Celebrity Infinity Review

Which to choose, RCI or Celebrity

Review for Alaska Cruise on Celebrity Infinity
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Craig Cole
First Time Cruiser • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Jun 2010
Traveled with children

This was the seventh cruise for my wife and me. The last five had been with Royal Caribbean, a cruise line which we have come to love. For this Alaska cruise, we thought it would be interesting to try their sister line, Celebrity. This then is not so much a cruise review as a comparison of Celebrity and RCI.

EMBARKATION and DISEMBARKATION We have never had any real cause for complaint in this category. There was the usual short line up to get on the boat (we always try to arrive an hour before the earliest announced boarding time), but Celebrity does get points for an extremely speedy and efficient disembarkation. One tip for families who have spent the night before the cruise in a downtown Seattle hotel. The taxi fare to the dock is about seven dollars. Your hotel may urge you to take a "shuttle" in a town car or limousine which will cost you ten dollars each.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS Celebrity Infinity seemed a bit "institutional" compared to the RCI ships on which we have cruised. We missed the interesting art displays in the corridors and the stairwells, and the extravagant atrium which had been a feature on all our RCI ships. Having said that, additional art works seemed to appear on the walls as the cruise went on. My family think I was hallucinating, but I suspect that the ship was in the process of replacing or rearranging its art collection. I still feel that the overall decor was more to my liking on the various RCI ships on which we have cruised. The Deck 10 Oceanview Cafe restaurant on Celebrity Infinity was in my opinion much less attractive than the Windjammer restaurants on RCI. Celebrity has attempted to add food stations, but there is still a bit of a high school cafeteria feel to the layout. The decor of the main dining room was roughly the same on both cruise lines, and we certainly couldn't fault the service. There have been several comments on this web site that the Infinity was showing its age with threadbare carpets and rusting iron work. We saw no evidence of this, but overall RCI gets top rating in the First Impressions category.

Cabin Review

We were sometimes aware of the TV in the adjoining cabin. In the future we will avoid cabins with adjoining doors.

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