Celebrity Century Review

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Sail Date: Mar 2012
Cabin: Concierge Class

You just know it in your water that even before you get on the ship, this adventure isn't going to be a smooth one. Travelling from Edinburgh via heathrow to Los Angeles for an overnight stay there, before going on to Honolulu the next day. We stopped over at the Westin just outside LAX, the direction to find the shuttle to get us to the hotel was very vague and we never saw the shuttle company anywhere. Fortunately we did get the hotel shuttle and the thought of a nice relaxing night in a soft Westin bed. Wrong jets coming in every five minutes kept me awake and i had a totel of three hours sleep. Positive though, at least i didn't sleep in for the flight to honolulu. Amercian Airlines check in procedures shocked me though, compared to British Airways this company is a joke and fortunately we had a print out of my meal allocation from BA or we would have had nothing.

Landing in Honolulu, we saw the guy holding up the A4 bit of paper with the words facing him, we all gathered to have our cases piled on a cart and with one guy pushing it. it became unstable and several cases fell off, honestly we would have been quicker carrying our own luggage to the shuttle bus. We waited ages for the shuttles to arrive, 2x10 ten seater, but one of them was a nine seater, so i had to go on the other bus, just as well as my case was on the bus i was on and the wifes cases was on her shuttle. I had expected my cases to be with her shuttle and i checked just in curiosity, low and behold my case was there. So can you imagine if i did sit along with my wife my case would have been on the sidewalk until the next shuttle appeared, I waited five minutes for my wifes shuttle to show up. and by that time my case could have walked away on its own. Its only by good fortune I wasn't punching anyone then. When we made our way to the terminal there was no signs notices to advise us what to do and where to go, pathetic organisation.

Then when finally aboard we could even get to our cabins as they weren't ready by 3.00pm. what a shock we got when we got to our cabins, the thing is so narrow, we could just get by between the bulkhead and the bed and the bed was fit for a midget. the Cafe food was never hot, i don't particularly like to queue up for two slice of toast in the morning, when the toast is at the end, a lot of passengers felt annoyed at me doing this, I heard a few comments, but I certainly prefer the buffet arrangement such as on the Rhapsody of the Seas. The previous review was correct out the chiller not working and crew working on it without a care about setting up a safe working area. I wasn't impressed by the chief engineer on board it was no shock that the century didn't leave port when it was supposed too for mechancial reasons. The constant showing off passess and picture ID to get on the ship was a pain, 4 times in a matter of yards, plus sterilising hands, it will influence a future amercian cruise because of it.

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Concierge Class

Cabin C1

1025, don't book it, in fact don't cruise on this ship or Cruise line, they are amatuers

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