About Us: We are in our mid-60's, both retired. This was our 5th cruise, 3rd time on Celebrity. We live in northeast Ohio. On this cruise, we traveled with our daughter (DD) and her boyfriend (BF), (collectively referred to as J&J), who live near Washington, D.C., and, as it turned out, were both on furlough from the National Institiutes of Health for much of this cruise. We booked back in January through their TA using the matching gift card credit, plus Celebrity threw in $300 OBC per cabin.

We usually pick cruises based on the itinerary and Canada/New England was a long-time dream of mine. DH prefers round trips cruises, but we found this one was a bit too long.

Pre-cruise: On Thursday we drove to MD to spend the night with J&J. On Friday we loaded everything into and on top of our SUV and drove to Elizabeth, NJ. We spent the night at the Courtyard by Marriott We chose to pay the extra $10 for breakfast, and got $30 worth of breakfast for that price. This sort of made up for part of the $35+ in taxes added to the base rate of the room. Read more