Celebrity Century Review

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Celebrity Century - 5 Days In The Sun!

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Celebrity Century
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lbom
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Mar 2010

JBom (my DH) and I are recently back from our Celebrity Century cruise to the Caribbean... 5 days in the sun with a little fun! Ports of call included Ocho Rios, Jamaica and Georgetown, Grand Cayman.

This was our first Celebrity cruise and after being on Oceania in '08 to the Med, which I've previously written about here on this blog, we found that we were comparing every Celebrity experience to that of Oceania. Admittedly, the two cannot be compared. Oceania is considered to be in the mid-luxury group of ships, while Celebrity sails in the market one step below. I would say that we would have gone on an Oceania cruise in the Caribbean to escape the Michigan winter, but we chose Celebrity based on the recommendation of our outstanding TA, Esther, as well as the fact that Celebrity offers 5-day cruises and the shortest Oceania offers is 10 days. And well, in looking for a quick mini-break, we decided to give Celebrity a shot.... and we are glad that we did!

The trip down from DTW was uneventful and we arrived earlier than expected. Fortunately, no weather delays on either end, so that was a good way to start out the trip. We planned to take a taxi right to the Port of Miami to meet the ship, but ended up signing up for the Celebrity coach transfer. The price was about $13pp, so the price was reasonable and the benefit was that our luggage would be dropped off in front of our cabin and we didn't need to worry about it. We decided to sign up for the transfer and the agent said that the coach would arrive in 5-10 minutes and was "on its way". With nowhere to go, we sat and waited... almost 50 minutes before the coach showed up. Obviously we should have questioned "5-10 minutes", but the agent's job is to fill the busses and once we had signed up, we just had to wait it out. JBom and I were not happy about this delay, but we took it in stride and chatted with the rest of the guests that were waiting with us.

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Good location, but noisy inbetween the cabins, good bathroom and shower.

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