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Classic design, when ships were ships.

Great job with your photos. We will be sailing on the Equinox next month, 5th time on that wonderful ship.

We sailed on the Reflection in April and agree that it was in excellent condition, food was pretty good in the MDR. Food in the OVC was also pretty good with amazing variety. Service as usual was excellent and the entertainment was good but we had better on our 4 cruises on the Equinox. Agree also on Captain Matt, he and the other officers were seen all around the ship on a daily basis and very friendly, we sailed with Captain Matt once before on the Equinox and along with Captain Kate are wonderful representatives of Celebrity Cruises.

First time we heard Country Club Casual was on Renaissance Cruse Line back in 1999. I might be mistaken but doesn’t Oceania own some of the Renaissance ships. It was a great line with great itineraries with 8 brand new ships but didn’t survive the aftermath of 9/11.

Country Club casual is the way to go these days, you won’t be turned away, if you show up in a tee shirt and shorts more than likely you will turned away. Of course no one will be offended if you wear a sport coat, suit or a tuxedo but you will probably be in the minority. Personally we liked the days when everyone dressed up but as with everything else we are in a different day and age.

Since they eliminated Lincoln Center they should rip it all out on the Vista and Signature class ships and go back to the full beautiful Explorers lounge where they always had classical music in the after dinner hours with a little table with chocolates and IIRC tea was also available.

There’s nothing wrong with the terminal but if you drive to the port like we do it’s a pain in the neck because a shuttle bus is needed to transfer you from the garage to the terminal.

Never more than a year.

I thought it was an Eastern Caribbean cruise out of Florida. My bad. Right now looking at the cones this storm is going heading straight west and probably won’t come close to Bermuda but living in Florida for 30 years and having experienced many hurricanes we have learned that they have a mind of their own and nothing is written in stone.

Celebrity could completely change the itinerary to maybe down to Cozumel, Belize and Costa Maya.

We sailed on the Infinity last October and thought she was in great shape. We had a wonderful cruise with the food, entertainment and service all exceeding expectations. Infinity is a perfect sized ship with a capacity of 2,000, we also liked the traditional promenade deck with great views of the sea from a deck chair.

Agree on MSC, I would take them over Carnival in a heartbeat. To others don’t believe some of the bad reviews in regards to MSC, sailed with them 5 times and never a bad cruise, entertainment is super with an afternoon when you can go to shortened version of an Opera, we’ve seen Madame Butterfly and La Traviata, they were outstanding and brought tears to my eyes. We’ve been on 70 cruises and tried Carnival 1 time but never again. If it’s Celebrity or Carnival, it’s no contest, go with X.

Looking forward to it!

You’re probably right but so far they’ve never turned down a booking of ours. Guess what? We loved the old Vegas too, haven’t been back since 1990.

We are 4 Star Mariners with HAL but the pandemic hit them hard and the cutbacks are noticeable, we are avoiding them until things change for the better.

Good take and no one is forcing anyone to take a cruise on Celebrity. For instance we are veteran cruisers for over 40 years and 70 cruises and are old school. We refuse to eat in specialty restaurants, we live without the internet for for a week and don’t do drink packages as we enjoy our one cocktail a day before dinner. We only sail in the Caribbean as we hate flying, we live in Florida and drive to the ports. We don’t take excursions as we’ve been to all the islands with places like St. Thomas and San Juan over 30 times, we very seldom get off the ship. All we want is our 4 cruises a year with good food, enjoyable entertainment and excellent service, we feel we are getting that with Celebrity but if the rates continue to climb we will probably switch back to Princess where we are Elite members.

We’ve been on 8 cruises since the startup with 5 on Celebrity. Only bad cruise was with Holland America. We were on the Infinity last October and it was one of the best cruises we’ve had out of the 70 we have been on. Food was very good in the MDR, fantastic entertainment and the service was outstanding. The ship for her age was in great shape and is just the right size. The Captain and officers were quite visible as IIRC we saw the Captain every day. The other 4 cruises on Celebrity were also very good with no complaints at all. The buffet on the Equinox and Reflection were really good with amazing variety. The only thing that will keep us away from Celebrity in the future are the prices, I’ve notice rates inching up higher and higher and we like to cruise 4 times a year, our next cruise is on the Equinox in August and we have a decent rate but higher to what we are are paying for a Princess cruise in December.

I don’t know who @davekathy is and I don’t care if they believe me or not.

We’ve had cruises that the volume level of music was ear shattering, just don’t know why Celebrity feels it’s necessary to blast music at these abnormal levels, who enjoys that. We have complained more than a few times.

Back in the day drinks on cruise ships were a lot less than on land at your favorite restaurant or cocktail lounge.

Those are very nice inside cabins, we had one on the Nieuw Amsterdam last December. I’m too lazy right now to look up the room number. Plenty of room and the nice L shaped sofa.

We’ve been on 8 cruises since the start up with 4 on Celebrity, the food and variety on Celebrity was very good with no complaints, compared to Holland America it’s no contest, Celebrity is much better. We have also found the food and variety in the buffet on Celebrity ships especially on the Equinox and Reflection to be outstanding. Our first 2 cruises after the start up were in the fall of 2021 and the food was pretty good also but Celebrity was a little better.

The Pinnacle class ships are 48 feet longer than Signature class ships, not a huge difference, not like Royal Caribbean ships and some of the other behemoths that are over 1100 feet long. We were on the Rotterdam a year ago and though we prefer the Eurodam and the Nieuw Amsterdam we didn’t find the Rotterdam crowded at all and it was sold out.

I appreciate your sentiments, thank you.

We’ve been on 9 cruises since the start up and there has only been 1error and it was on Holland America and in our favor, about 4 days into the cruise we were given an additional 250 dollars in OBC, being the honest fellow that I am I went down to passenger services and asked why we were given the extra OBC, after about a 15 minute investigation it was discovered that it was an error and was corrected.