Okay, I'll tell you a little about the ship. There are pros and cons and some things we liked better on Celebrity and some things we liked better on RCCL. The ship is beautiful, when boarding we were handed mimosa's or champagne as we entered the ship.....nice touch. The ship is a little longer than the Explorer but a LOT narrower (about 26 ft narrower) so there is more movement even in calm water. Our sailing was pretty calm but the ship was rocking sometimes, especially at night.

Lots and lots of bars. The bars are pretty spread out and on different floors so it's kind of hard if your looking to meet up with someone because you'd have to run all over the ship checking all the bars. They have an ice bar which was pretty cool (it's the martini bar). I really wanted to try the molecular bar to try a crazy kind of martini but every time we passed there was hardly anyone there.........sometimes no one there, but the Martini (ice bar) was packed every night. There was music all around the ship in the evening and dancing in the Centrum, but the disappointing thing for us was there was no music at the pool on the first sea day which we found odd. On the 2nd sea day someone finally appeared for music but it wasn't a steel drum band. They seemed to do 1 hr gigs - for instance, there was a guitar player one day, then an Capella group, then 1 steel drum guy. One day it was just piped DJ music for a couple hours before some other act came on. We like Steel Drum music at the pool playing reggae to get you in the Caribbean mood, I don't want to hear someone singing a country song on my way to the Caribbean. Wait staff did not walk around the pool area with trays of drinks like they do on RCCL. As a matter of fact, they hardly walked around at all and it was tough sometimes to get someone to get you a drink........LOL I have to admit that their lounge chairs were very comfy because they had pads on them instead of just the plastic lounges that RCCL has. I also liked the fact that they had a Mast Grill outside on the deck above the pool and they made fresh burgers, hot dogs, fries and veggie burgers. The burgers were delicious there!!! They also had frozen yogurt there and beverages. I never eat burgers on RCCL because they sit under those hot lamps, so we liked that aspect on Celebrity better.

The ship was beautiful but honestly, I hated all the "so called art". It was mainly pictures/photos that were pretty ugly if you ask me............LOL For instance, a girl's head with a tree growing out of it or an entire wall of kids pictures (just faces) with their eyes closed and their mouths open and they all had marks on their faces.......freaked me out!!! Backs of women instead of a front view. Guess the art goes with the modern ship. OK, so the ship was pretty but art was awful but that's just my opinion. I always loved walking the stairwells on Royal ships to look at all the cool artwork, but not here, they were all pictures or vases. The art on the ship might appeal to some people but not to me, art like food is subjective. Read more