Well let me just say besides the bad flights both coming and going, Celebrity Silhouette was defintely the rose between the thorns!

We arrived almost a day late in Venice (thank God we decided to fly out a day early) because of bad storms in Philly and had a three hour delay, with missing our connection in Paris (and staying about 7-8 hours there until we could catch the next flight). We got to the hotel with just enough time to check in and sleep since we were travelling for almost 24 hours! Got to spend the morning walking around Venice which is probably our most favorite city on this itinerary. Have to admit though Venice is hard to get around and not only because of its many winding streets that you can lost pretty quick. But there is really no EASY way to get to the port from the main part of town. We paid a "professional porter" to carry our bags through town to the Alilaguna Boats, which then boated us to the main port where we met the Celebrity Silhouette.

With such a rough start we were hoping to get on board rather quick. This is probably the only really bad part of the entire cruise, but we had to stand in this long line with all our luggage to drop it off which is across the street from the actual cruise ship. And I won;t even blame Celebrity, but I will tell you...whats with all the pushing, shoving and line cutting by all these older people who think they deserve to be ahead of you?? I will never understand it! Plus having these two older women constantly pushing in front of us and then yelling at us...they cut in front of at least 2-3 groups of people in front of them! So beware of cranky old senior citizens who think that because they are 80 they don't have to stand in lines! Read more