Our group of 5 booked 3 rooms on Millie to Alaska this August. Two Concierge class rooms and one Ocean view room. Our itinerary was from Vancouver to Seward with an extra day in Vancouver and Anchorage. Most of us had not cruised before and read reviews and messages here on Cruise Critic voraciously before the cruise so we could have an idea as to what to expect.

First - Celebrity has no control over the weather. It rained and/or was cloudy virtually the entire trip. When asked how our trip was when we got back, our half joking response has been "saw a lot of mountain bottoms and not a lot of mountain tops". The temps were a cool 59 degrees almost every day but we actually considered that a plus coming from the 100 degrees we left. This turned out to be very important during the cruise as we could never get the temperature of the room cool enough, even after complaining to the steward.

Our full day in Vancouver was the only sunny day we had. We rode around the city in a rental and cruised through Stanley Park. Our embarkation the next day could not have been any smoother. We chose to arrive at 11:30am and were on the ship by 11:45. Security did confiscate an extension cord but even that took only a few minutes. We were told by many that the lines would be much different had we waited another hour. Read more