My wife and I just returned from a 15 night cruise aboard the Celebrity Millennium and I have to say the cruise, ship, and staff we first class the only disappointment was the food. I couldn't believe that the menus were so poorly put together and that so many of the items served didn't match the description on the menu. For instance on 2 occasions I ordered soups the first was a cream of potato soup with sauteed frogs legs that came with no frog legs. The next was a seafood soup garnished with shrimp, scallops and muscles that came out with no seafood in it (the base of the soup was also used for the lobster bisque and a number of seafood sauces, by the way I have been a chef for over 20 years so in this case I know what I'm talking about). On both occasions when I brought this up to our waiter (Okaysaya) whom I thought was very good at his job he had no idea why this was happening and the head waiter would come over and tell me he would go to the kitchen to take care of this, the first time he came back after I finished my entree with another bowl of soup that had frog legs on it. Again the second time he did the same even though I told him I didn't want another bowl I just wanted him to know that items were coming out wrong. The next night he brought everyone at the table another bowl of the seafood soup loaded with seafood even though I was the only person that ordered it originally, too little too late. These are just a couple instances but there were more. I can say that no one left the table hungry and there were some bright spots on the menus as well but by far the biggest issue in talking to other guests were complaints about the food. My opinion they need to consider hiring a new chef and maybe replace others on the kitchen staff as well.

The ship was recently in dry dock and for a 10 year old ship the Milli was in really nice shape, very clean and well maintained. The activity staff were a great group of folks led by Artie Anderson (cruise director). The entertainment was not really to my liking, I can't say it was not good but I've enjoyed many great shows at sea however not on this particular cruise and the ship entertainment was amateurish at best.

During this cruise we actually visited 11 ports of call - St Croix, St Martin, St Kitts, Guadalupe, St Lucia, Dominica, Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, Curacao and Aruba. We really enjoyed all but Guadalupe, we found the port to be dirty and people to be much less friendly than all of the other ports. The other big issue there was everything is priced in Euro's and most people had no idea how to deal with American dollars or even want to take dollars. This was our first time to many of these islands and I can say I wouldn't mind living in St Lucia, Tobago or Curacao people are great, countries are all beautiful and being as it's seriously winter where I live the weather can't be beat! Read more