Celestyal Athens (Piraeus) Cruise Reviews

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Aft pool, Deck 10
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A delightful cruise in the end but a questionable beginning

Review for a Europe - Greek Isles Cruise on Celestyal Journey

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Lucky travelers from Oz
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

This review is primarily about our cruise sailing on the Journey, however it also describes our experience with Celestyal Cruises and sets the scene prior to sailing with them. We had not heard about Celestyal Cruises (CC) before and were enticed by a reasonably priced 14 night itinerary with great inclusions (premium drink package, gratuities and four excursions). We booked 16 months prior to ...
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Sail Date: October 2023


Journey review

Review for a Europe - Greek Isles Cruise on Celestyal Journey

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Mcatanzaro
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

Just got back from a 2 week trip. Overall experience was great. Few bad points worth mentioning but nothing that would change our minds to do another trip with this company. The bad: the excursion desk doesn’t have themselves together. We got an excursion ticket they had a different title than what we paid for. Once on the bus we were told the itinerary. Half the bus was ready to riot as ...
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Sail Date: October 2023

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Staff Made it Happen!

Review for a Europe - Greek Isles Cruise on Celestyal Journey

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Tesul1255
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

We actually had a great time on this cruise, although some of the reviews are pretty accurate with regard to the plumbing and mechanical challenges the boat had with hot water, water pressure, air, TV, water leaks, toilet, etc. But, it was a bit of a shakedown cruise for the company and I’m sure they will work through all of that if they haven’t already. When we arrived the embarkation process ...
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Sail Date: September 2023


Shame about the water in the cabin

Review for a Europe - Greek Isles Cruise on Celestyal Journey

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Greekvoyager
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

We had been on the Celestyal Crystal in 2019, and decided to repeat it as the itinerary was much better and we love Greece. Anyway, we had a deck 10 junior suite with balcony. embarkation was quick and easy, the cabin was fine, we thought. We got up on Sunday to find no hot water, cured by maintenance after 30 mins! Monday and Tuesday mornings it was barely lukewarm. Wednesday no hot water at ...
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Sail Date: September 2023


Overall great experience

Review for a Greece Cruise on Celestyal Crystal

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sunshine3860
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

Overall we were happy with this cruise. Our cabin was spacious and very clean. The food was inconsistent. Breakfasts and lunches were always very good, but the dinner options were either very good or disappointing. We chose the specialty dining at 60 euros a person for our last night and while it was delicious, it didn't blow us away. Wifi and cell service was extra and a hassle to set up and ...
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Sail Date: May 2023


18 days 3 continents cruise

Review for a Europe - Eastern Mediterranean Cruise on Celestyal Crystal

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manhk
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

A Greece based cruise company that specializes on cruising the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece islands. Their ship is old, actually 42 years old, but still in good condition. It is small compared to all the other companies ships. If you look up the history of this ship, you might decide to go with another company. My advice is don’t, cause we thoroughly enjoyed this trip. This was a back to back ...
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Sail Date: December 2022


We Had a Great Experience

Review for a Greece Cruise on Celestyal Crystal

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barryescott
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

Overview: We would like to thank Celestyal Cruises for giving us a 125% credit for our original March 2020 booking. They are a high integrity company. We are world-travelers but novice-cruisers so this review describes our experience but does not compare it to other cruises. In general, we had a wonderful experience and would recommend the ship and the itinerary to you. Those things that ...
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Sail Date: August 2022


EXCELLENT VALUE FOR MONEY

Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on Celestyal Crystal

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Radford007
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

I had the pleasure of cruising on this ship in June 2021. It is very affordable with the inclusive drinks package and included shore excursions. It had rigid Covid 19 rules. The ship has no pretensions of being 5 star but having previously sailed on luxury ships I have no reservations in stating that this was one of my best ever cruises. The reason; the crew as every member that I ...
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Sail Date: June 2021


Great itinerary - good value!

Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on Celestyal Crystal

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YTOcruisers
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We chose this 7 days cruise because of the ports - Cairo, Jerusalem/Bethlehem, Cyprus, Rhodes and Ephesus. We also chose it because of the great value for what we paid as the price included 3 excursions (Cairo, Rhodes and Ephesus), gratuities and drinks (albeit you could also pay for “premium drinks”). We had read the reviews on the Celestyal Crystal and had “lowered the bar” for our ...
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Sail Date: February 2020


Amazing destinations on a nice ship.

Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on Celestyal Crystal

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Clearwaterteacher
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

My husband is a travel consultant and found out about this cruise at a training. We have always wanted to visit these amazing destinations...Greece, Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey and Rhodes. The ship was not the newest, but extremely clean. The people working on the ship were extremely friendly. Although there were people from many countries on the ship English was used for announcements, ...
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Sail Date: December 2019


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