Celebrity Summit Review
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Right from the start, I want to tell everyone who reads this that if you are thinking of taking a Celebrity cruise, go for it! This cruise line has outstanding service, excellent food, and the Summit is a beautiful, welcoming, and very clean and well-maintained ship.
Background information: This was my 29th cruise. I am in my mid-50s and traveled with my 86-year-old mother who has been on 40 cruises. This is the first cruise in 25 years that I have done with just my mom; we usually cruise with my husband and 2 teenage daughters. In fact, during this repositioning cruise, my mom put down a deposit for my husband to take the return repositioning cruise (Bayonne to San Juan on October 19).
Other cruise lines we have taken besides Celebrity include Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, Holland America and Princess. We are Captain's Club members; I am Select and my mother is Elite, and on this cruise we went to several lovely Elite events, including 2 cocktail parties, a backstage tour, wine tasting, afternoon tea, a nightly cocktail hour and a daily Continental breakfast. We also went to the Cruise Critic party, which was the largest Cruise Critic party I have ever attended.
Cabin Review
The cabin was very comfortable. We had a veranda cabin, 8037, right outside the forward elevators. The room had lots of mirrors, which gave it the impression of being larger, and had so much storage we couldn't use it all! If you need storage, this is the ship for you -- whether it's the large closet, 6 in-closet drawers, storage above the safe, above the minibar, on both sides of the vanity, in both night tables, and both to the side of and beneath the sink in the bathroom. The bed was very comfortable, especially if you like the swaddling sensation of a tightly made bed.