Here is your review: Past cruiser of Celebrity and wanted to cruise on a new Ship with great Ports of Call. We waited for more than five years (due to COVID-19 Pandemic and shut downs) for this trip of a lifetime. Problems did not start until we disembarked and at this point, me and another Black Man were racially profiled and discriminated against by several non-English speaking Customs Officials for close to two hours and I almost missed my ride to the Airport and my Flight home. It appears that Celebrity had “no tax requirement for this particular week for purchases made onboard”. However, the Customs Officials wanted me to pay taxes and to get the Hell away from these stupid, prejudice people, I reluctantly agreed. Now for the next two hours, they could not find a working computer or determine the amount of taxes they wanted paid. So, now, to find a computer, they take us from the Port to a local Customs Office and proceeded to determine the amount they thought should be paid, well almost two hours later, they returned my passport and the picture they had taken of my passport and receipt and let me and my Husband leave. I should also point out that they only saw two Black people, in a sea of about one thousand White people, they assumed that the other Black was my Husband and for about 10 minutes, kept telling me that he was my Husband. When my Husband showed up, they, were not interested in him, just me and the other Black Male. I had purchases with me from Louis Vuitton, Furla and Tiffany’s. They immediately cleared the other two purchases but did not like the no tax of the Tiffany items and proceeded to harass and discriminate against me for two hours. I will be filing a complaint with the Italian Government, Celebrity and the United States Department of State. Based on this experience, I will never go back to Rome.
