Both good and bad – this was the 2023 repositioning cruise from Miami to Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao returning to Bayonne, NJ. Overall, the cruise was excellent however there are certainly some very significant highlights to mention, both pros and cons. First, we were in Aqua Class. Great location at the top of the ship Aft. No one above us and the buffet and outdoor bar below but the cabin was ...
We have sailed on Celebrity several times, and this was our third TransAtlantic cruise. We selected this particular ship and sailing for the ports of call. We have wanted to see different parts of the British Isles, and wanted to finish the cruise in the U.K. so we could stay in London for the Coronation.
BOTTOM LINE: If you want to skip to the high-level overview, this was an EXCELLENT cruise. ...
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This was our 4th Celebrity cruise (29th overall for me, 30th overall for my husband) - we'd previously sailed on Equinox (sister ship), Constellation, and Apex. We had cancelled a Bermuda cruise on Celebrity Summit in June 2022, so this cruise was what we rebooked instead. We had never done a Transatlantic cruise and all of the port stops were new for us.
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This was our 5th cruise with Celebrity, 1st time on the Silhouette, and 35th cruise overall. For the most part we’ve always been very happy with our cruise experience on previous Celebrity cruises on the Solstice and Equinox. Maybe a dozen kids on this sailing, which was probably due to school being in session and a 10-day sailing. Nothing against kids onboard, our daughter grew up on ...
Traveled with son/wife and grandson/wife.
Grandson's wife was first time cruiser. Very excited.
Overall, we all enjoyed the cruise, but the grandson/wife will take their two teenagers on something else next time.
The passengers were definitely older. Recommended RCarib. Better suited to their family.
Thoroughly enjoyed the specialty restaurants, but would not choose Le Petit again ...
Service was a 10 everywhere. They got a little pushy with the drinks on the last couple of nights. The comedian and musician were fun, the production shows were so-so but it was obvious the cast members put a lot of work into them. "Neil Diamond" was good, but the soul singer and the cello player were just not up to standard.
I actually had inedible food in the main dining room on two nights: ...
We booked this cruise back in July of 2022 because we kept hearing great things about Celebrity. For the most part the service was good outside of the main dining room but quality of food was about as low as you could go, including the specialty restaurant. Fruit was hard and zero taste, meat on the buffet was always a mystery because of the amount of sauce that they used to cover it up. Fatty, ...
Needed a short get away.
We took my wife's daughters.
Liked how you go through the check n process - very smooth.
Life boat drill - watch the video and go to your muster station to check in.
Key west was nice - lots of walking as I got turned around a few times looking for places.
There are a lot of bars are there and Hemingway seemed to go to every one of them.
Hemingway house ...
We took this cruise as the second part of our b2b.
We are happy for X and normally do cruises of 7+days. So this is the first short cruise we have sailed.
The vibe and guests changed drastically from what we are used to. Our 10-days sailing was different, younger guests and families.
But on this cruise, WOW….. it was not the celebrity guests we are used to.
So many families and ...
We are seasoned X cruisers. We had never sailed on Sil and wanted to try her. We booked this cruise as a b2b. 10-days+4-days.
On this cruise, the start of our b2b, we had visited all ports of call before.
We had a concierge class cabin on deck 10. Same cabin for both cruises.
Cabin attendant was perfect, everything was taken care of and always nicely laid.
This sailing had lots of ...