My husband and I are a male couple from San Francisco, CA. Legally married in our state, together 14 years. This information is important to us personally as a family but also to this review. Read on...

We flew to Vancouver on Thursday, May 9. Arrived late and fell into bed. Got up to a sunny beautiful sailing day. J had the foresight to iron some shirts before we re-packed for the pier. We figured there'd be no iron in the stateroom and we were right!

Embarkation: Celebrity bore no responsibility for this TOTAL NIGHTMARE. We arrived to a very confusing set up on the curbside bag pick up. Pushy passenger were already showing their colors. Oh well. Then we got in a line and were handed a tag that read 1:30 pm which was the approximate time we queued up. We also got a slip of paper that said embarkation would take 2 hours due to customs/immigration. We laughed and said "no way..." WAY! Apparently 3 ships (Rotterdam and Golden Princess) were embarking along with Millennium. 7,000 eager passengers ready to board early for lunch, etc. It was stressful because there really were no announcements made about why it was taking so long. And then we came to the US Immigration station. And it was clear that American know-how was contributing to the snafu. I was so proud. NOT. Oh well, we finally boarded. Read more