Celebrity Millennium Review

Even 11 days is not enought

Review for the Southern Caribbean Cruise on Celebrity Millennium
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lidodave
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Nov 2009
Cabin: Inside Stateroom 11

I have cruised seven times before. Most of them on Carnival and NCL. This was my first time to cruise on Celebrity, and I had heard so much about it that I was very excited to move up in the "Cruising Ladder".We are in our mid 50's and expected an older demographic on this ship, that was fine with us. When we arrived on the ship, the age range was exactly as we expected and we were happy with that. We did not feel that all of the hype about the quality of the cruise line was met. This does not mean the cruise wasn't nice and we would never travel with Celebrity again, but areas of food and entertainment left us disappointed. I am sure that many disagree, but as I continue I will make my comments in each area.

We arrived in San Juan two days before sailing. We stayed at a small guest house in Condado, Alleli. This was an older guesthouse on the beach. We paid $80 a night, which is wonderful for a room in this area. The building is old, but clean. The room we had was large enough, but again older. We expected this from reviews on tripadvisor that we had read. If you want luxury this is not the place, but there was a deck on the back of the house that was very nice to sit on and watch the ocean. We were next to a large hotel/casino called the La Concha. The Marriott was about a block away with a nice casino. We had many restaurants to walk to and the bus was a convenient and inexpensive way to travel to Old San Juan. It was 75 cents one way. Old San Juan is a great way to spend a day before or after the cruise. We were very happy to be able to arrive several days early. I would highly recommend arriving at least the night before, as most people that traveled to San Juan the day of the cruise, were very tired, and some had suffered delays in airports, making for a very long day.

On the day of embarkation, we checked out of the guesthouse at noon and took a taxi to the port. We arrived before 1PM and were surprised to be able to check in and board the ship! There were very few people arriving, so we had no wait! We were very excited and the ship was just as nice as we had hoped. We went to the Ocean Grille for a lunch buffet that was very good. One thing that we noticed was that the bar staff did not bother you as often with their "drink specials". This was a pleasant break from the typical routine on emarkation day. In fact this was the pattern throughout the entire cruise. We were in our room by 1:30 and our luggage arrived soon after. The inside room that we had was very typical of any other stateroom that we have had, nice, clean and enough storage. Our cabin steward was Nemia, and she was a sweet heart.

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Inside Stateroom 11

Cabin 11

Nice Room. Inside cabin. Good storage. Fairly quiet

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