While my wife and I are Diamond Plus members on Royal Caribbean, we had never sailed on Celebrity. We chose the Infinity as we wanted a Panama Canal crossing and RCL did not have one available when we could go this year. Thanks to advice from this forum, we called Celebrity and obtained our Celebrity Captains Club Elite status based on our RCL Diamond Plus level. We had originally booked a concierge class stateroom and noted about a month prior to boarding, the price had been reduced. I called Celebrity and asked for some money back, but since we had already made our final payment, this was not an option. What was an option, was upgrading to a Sky Suite at a greatly reduced price, so we did.

Embarkation: While we thought we were getting to the pier early (11:15), the place was jammed. The line for the suite check in was packed, but the Elite line had only 4 guests and so we jumped into that line. Check-in took about 10 minutes. We did not receive our bags till about 5:30PM.

Ship Overall: The ship was very clean, but in some places it was showing its age. I think the overall design is better than the RCL Radiance class ship (which is one of our favorites), but the decor on the Radiance class is more elegant. Read more