This was our first cruise, being new to this type of holiday we were looking for a cruise line that looked to provide a mix of formal and informal, on a nice modern ship with good itineraries.

Celebrity and the equinox seemed to fit the bill.

We were slightly apprehensive as the old cruise cliches kept coming to mind, we are both in our early forties and had visions of being the youngest on board and feeling out of place this myth was immediately displaced, our fellow cruisers were a mixture of young and old and a very friendly bunch. Read more