Celebrity Constellation Review

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Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Celebrity Constellation
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First Time Cruiser • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Aug 2010
Cabin: Deluxe Ocean View with Balcony 2A

Getting There It all started on our eastern Med cruise on Equinox. We find that it makes packing to get off our ship easier if we have another cruise lined up, so we signed up for Constellation's Baltic cruise and took advantage of the OBC provided. When we got home, we talked with our long-time friends Dave and Sylvia about coming with us and they agreed. We had signed up for a 2A veranda cabin (7173), and they got a good deal on a Concierge Class cabin three doors away. The two couples flew separately, with Sylvia using Frequent Flyer miles to get a business class routing with connections while Gail and I got a great price on a coach seat direct from PHL to AMS by booking through BMI, which codeshared the flights operated by US Airways. We got to Amsterdam a day before Dave and Sylvia and took a Schiphol Hotel Shuttle to the Fita in the museum district. We had stayed at the Fita before, so it was like coming home. The hotel is in a primarily residential area, walking distance from several tram lines and near a good Indonesian restaurant called the Orient and it has an elevator, something of a rarity in small Amsterdam hotels.

The day after we arrived, we went downtown to see Sail 2010, Amsterdam's ship festival held along the shore around the Passenger Terminal, and then met some Dutch friends at the Van Loon museum, a mansion located on one of the canals. We had dinner with them at a wonderful restaurant called the Dauphine, somewhat out of the way, but on one of the tram lines which stopped at the end of the Fita's street.

Embarkation We met our friends at the hotel on Sunday morning and the Fita ordered a van to take us and our luggage to the ship; total cost €45. Because of Amsterdam's Sail 2010 program, Celebrity was unable to use the downtown Passenger Terminal for embarkation, docking the ship instead at Ceres Port, a container port west of Amsterdam. Embarkation went very smoothly, considering the change of port. We got an extra bonus because Ceres Port served as the holding area for tall ships leaving Sail in downtown Amsterdam and we got to see some of them from our balcony.

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Deluxe Ocean View with Balcony 2A

Cabin 2A

7173 is an oversized balcony room, and while the large veranda was very nice, the room itself was noticeably smaller than our Concierge Class normal-sized veranda on the Summit. We really missed the small shelves near the desk, which we were told are unique to Concierge Class. On the other hand, there is now a storage area over the flat screen television that we did not have on Summit. Be aware that the view directly down the side of the ship is impeded by an awning over the extended balconies on Deck 6, although the awning ends at 7171 next door. Also be aware that the front part of the balcony can be seen from some balconies above, and through some of the floor portholes in the Deck 10 restaurant.

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