Celebrity Solstice March 1st, 2009

Just back from a cruise on Celebrity's newest ship, the Solstice. Had a great time as always. You know the old saying, "A bad cruise is better than a good day at work". This cruise wasn't bad, but in our view, overall not great either. We have only this cruise to judge the entire Celebrity line, so of course, we know that we could be dead wrong on some of our disappointments. In fact we have many with this cruise. This was our 22nd cruise, 1 Celebrity, 14 Royal Caribbean, 2 Princess, and 5 Carnival. Instead of a day by day review that I'm used to writing, I'll compare like and dislikes to our favorite cruiseline, Royal Caribbean.

We found that Celebrity does do a lot of things right, so that's where I'll start. The things we liked: Celebrity's check in, as is RCL's, is extremely easy. We arrived at Port Everglades about 10:50 and were quickly escorted to Celebrity's Elite section that boards first. After a short wait, we boarded at 11:40 and were greeted with a glass of champagne. Way to start a vacation! Read more