This was our first cruise with Celebrity, but we have been on several others with Sitmar, Princess, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean. We sailed out of Dover on June 30, and disembarked in Copenhagen on July 14. We visited Oslo, Gdansk, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn, Visby, Warnemunde, and Copenhagen. On this cruise my parents, who have cruised with Celebrity before as well as the other lines I mentioned previously, accompanied us. We booked through a travel agent and had Celebrity make all air/ground transportation reservations.

Embarkation: We flew from LA to London (Heathrow) on a direct BA flight. It was good, and we received all our luggage without incident. Our first problem was that we could not locate the Celebrity representative to take us to our bus transfer to Dover. He was making a phone call about 100 feet from the meeting point. Once we found him we waited about an hour in the arrival terminal for more people to join us. We then were walked (with all our baggage, in the rain) about 1/4 mile to the bus. There was quite a bit of traffic, so we were a bit concerned about our late arrival to the port. When we arrived at the port our luggage was taken to our staterooms while we checked in. The process went smoothly, especially since there weren't any other transfers arriving. We boarded the ship, dropped off our carry-on luggage, and went to make reservations at Oceanliners, their specialty restaurant.

Stateroom: We had a Concierge Class cabin on deck 8. It came with the usual amenities listed on the site: evening canapEs, priority tender passes, veranda, robes, fruit, flowers, champagne, etc. The champagne tasted like rust, so it was promptly poured out. The fruit and flowers were nice, and were replaced every other day or so. We had breakfast delivered several times, but we didn't like any of the "concierge" items; we tried them all and none were great. We asked if we could have something else instead of the nightly canapEs, such as shrimp cocktail or cheese and crackers, but our steward said it wasn't possible. Unfortunately this resulted in wasted food each night, since the canapEs were usually stale or soggy. The balcony was nice, and we enjoyed sitting out there and watching the ship come into and leave port. It was average ship balcony size, two chairs and a table fit nicely. The closet was a nice size, but there weren't enough hangers for a 14-night cruise. Our room steward, Marta, gave us more right away. All in all, the cabin was decent and suited our basic needs for the cruise. I found it a bit small, but it worked. Read more