Celebrity Eclipse Review

Over Rated vs Reality

Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Celebrity Eclipse
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Anthonyz
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Apr 2016

Choose this cruise for the itinerary and it's rating with Vacations To Go as a 5.5 experience. Beware this is a dual class service ship although Celebrity will not admit it. You are treated different if you are not booked in a suite. In fact your dining options and seating are based on a criteria that is so convoluted but so well finessed by your host or hostess that you will not see it at first. Who really gets those window seats (every night) and why is it impossible to get a seat between 7pm and 8pm without waiting for a half hour if you choose open seating? Take a close look at the menu and the food and soon you realize that you could be dining in assisted living housing, eating bland food but presented colorfully . Look closer at the cheap cuts of meat and low quality ingredients you may as well be in an assisted living facility.

From the minute you book, watch out for the endless barge of emails trying to get you to buy extremely expensive beverage upgrades and even restaurant upgrades. On board you will get invitations to buy everything from watches to purses, massages to teeth whitening. Please do you homework before buying the art for sale. They are at least honest enough to tell you that they are giclees (a 12 ink printing process) but giclees are a very inexpensive product to produce and is a Buyer Beware purchase even if it is "enhanced" by the artist.

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Flam

Saved 1/3 the price by booking independently

Geiranger

the excursions were too expensive and the town is very small

Alesund

too small of a town

Stavanger

everything you want to do is right next to the port

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