We have cruised quite a lot with various lines, most often choosing Holland America or Princess. We tend to go more for the itinerary than the ship, we have gone north quite a bit,as well as further away, enjoying Japan last year.
The round Britain was a bit of a change, and although we weren't expecting Holland America, the Eclipse was a bit of a shock, supposed luxury level you don't expect trying to wring every extra penny out of you wherever they can.
We mostly like to.take our time and do our on thing in port, but the supposed 'port talks'.we're solely excursion sales pitches with no actual.information. All other cruise lines we have been on provided a port guide in the room each evening, not the case with Celebrity. They did actually print one, but you had to.queue at the desk (and there was always queue), to get it. We didn't go find this out until.the 10th day, and this was something almost no one else we met knew either.
Cabin was very bog standard, just what you would expect. We've had better and had worse.
Not really the ports fault, we docked on a bank holiday and absolutely everything was closed
We got the (paid) shuttle to blankenburge as we have been to both Brugge and gent before, it has lovely beach and promenade to walk along. The bus has been free with other lines before
We wanted to do a to river cruise, they recommended instead at the port information desk an all day hop on hop off canal boat which was excellent
We had tried to book the excursion to honfleur but it was full, we found it was very easy to do by bus when we enquired. We got the (again paid) shuttle to.the shopping mall and the bus station was opposite. The staff spoke English, you need to.check.Times.in advance as they are not very frequent but it is easy honfleur is lovely
Let Havre has a very good sunday market it even had a live band
Local volunteers run a.free guided bus tour which wAs very informative, you made a donation at the end
We really liked Liverpool Everything was walkable the Albert dock was lovely and we had a nice lunch at the cathedral
Again the shuttle was charged when it was free with otbers
The rail station is opposite the ship so it is easy to get the train Into cork. Cobb is lovely as well, we went to cork the morning and came back to Cobb for lunch. We had this in the titanic museum overlooking the sea which had very nice terrace