First, the bad. The Celebrity Suite was remodeled and generally a very good job. Except, unlike the regular rooms where the renovation put in a glass-doored shower, the much more expensive Celebrity Suite is left with a difficult to climb into bathtub with a plastic shower curtain -- which we asked be replaced due to smell and which they promptly did. Most important, and referred to in another review, this room (9096) is NOISY! The public space (pool, pool cafe, walkway into pool) is not only noisy all day, including chairs scrapping across the floor, which resonates right into the expensive suite, the NOISE continued all night, somehow. Among all the hotels and cruise ships we've been on, this is by far the noisiest room we've ever experienced. After many complaints, they did close the walkway above us from 10 pm to 6 am, which helped some nights and for some reasons did not help the other nights. FYI, because it is the top floor for units, there is also a large overhang on the outdoor balcony which blocked part of the review.

Second, the rest was pretty good. We found the staff, including our butler, to be great -- friendly, competent, nice. We were a large family group so ate mainly in the main dining room for dinner and it was fine. We'd been on this ship before (pre-renovation) and thought the food a bit better this time around. The Martini Bar is well named, and the wines available on the Premium Beverage Package were completely fine, though once or twice we did order a bottle off the wine list.

Third, the intiniary overall was good -- most Alaska cruises follow the same route/stops. One excursion was hardly worth it, but others were very enjoyable. Hubbard Glacier was amazing. At Icy Point (Hoonah) we strongly recommend lunch at the Crab House (Crab Shack?) -- the freshest biggest best King Crab we've ever had (and I used to live in Alaska) -- not cheap, for sure, but awesome. Dungeness crab was good too.