We spent 3 days in Vancouver sightseeing prior to embarking. The weather was great in Vancouver and the experience was really worth the additional days. Vancouver works hard at being the winter olympics city this year and it shows.Embarkation was a bit slow at Canada Place compared to the one hour debarkation from start to airport at Balantyne port. We were tempted to get the express check-out to avoid the wait but save 38.00 per person and did this ourselves. They let us get off early and orderly according to our flight at 8:05a. We took a taxi to the airport with 4 of us in each. The cost including tip is 50.00 for all 4. We were so early that we had to wait at the airport for 4 hours.The ship was spectacular, very pretty and very clean. I can tell that all the carpet has been replaced and they did not have time to complete the job on deck 11. The Ocean buffet room carpet even had fuzz coming up from being walked on the first day. The cinema on Deck 3 had some bad chairs, probably not made for ample behinds and therefore several crashed, repaired and recrashed. They had Catholic masses and religious services in this cinema daily. A very nice touch to me.Our room was spacious and nice with a very large port hole window. Our family members had excellent balcony rooms with views and chairs ...Foods had a revamped menu and the staff asked us over and over for our opinions. We were polite! It's a hit and miss thing in the dining room. May be it was due to our personal taste. They are attempting to do too much and going out of their comfort zone by preparing foods with French, Vietnamese, Italian twists without the true knowledge of such cuisine. None of us attempted the American dishes and we tried everything else. Fish was very fresh and excellent. If you would like your steak medium, order rare except for thick cut like tournedos or filet mignon. I love the dessert in the Ocean buffet. A lot more choices of foods in the buffet but I only spent breakfast and one lunch up there. Fabulous dessert! Here again they attempt foods with foreign flair without success. As my ship must have over 50% of Asians coming from Vancouver and Canada, they made an Oriental breakfast: laughable and nice try!Entertainment was so so and geared toward the mature crowd. Karaoke, Capella, symphony type, latino, easy listening stuff. They do not have crazy funky choices for the younger crowd, a bit sedate. They advertise same prices for their shops as in the ports and that is real. It's better to get souvenir on the ship without having to pay taxes than shopping around.Excursions: We did not use their services. We can bargain better on land as we had a large group.Spa: I almost got their service for teeth whitening on the days that they had auctions, but they made me mad. I am a die hard Ebayer and they did auction all wrong. They called my room statinmg that I won but must pay a higher price: WHAT!!!! Probably communication issue coupled with auction ignorance. I complained and they called and never followed up: madder!Service was good on the ship. We took two previous low cost cruises with Carnival and must say that Carnival service was better overall. The Millenium is such a gorgeous ship but I'd rather pay for excellent service and foods, not decorum on the Carnival. Would I recommend Millenium Celebrity? If the price is right as beauty is not everything.