After a very stressful encounter with US Immigration at Miami, and I have to say it takes a special kind of bully to treat people with such contempt and disregard knowing they are unable to say or do anything about it. Our American friends reassured us that they receive the same treatment. Shame these officials seem to forget we are tourists and visitors to the States and not criminals. Anyway, rant over, we had a restful 24 hours in beautiful Fort Lauderdale at the Gallery One Doubletree Hotel, and if you have a few spare hours in Fort Lauderdale, it's well worth spending a couple of relaxing hours on the inter-coastal waterway on the narrated water taxi ride. We then embarked on the Celebrity Equinox for our second cruise on this particular ship. Although we have completed over forty cruises, this was our first Transatlantic crossing.

The embarkation process at Fort Lauderdale was hassle free, speedy and efficient, and as is often the case, we did not have to wait too long before our cabin was ready.

Just like on our previous journey on this ship, the cabin was clean and well decorated, but there are still not enough drawers in the room. We had a concierge balcony cabin this time, as keen football fans, we were relieved to see there was a Sky Sports news channel on the to. We are trying to speed up the process of obtaining Elite Plus within Celebrity’s Loyalty programme. Read more