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11 hours ago, ipeeinthepool said:

 

If I remember correctly, one of the benefits of the Edge design is that it was designed by people with little or no experience with cruise ships.  Sounds like a miss to me.

Maybe a missunderstanding here. The designer Kelly Hoppen has nothing to do with the idea or construction of the IV. This has been engineered by the yard in cooperation with the RCI newbuilding team. They have all a huge experience with ship building.

If one likes the idea of the IV is another subject.

Marilyn, this was a great sum up of it all!

A well done completed mission!

Now I only wish you the best recovery, but maybe the best medicin for you is knowing you soon board the Edge so soon again 😀

Designer Tihany hadn't done any cruise ship design before he did the Solstice class and today he is asked to design a large number of ships and is liked by many cruisers.

Celebrity Cruises has for a very long time used designers/architects with no previous record of doing cruises ships. Main dining on Mercury was done by SheltonMindel (no prevoius cruise ship work done) and never heard any complaints on them. In fact this is the ships of the past many here would love to come back.

If Edge is what Celebrity Cruises promised us is a total different thing.

The whole dining offering is changing fleetwide with the Edge. So Murano will go...the new Celebrity is not about high class dining anymore.

I also got confirmed that Mein Schiff 6 and the larger 1 is indeed the prototype Edge is based on. Which is based on the Solstice class. This prototype makes it difficult to "open up" the ship to the sea, but Celebrity have cleverly maxed out the possibilites.

I agree that Celebrity should stay away from crazy gimmicks and keep it in style and elegant ambience, but there are so many things one can do with the interior to create drama and interesting experiences. The dining rooms will be difficult to get right with the low ceiling heights. Especially on deck 3 with the standard 2,5m deck height. Seating plan looks booringly hotel ballroom standard, but I'm hoping to be surprised later today :)

Exciting day ahead

So at last we got to know why Celebrity has been so slow on showing us this ship...there is nothing new. There aren't anything new to copy as they said...all we see are copies from their own ships or others.

Good try with the infinitive verandas, but this ship is no maritime revolution like the Oasis was at her time.

At least she has an interior decor that is a leap forward.

So only exciting thing is the MC which IS a TRUE innovation.

I've seen a rendering of the Mast Grill so looks like that is still one option.

Space looked sort of booring though. A little cold and unsophisticated as many of the Edge spaces looks on the renderings. Hopefully it will looks better in real life.

This was released some time ago.

I agree though, very impressive and for me the best looking area of the edge so far.

Looking forward to some news today.

With all these ads telling a revolution is coming and change the future of cruising I think I'm set to be disappointed. Looking at the released profile of the Celebrity Edge all I see is a tweeked Solstice class with a huge movie screen in the middle on the top deck. Even RCCL's Quantum ships comes to my mind with the gym on top of the ship at the mast position. I hope I will be surprised though...in a good sense. :D

I wonder if they will use the Loggia concept from Brombach-Gess for the cabin design. I have been reading somewhere that they wana open up the cabin and have a free flowing design where the outside come inside.

Looking forward to the March release from my favourite cruise line!

If one want's a upscale and formal cruise do people then still cruise RCI?

I felt the last years than if that's the case then one would choose other cruise lines, but I could be wrong since it was some years ago now I cruised RCI.

Static Event...sounds great! Love when one has a strong opinion!

Yesterday was the day of dissapoinments, byt today we have to look at the positive parts of the "Dynamic dining". Jamie's Italian restaurant and Wonderland all looks great and very fitting to what is served. Also looks like they have hight standard details (like the new Britannia and the Solstice class) as well as being up to the standard of equivalent on land establishments.

Quantum will also feature a "small feel" impression when there is no super large MDR as well as a great variety of food. Well done Royal!

I agree with you!

...but today is the day after the "big" reveal (that wasn't anything new at the end) so it's the time to see the positive things about it.

I love the MDR fixed seating concept, but I do also love having several choices of speciality restaurants and on the Quantum class there will be more than ever. The menus also looks very tempting and interesting.

