tommy921

The first two links say 'false' at the top. And in 3rd link, they say ;"Four sailings are now cancelled, including an 11-night Canary Islands cruise from Southampton, the ship’s post-dry dock transatlantic sailing, and two Caribbean itineraries. The impacted cruises are the October 24, November 3, November 16, and November 23 departure dates, all in 2024." But these four sailings are still on sale on the website. It just doesn't make sense! Why if they are cancelled?

Where have you seen this recent information about an autumn (fall) dry dock? Celebrity are still selling cruises for the Apex, for all of 2024 and early 2025, until after the transatlantic crossing on 8 March 2025, on their website. There is a gap in the schedule between 21 March 2025 and 6 April 2025. Presumably this is for the dry dock in Europe? Sort by date on this link; https://www.celebritycruises.com/gb/itinerary-search?q=apex&sailStartDate=2024-10-01&sailEndDate=2025-04-30&dateToggle=M

Yes, whilst this (our) Portugal/Med cruise isn't too badly affected, our other cruise to Norway is. For that cruise, we now arrive in Flam 1 hour earlier at 7am, BUT we leave 3 hours earlier at 3pm. This has caused huge inconvenience for many who have booked excursions there - especially on the train. So we lose 2 hours. For Tromso, we arrive 4 hours later at 1pm and leave at the same time - so we lose 4 hours. For Honningsvag we arrive 1 hour earlier but leave 2 hours earlier. We have been on a many Celebrity cruises and have had our fair share of cancellation of ports due to weather, which are not the fault of Celebrity. The most memorable being anchored outside St Petersburg for 2 days (high winds) and missing Bar Harbor (a weather bomb). Like BigAl94 - post #60, I don't recall anyone saying the ship is not seaworthy. The post by chengkp75 - post #56 is very informative as to the rules and regulations. As we had to transfer two cruises last year to this year for medical reasons with my wife, we are very loathed to cancel these two, and we will just have to 'lump it'. But our UK Celebrity cruise rep will be told our dissatisfaction!

We have two cruises booked this year on the Apex and we were disappointed to receive the two e-mails a few days ago about some time changes. We are spending a considerable amount of money for both cruises (plus excursions) and are really disappointed with Celebrity over this. There seems to be no regular pattern for the time changes on our two cruises, which only affects some ports on each cruise. First cruise - late leaving Southampton, and changes to Flam, Tromso, and Honningsvag. Second cruise - late leaving Southampton, and changes to Porto, Lisbon, Valencia and late returning to Southampton. Quite a few of us Brits were very sorry to see the Silhouette leave the UK (Southampton) last year and Celebrity have 'trumpeted' the arrival of the Apex for 2024 - yet early impressions are not good with all the changes for many cruises, and no clear explanation from Celebrity.

There don't seem to be any current speed issues - 22 knots in 1.5m (moderate) sea - screenshot taken from Cruisemapper. Celebrity really need to be a bit more transparent in my view, as to the reasoning for so many time changes.

Whilst it might be entirely unrelated, it is reported on a Facebook forum that the ship suffered a power failure for about 5 to 10 minutes on the February 3rd sailing (the length of time varies on the reports). A number of people who were on board have commented about this!