Celebrity Infinity Review

Do NOT go to Antarctica on this cruise ship. You will be very disappointed!

Review for Antarctica Cruise on Celebrity Infinity
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Alcin
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jan 2018
Cabin: Aqua Class

First I just want to say that this was, I think, our 26th cruise. This was one of the worst experiences I’ve had on a “bucket list” trip. About a week prior to sail date receive message from Celebrity that Puerto Madryn cancelled due to propulsion on the ship. Received close to 1/14th of cruise cost on our credit card to give us one day credit. That was 1 of 4 ports that we now will miss. By the way, where we are going it’s known for bad weather and rough waters. Who is the idiot that makes the decision to screw the passengers and ruin their vacation with a ship that can’t handle these types of conditions. The money hungry execs don’t care if they steal the mone6 from people. Captain kept saying daily issues with propulsion and weather. First stop, Ushuaia, we get to hours later than we should have. Oh, don’t worry we will stay till 1 a.m. We do a catamaran ride, which was fine, but then get on bus to go to Tierra del Fuego National Park. First it’s getting dark, we can barely understand guide, we get to stop a couple times to take pics. Didn’t see anything but dead trees and weeds. We didn’t get to walk through the park. It was a bus ride. Others that went 1st to the park got to walk around. We get to ship at 10:30 pm and stores are closed. No souvenirs! Next day talked to Shore Excursions mgr. and he says they gave us what they said they would. Approximately $160 ea., we got ripped off. In another day or two, we are told we are going to have to miss our Port Stanley, Falkland Islands due to weather. They made sure that it wasn’t about propulsion....but we also have to go another way to avoid the weather. Also, we now miss our only chance to see the King penguins and be near them. They lied, lied, lied to us. This ship has had propulsion issues since day 1 when it started cruising. We paid over $15,000 for this trip. We had issues in our bathroom that the shower leaked horribly and they never fixed it. Told that this is going to dry dock after a couple more cruises. I guess they want to give the shaft to a few others. Thank you Celebrity for ruining our trip. Maybe we need to go back to Royal Caribbean because we’ve never had our whole trip ruined. Told by others on the ship that Celebrity already knew this was how the trip was going to be. We have another bucket list trip next year with Celebrity but we are thinking of changing cruise lines. Most of the staff were fine but there was even issues with them at times.

Cabin Review

Aqua Class

Cabin A1

Cabin was ok. We had issues with a leaking shower which we complained about but never got fixed. The towels were so grayed and rough. Towels looked dirty at all times. Heating/cooling did not work too well. We froze in our room when we got into the cold weather.

Port Reviews

Montevideo

Just walked around the area. It was OK.

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