I can't blame Celebrity, it's agents or representatives as I chose this cruise as it fitted in with my days off work and it was going through the Panama Canal.
This trip was awful. The average age of the guests was around 79 (no, I'm not kidding). In the evenings after the first dinner sitting had finished, everybody went back to their cabins or to bed leaving all five if the main bars virtually empty. I have never seen so many wheel chairs, Zimmer frames and electric scooters in one place at one time. At one stage I thought I was going to be offered some kind of walking aid so I could fit in with the rest of the crowd. This got so bad that if you were waiting for a lift, when the doors opened, you could guarantee that some kind of wheelchair or scooter would come out.
Food. The food on offer was of the usual high standard I would expect on a cruise and was quite varied-if you went to the main Trellis Restaurant. The Oceanview Grill buffet was a different matter. Every day the menu for breakfasts, lunch and evening meals was the same. A little variation would have been welcome. I was on the early sitting for the evening meal but after sitting down with several members of the living dead I enquired if I could be moved to a later table. I was invited onto a table for 10 and I found the people to be very interesting.