Celebrity Infinity Review

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beckmau
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Mar 2014

We joined 6 of our friends for a cruise beginning at Valparaiso, through the canal to Miami in March 2014. We flew to Santiago a day early so had one afternoon to explore this beautiful but very large city. We were thankful the government had just discontinued the reciprocity visa fee, that saved us $320.00 per couple. The afternoon of our arrival we had a van tour arranged for our group. We saw many of the historical sites and the highlight for me was a ride on the funicular to see the Virgin Mary statue that overlooks the city. It is a beautiful, mostly clean city - it is just very large. We stayed at Hotel Ibis - good choice. It is relatively new, clean and reasonable. Rooms are small by our standards, but they are adequate. It is in Providencia area of town with shopping and restaurants close by. Breakfast was included in the room rate.

We used the same van company the next day to transport to Valparaiso/Vina del Mar (another large city). We did have a nice stop at a pretty organic winery (Emilia) on the way. I enjoyed seeing the countryside there, it is reminiscent of southern California.

Embarkation was easy. The Infinity is still a nice ship but beginning to show her age. The itinerary for this trip is restful - port days separated by sea days. We love this plan as we love sea days and getting plenty of downtime between ports. Our first day was a port day at La Serena/Coquimbo. We chose to just walk around Coquimbo on our own at this stop. It is a pretty dirty port - had to really watch where you step to avoid "land mines" (dog doo). Altogether rather forgettable.

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We enjoyed this cabin. It was actually nice to have more inside sitting area rather than a balcony.

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