Beware,
came on healthy, left with covid! Food was awful! They broke my luggage as well. Value of 250. Gave me a cheap bottle of champagne to compensate me. The food was so salty. Every time I ate it my feet and hands were swollen. Also went down to get medicine and I asked the nurse if there were people on board with covid and she said yes. I asked her to give me the symptoms of covid and ...
Where do I begin...First let me say that the weather was perfect, normally supposed to be raining this time of year but we got super lucky and it was sunny and 60's the whole time. Second, Alaska is AMAZING!!! This trip was the Dawes glacier cruise out of Seattle. Everywhere we went was amazing. Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway were incredible ports. Now for the cruise ship, deep breath...
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My wife and I were not the typical cruisers on our recent sailing. We’re both in our late 30s, have traveled the world independently, and are interested in really getting to know a place and its people. I was really disappointed in both the vibe onboard the ship in tandem with the extreme tourist-ification of our ports of call. We did not partake in any of the shore excursions, instead planning ...
We boarded Solstice with a group and looked forward to an amazing trip. While Alaska was fantastic, the ship was hardly adequate and there was little concern about service and food. We should have known it was an omen when we checked in at the pier for our Concierge Suite. The kid checking us in knew little about how to go about it. He NEVER asked for our negative Covid test and when I asked if he ...
Seven members of our family enjoyed a lovely 5 day cruise for the most part. The hostess at the dining room had great difficulty managing reservations and we were bounced from table to table in My Time Dining although our reservation was for the same time each night. Our waiter was great and the service to our rooms was acceptable. We often had to ask for missing items like clean towels and ...
Nightmare embarkation, no so-called health check as noted by Celebrity. Ship looks and feels old both on the interior and exterior. Outside areas rusting and missing paint. Wood surfaces, tables, stairs etc. were worn to the point where the finish was completely gone and rubber strips for traction on the stairs were peeling off. The back center wooden stairs from deck 14 to 15 were left flooded to ...
After having great cruises on both the newer Edge & the Apex ships we were totally dissatisfied with the run down interior of the Ocean View Cafe and the Sky Lounge. The furniture had stains, torn chairs, ripped drapes and some of the glass windows were so dirty you could barely see out of them. My wife & I thought Celebrity was a luxurious brand. We never saw even once, not one bar waiter in the ...
We were on this ship the previous month for the first sailing out of St. Marteen and gave it a 5 star review on this site.
We booked this cruise after we got home since we loved the crew and ship and were excited to visit Alaska.
The crew was still wonderful and still were as friendly and personable as the previous month. However, the shows were the same except for a new comedian, the ...
I booked this particular ship due to the itinerary as it related to the time in port in the three Alaska ports. The hours in port were longer and or better to my liking than the other cruise lines I explored when planning this trip. Out of the 5 cruises I have been on (3 Carnival, 1 Royal Caribbean, and this one on Celebrity.) This was the overall worst of the 5 cruises. The only highlights was ...
Overheard: "Oh great... another line to stand in."
Pros:
Clean.
Nice staterooms with good layout.
Cabin steward/staff excellent.
Nice balcony.
Nice connecting rooms for those with kids.
Nice, clean bathrooms.
Naturalist Brent Nixon... while he may be a bit dramatic, he knows his audience. Lectures were informative and entertaining.
Captain Tasos was entertaining as ...