This was our first Celebrity cruise after 13 with Carnival, Holland America and Princess. We were dazzled by Celebrity and were rewarded with the best vacation we ever experienced. I think you could primarily call us Princess refugees, seeking a safer, more rewarding spot for our hard-earned vacation dollars.

This will probably be rather long, but I hope it will be useful to you and will partially repay all the generous information we have taken from these boards from fellow posters.

We are late 50's, two sisters and our husbands and always cruise together. We don't expect perfection and are pretty easy going...we just don't like paying money for disappointment and we have certainly done that on enough cruises...yet we kept trying to find that elusive great vacation! Read more