Embarkation was a breeze however unknown to us they had mixed myself up with my six year old daughter on our cruise cards. This was discovered at our first port when I tried to get back on the ship and they wanted to know where my child was. I did a split second panic and said well she had better be in the kids club where I had signed her in to. We realised the mistake and took steps to fix ...
Recently sailed on the Celebrity Solstice, on the first leg of a repositioning cruise from Australia to Hawaii and ultimately back to North America. Our journey ended in Hawaii, where we stayed on for another 5 nights enjoying the sights of Honolulu.
I will say from the outset, the Solstice is a floating palace full of wonderful places to explore and fun to be had. We enjoyed every minute on ...
Embarkation We were among the lucky ones who received an Email from celebrity that notified us about the delay in boarding so we extended our time on Waikiki beach and took advantage of our hotel's courtesy clean up room before heading over to the pier. when we arrived at around 5:30 pm there were no lines and check-in was quick. We boarded just as the announcement was made that the staterooms ...
Solstice Hawaii to Ensenada, April 25th - May 6th.
The week before we arrived for our cruise from Hawaii to Honolulu, we were informed by Celebrity by email that the ship had the norovirus on board, and we would only be allowed to come on board after 2:30 on embarcation day. That was fine, and I appreciate the information as well as the care taken to sanitize the ship for the next set of ...
As first time cruisers (longer than 3 days on a small boat!), I guess we were pretty excited ( and my husband would say "huge understatement!") for the whole year leading up to our trip. I did so much research on cruise critic, and the celebrity website, that I felt I knew the ship before we even got on it!
I have read so many differing reviews, I have to ask myself...were these people on the ...
I have cruised many times before on many cruise lines. This was our first Celebrity cruise and I had heard it was a step above Princess and HAL. I am 49 and was traveling with my 75 year old disabled mom. We had cruised to Hawaii before on the Carnival Spirit from Vancouver several years ago.
My mom had a stroke 10 years ago and is unable to walk unaided due to her balance issues. She ...
We sailed on the Millenium on 10-22-2012 from Ensenada to Hawaii. I will start off with the bad part of the trip-Day one. In order to take this itinerary you must check in at the San Diego airport, be bused to the San Diego port, wait for hours at the San Diego port and take a bus to Ensenada(about a 3 hour adventure).We arrived early for check-in at the airport and found only one Celebrity ...
This was our 20th cruise together. Although we have cruised on Crystal, Seven Seas, Cunard (QM II Maiden Voyage), Royal Viking Sun, Seabourn Sun and Princess, we now pretty much stick to either Celebrity or HAL. Our previous cruise was last fall on the Noordam from NYC to the Caribbean. We have had four cruises on Celebrity, including the Zenith, Infinity, Millennium and Summit. We chose this ...
We arrived at the port at 11:30 and were onboard by 11:45- no lines.
We loved our room with the extra large balcony but had a great deal of trouble with the poor circulation that brought tobacco smoke into our room. The staff were terrific in trying to control this problem by sprinkling a deodorizer on the carpet and then providing us an air cleaner for the rest of the days. My main complaint ...
This was our second cruise, first on Celebrity. We flew in to San Diego the morning of the cruise, had purchased transfers through Celebrity so after getting our luggage found the cruise reps outside. We were on the first bus to the pier, about 12:30pm. Our luggage had gone ahead on a truck so we only had to deal with our carryons. Check in was as quickly as we could walk through the various ...