Our family has just finished a 14 day cruise from Sydney to Auckland on board Solstice. It was our first time on a Solstice class vessel and our second Celebrity cruise, our previous cruises having been with Oceania and Azamara. This cruise was on the largest ship by far that we have ever cruised on.
We have cruised a very similar itinerary before and highly recommend it, although on this occasion the weather was much better, and the seas were largely calm even crossing the Tasman.
My brief observations: