After typically planning cruises about a year in advance and traveling with a large group, we decided to book a last minute getaway cruise and thought to try Celebrity for the first time aboard the Solstice. We set sail from Fort Lauderdale on January 15, 2012 to fairly rough seas, but Solstice handled the conditions well.
Embarkation was a breeze! Solstice was docked at Pier 25 in Port ...
We were expecting an experience much classier than the Carnival, but were rather disappointed. We are going to give Celebrity another channce, as we had already booked on The Solstice for April, even before this Equinox December 2011 cruise, so hope some of these problems will not occur again..
Embarkation: Booarding was slightly delayed, as it was just off a repositioning cruise, and they had ...
We are veteran cruisers of more than 75 cruises on a variety of lines, including being Elite members with Celebrity.
We received notification a few days before the cruise of delayed boarding due to the need for deep cleaning of the ship because of a norovirus outbreak on the Transatlantic crossing. We arrived at the pier about 3:15pm thinking we would miss much of the chaos only to find ...
This was my 7th cruise with Celebrity and unfortunately, not the cruise line I have come to know. My husband and I just returned from a 7 night cruise on the Solstice. While the Solstice is a beautiful ship, the service was seriously lacking. Our stateroom attendant never was around and had to remind her on several occasions of various needs we had. It was a Concierge Class room, although I was ...
This was our fifth consecutive Holiday cruise. We enjoy traveling as a family during the holidays, and booked two balcony cabins on deck 8, one for my wife and I, and one for our 19 and 21 year old sons enjoying a break from college. We have had many very positive experiences with Celebrity, both as a couple and a family and previously found Celebrity a step above similarly priced lines. We've ...
Cruise out of Fort Lauderdale to Western Caribbean on the Solstice Ship - I was very disappointed in the embarkation process for this trip. I there was a serious problem, the Virus, on the sailing from Spain to Ft Lauderdale and had to have the entire ship sanitized.
I was only notified the day prior to sailing that there would be a delay in embarkation, instead of 1:30 PM, it would start at ...
I checked out several different cruise reviews before heading out on the Celebrity Solstice for my kid's spring break trip. My husband couldn't join us due to work so I thought a cruise would be an easy vacaton. As a first-time cruiser, "single mom" travelling with two teenage kids, I found the embarkation really easy to figure out and the lines very manageable. We had a veranda stateroom which I ...
We arrived at the cruise port at noon. Embarkation was smooth. We were told that the main gangway had broken down and we would be entering the ship through the deck# 2 access. We brought 2 bottles of wine and a 12-pack of bottled water through security without a problem. We were onboard within 45 minutes. We went to the Oceanview Cafe [buffet] for lunch and to kill time. Our room was ready ...
First I want to say that this trip on Celebrity Solstice was one of the worst cruises out of 140 that I have taken. Celebrity cruise lines has treated me unfairly by selling me a trip advertised as spa at sea on AQ Aqua class. I did not sleep for the 7 nights that I was on the ship. Still suffering several weeks later from sleep deprivation im going to give a shorter review because I'm just tired ...
I just got back from a cruise on Celebrity Solstice. January 2-9th. I'd like to start off by saying cruising is not my favorite, and I was with extended family, so this was not the trip for me. I previously had cruised to Alaska On Princess and loved that trip, but this was a little different.
In addition, this was a critical time for my work, so having limited access to my phone & high ...