My DH (50) and I (47) sailed this great cruise with an awesome group of Cruise Critic friends. We had quite an active board with over 8,000 posts before we left, 200+ signed up for Connections Party and over 100 at our farewell dinner. We were excited to try this new Celebrity ship since we had never sailed anything other than RCCL. We booked on advanced booking 563 days prior to sailing so had lots of time to build excitement for our journey. Overall we had a fantastic cruise; however, there were a few pros and cons from our comparison point, the Voyager Class ships on RCCL. Clearly, Celebrity is marketing a different product than RCCL - I'll try to point out some of the differences we noticed.

On-Boarding:

On-boarding was very smooth. We arrived at the port about 11:30. Porters immediately took our baggage, we waited a short while to go through security and were on-board within less than 30 minutes. We were able to utilize the Elite check-in which sped things a bit but overall it was a well organized operation. Read more