Celebrity Summit Review
Ship common areas were great, staff was fantastic, Royal Suite a bit of a letdown
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This is one of the original cruise routes from the 1980s connecting Bayonne, New Jersey, with Bermuda. Before Celebrity became Celebrity, it was known as Chandris and owned by some Greek entrepreneurs, and this was the original route. So there is some history in cruising between New Jersey and Bermuda.
We were very much looking for this second cruise of ours, in particular because it would allow us to explore Bermuda in the period of three days being there, rather than hopping island to island and only spending a day. And overall, the cruise did not let us down. The weather did not cooperate as much on Bermuda, and we are still working with Celebrity Cruises to so a better job controlling clouds and rain. The only gripe was the Royal Suite we stayed in, but more on that later. First a couple of misconceptions about the Celebrity Summit: We were in the suite class, so I cannot speak for non-suite class passenger experience, but simply put: The service was fantastic, and the food outstanding.The common spaces of the ship are in great shape, her age can only be seen in some details, but those rare minor. So I am not joining the "past her prime" chorus about this ship. We also made friends with others who had cruised her before and returned to her.
Embarkation in Bayonne: Better than with Oceania cruise on Dodge Island in Miami. Smoother process, better atmosphere. Great service on board the instance we set foot, in part because of the suite class attention we were getting.
Cabin Review
Royal Suite
Several gripes. The Royal Suite is the second highest suite quality on the Ship. It is dark. There is wasted space in the design by the dining table and entrance. The porthole in the bedroom is kind of gimmicky. Some chips and scrapes in the woodwork and the furniture. But here is the worst: The cabin creaked tremendously at night. We had to call the engineers to get rid of the worst of it (they sprayed WD40 in the joints of the wall and floor by the porthole in the bedroom). At first we escaped at night to the sofa bed in the living room, then I figured out how to load a white noise machine onto my laptop and we ran that software at night.