Your taste in dining style may differ from ours, but Equinox accommodates all delightfully.
Background: two married professionals, newly retired & exploring. This was our first cruise on Celebrity since a "Capitals of Northern Europe" expedition in 2004 on Constellation. We circumnavigated British Isles then a Norway cruise on NCL in May/June 2009 on the Norwegian Jade. The shipboard experience then was so bad that we viewed this cruise with considerable trepidation -- unnecessarily.
We flew from Dulles to Rome on British Airways via Heathrow (the flight was magnificent, but try to miss Heathrow). We flew BA because BA has a World Travellor Plus cabin. It has just a bit more space to recline and to spread sideways that makes the long distance travel less onerous.
Poorly designed storage. Ample room for hanging clothes. Too noisy from track above. For this itinerary, a poor location on starboard.