This was our second cruise with Celebrity, the first was on the Millennium. We are in our mid fifties, and have cruised for the last 18 years.
Arrival & Embarkation-- We flew to San Diego the day before, stayed at the Holiday Inn Old Town, nice and well located, and has an airport shuttle. Since we made all our own arrangements, we purchased a transfer voucher from Celebrity, and returned to SD airport around noon, to the baggage area in American Airlines. We were directed to leave our luggage, and sent out to wait to board a bus to Ensenada. We received a bottle of water and a granola bar as we boarded. The trip took three hours,with no problems at the border crossing, but when we arrived at the Coral Hotel in Ensenada we had to wait in the bus for about another 30 minutes while they did the boarding passes and credit card work bus by bus, then we were loaded up onto another bus and driven a short drive to the pier, and then waited in line to board the Infinity.
Once on board, at approx 4:30pm, we received our welcome glass of champagne and a personal escort to our room. We had a balcony cabin, and loved it. We went up to the Mast Bar on deck 11, to a pre-arranged meeting spot with some of the people from our Cruise Critic Party. It was fun finally meeting the others that we had been talking with via computer for the last six months. We sailed at 9pm.