Celebrity Eclipse Review

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Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Celebrity Eclipse
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2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Aug 2014
Cabin: Celebrity Suite

We booked the 8/30/2014 cruise to the Fjords of Norway, and arrived in London a few days early. We had a pleasant stay at the Ampersand Hotel in South Kensington. We arranged for an International Friends bus to get us to Southampton, stopping in Stonehenge. Stonehenge was a bit crowded. There’s a path and short fence circling Stonehenge. We can’t go into the stones, only around them. And so we did.

Arriving in Southampton, there was some confusion on which line to join…An officious, squinting lady studied our ticket for a long minute, then resolutely pointed us the wrong way. We corrected that, going under some ropes to the proper line, and then through security, registered quickly and boarded without incident

Celebrity provided a complimentary bottle of sparkling wine provided in the cabin, nestled in an ice bucket. The bottle was wet and slippery and, when the cork popped prematurely, the bottle escaped my grip, and there was champagne everywhere. We flung towels out and, to add to the sense of mayhem, the doorbell rang. As luck would have it, it’s the blond assistant manager of room attendants. I lauded her timely arrival, and pointed out the mess we had just made. She beckoned the room attendant who undid the damage I had done.

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Celebrity Suite

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We chose this suite, with the same exact layout as on our cabin 1620 on the Equinox for our Mediterranean cruise. We had liked the cabin’s sitting room with its large L-shaped couch, perfect for stretching out and lounging idylically. The only difference, for this trip, the cabin was on the port side so, when underway, the ocean went the wrong direction. Alex, our butler, was terrific.

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