Yesterday was underwhelming and the day of dissapointment, but today it's about the positive things.

Menu offerings sounds great and it look great on the pictures. I also think that the design of the place is fitting, but maybe the wall coverings if looking to cheap will take away the exclusive feeling it has on the perspectives.

45$ is appropriate for the food offered.

Thank you Durk for your humble suggestion!

If you see it as something new and exciting then good for you! I see it as something old and disappointing. I'll stick to the Radience class now when Royal didn't come out with something new as they promised. I for sure will not Cruise with NCL.

Enjoy Quantum of the seas!

Well for some it's "complaining" and for some it's just we've seen the pig without the make up :)

Nothing wrong with something new and the food on the menus sounds great, but why apply the "old" freestyle type of dining from NCL which so few Royal guests seems to like (many have said they no longer Cruise with NCL just beacuse of the freestyle concept).

Today we have seen nothing new or innovative.It's almost been funny to read Royal answering in the other thread on the difference between "Dynamic" and "Freestyle" dining. Answer has been Royal offer 4 included dining rooms and in total 18 places to eat. Well the coming NCL ship has also 4 included dining rooms and over 30 in total so I guess they are more "innovative" than Royal?

Food I'm sure will be great and most menus feature the kind of food I like, but I don't like that the fixed seating dining room is gone. I do eat at 2-3 of the speciality restaurants when cruising, but love having my fixed seating whenever I feel for that without the hazzle of booking almost years in advance something I have no clue of if I would like at the time of dining.

Pity Royal Went with the enlarged Solstice class type of ship from the beginning and not creating something completely new and interesting like the Oasis class.

Royal says "Give guests more options, more flexibility and more control over their dining experience", but in reality it's less options, less flexibility and maybe more controle (depening if the restaurant booking made months to a year in advance is to ones liking at the time of dining).

I forgot something "more" they gave us is that dining (and the total cruise cost) now will cost "more"!

Well I've heard so many funny things today so I have to say thank you to Royal for the laughs.

So it's back to Celebrity, Radiance class or the on paper very interesting P&O Britannia.

"Freestyle" or "Dynamic" in the cruise business are supposed to mean that one is "free" and can choose when, where and with whom to eat, but in reality it means booking and planning months in advance to get a variety of food and the type one wants.

So at the end one is less "free" than in the "old fashion" Cruise ship standard dining with fixed dining schedule.

Looking beyond the food I'm still mostly sad that the "enlarged" Radience class ships we heard about at the begining never materialized in the Quantum class. Well we stil have the Radience class hips to enjoy :)

I can somewhat agree with you.

I have nothing against changes if they are interesting and well done, but I think for me at this time of life and after nine cruises that fixed dining schedule fits me the best.

So this is it?

After all the hush hush and waiting we have "freestyle dining" as NCL.

I said it at the beginning of the first "WOW" reveal that this ship isn't justifying the secrecy since it's only a larger Solstice class ship and will not be such a leap forward in the Cruise history as they try to make us belive.

They know so well they don't have anything really "new" with this larger Solstice class ship so they try hard with all this secrecy make us belive they have something that will blow us away.

Also look at the interior design showned of the restaurants. They look dated and old fashioned in a way. I've just today looked at the new P&O ship Britannia and it looks way more up to date and interesting than the new RCI ships. Pity! I had high hopes that the interior design would WOW me, but so far only the standard cabins have impressed me with their high standard. Suites look dull and booring.

On my cruise in January this year (please see my review if interrested) on the Equinox we had cabin 6174. It's right above the smaller rescue boats so one have to stand up to see the top of the rescue boat. Otherwise a clear sightline, but one can't see the hull going down into the water if this is of importance to anyone.

As regarding to why the CC cabins are placed under the large overhang. To my knowledge the amenities are added to these cabins to be able to sell these less atractive cabins to same or higher price than if they were regular balcony cabins. As to why the suites are up there too...maybe just bad planning :)