First, some general comments. My husband and I are in our early thirties, and we cruised with our four year old son and my mother and her husband. We're Elite Celebrity cruisers and we have sailed Summit before, but not since the Solsticization. We generally prefer the S class ships, but chose these sailings since they were inexpensive and fit the time frame we had available. This was our first back to back cruise- we did the repositioning cruise from Cape Liberty, then the first Caribbean roundtrip San Juan.

We had been worried before this trip because of the Norovirus outbreak, but it was completely gone by the time we were onboard. Guests could serve themselves at the buffet, bread on tables, etc. There was no sickness on either leg that we heard of. I did see a red dot on our cabin door so I assume that there had been an ill person in there, but the deep cleaning must have worked because none of us got sick.

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