Marella Celebration Review
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This was a bit of a magical mystery tour as we were due to join the Celebration on 17th February 2011 - when things were still very unsettled in Egypt. About a week before we were due to sail we spotted that our itinerary had changed (pretty much out of all recognition) Although it was very disappointing to learn that we were missing the ports for Cairo and Alexandria as well as Messina we were just relieved that the cruise would go ahead (we had arranged join this cruise to surprise our dad who was travelling alone and who's only wish was to sail the Suez Canal again) This trip should have been Sharm el Sheik to Barcelona via the Suez Canal but our final port of call was changed to Naples a few days before we left.
This was our first cruise on the Celebration but it felt very familiar to us as we've been on the Spirit several times in the past and the two ships seem pretty much identical with a few exceptions.
Embarkation was much smoother and faster than our previous experience at Sharm el Sheikh (Spirit - Red Sea Magic in 2007)
Cabin Review
The cabin was adequate although it did feel rather too small when we both needed to be moving around at the same time! There are twin beds, 2 wardrobes with adequate coat hangers, 2 sets of drawers (3 drawers each) and one bedside table with 2 drawers as well as a dressing table area with a hair dryer
The walls are paper thin and on 5 out of 8 nights we were woken by our neighbours returning to their cabin, talking loudly or arguing and watching the tv at 2am. Snoring could clearly be heard in the middle of the night. This cabin is towards the end of a corridor so gets little passing traffic.
We experienced several very rough nights at sea - during these rough spells we experienced some very loud noises which can only be compared to a loose metal barrel rolling around. Not only did this disturb our sleep it was rather frightening as we didn't know where the noise was coming from.