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The price for each item is listed on the ticket that goes with your bag.  Each Elite person in your cabin gets one bag of laundry free, so if two people are in the cabin and both are Elite, then both get a bag free.  You have to write "Loyalty" on your ticket.

Also, as someone else mentioned, I would not send anything that is really good.  They use very hot water and colors do fade.  They do not press with the free laundry, so it comes back folded in your bag, but not always wrinkle free. 

We eat lunch in the buffet.  Since we fly in the day of (usually) we eat breakfast before boarding our flight.  If we went in the day before we eat at the hotel's breakfast buffet.

2 minutes ago, Luvcrusn said:

Agreed, it's our favorite ship.  We haven't sailed on her since December,  2017, which was before they started rolling out the new boarding system where cards were waiting at the room on Revolutionized ships and before the scan-your-passport-upload-a-photo thing started.

We sailed on her November of last year and they had not upgraded to the new system then.  I would think it would be soon, though since the Equinox has done it.  I really liked how quick embarkation was and loved that we could put our carry-ons in our cabin right away and leave.  Still had to wait until 1:00 before actually using the room, though, but you didn't have lug your carry-on around!

Here are a few I took on our recent Equinox cruise:

Buffet:

Grand Mariner Souffle:

Prime Rib in MDR:

Spring Roll app:

Squash Soup in MDR:

Lobster:

Spa Cafe:

Squash Soup:

3 minutes ago, Luvcrusn said:

Our next cruise is on Reflection  so I'll be curious to see. We've had some discussion about whether or not the new system of the room cards waiting at the room will be in place or not. Calls to Captains Club say no as do posts by those currently on board. Either way, we'll do our check-in the day it opens,  have our handy-dandy Xpress passes printed and on our phones, will happily accept our welcome aboard bubbly and be onto our next adventure. 

If you have not been on the Reflection before, you will like it. 

8 minutes ago, zitsky said:

I see that arrivals are scheduled.  If you are early, do you wait?

We didn't have to wait too long, maybe about 30-45 minutes or so.  We are Elite so we were the third group to board I think after the handicapped passengers.  We like to arrive early so we can have lunch and then have plenty of time explore the ship and find restaurants, certain venues, etc., if it's a ship we haven't been on before.  Also, if you happen to be in a port where the ship leaves in the evening, you are able to get off and explore that port if you want to.  We've done this in San Juan.  This also gives me time to get great pics of the ship without a lot of people.  It's just our preference to get on board early.  I know not everyone likes to wait and that's okay.  BTW, we were on board having lunch around 11:15ish.

We were on the Equinox last month and loved it.  I have no complaints and get tired of people complaining about minor stuff.  We loved the entertainment and felt it was much better than some other ships we've been on.  We ate all of our dinners and most breakfasts in the MDR.  The food was comparable to any other ship's we've been on.  The buffet was always good.  We had some issues, but were always polite with any complaining we did.

I thought the service was good and we had the best wait team we've had in a while.  I just have no complaints and don't understand why some people are so negative and complain about everything.  Maybe I just don't get out as much as they do or go to as many upscale events or restaurants, but I think anything is what you make it.  We've had issues, but didn't let them ruin our cruise/vacation, etc.

Here is a link to my Equinox review (with pics) if you'd like to read it. 

12 minutes ago, davekathy said:

That's what we did (no scanning of pictures or passports) and had the same exact results Terre experienced. Very quick. Of course we were at the embarkation center early with no lines. 

1 minute ago, K.T.B. said:

 

According to the app, only these ships are currently supported:

 

Constellation, Edge, Equinox, Millennium, Reflection, and Summit.

We were on Equinox and did not scan anything, just entered the numbers on line in precheck in.  They just took our pic upon arrival, didn't even go to the desk for the pic. We did not download the app. 

You can go to any bar and get your drinks between 5-7:00.  If you go to the Sky Lounge, finger foods are served.  Your drinks are loaded each day on your card.

1 minute ago, zitsky said:

 

Ok. So you did not scan pics or passport before?  Just filled out the checkin forms?

No, we didn't do that.  I did all of the online check in before hand entering our passport numbers, credit card, etc.  Normally even doing that we would have go to the desk and give them our credit cards and passports, but not this time.  We also didn't have to stop at customs on disembarkation because of facial recognition and we had nothing to declare.

This may be something new with just the Equinox for now, but everything was so quick.

It does make it quicker at the terminal.  We just got back from the Equinox a few weeks ago and we didn't even have to go to the desk.  They took our pics and we were on our way.  Cards were at our door.  Took maybe three minutes.

OP, I just read all of the posts and I'm sorry that some people can be so mean in their comments.  I've dealt with that in the past and have stayed away from the boards more than I liked.  I've learned to ignore them and decided they don't deserve a response.  I think also that some people don't get that a person can read a different tone into their words than they do, after all we can't "hear" the way they, themselves are reading it.  That's why they are offended that you were offended.  With that being said, it's obvious when someone is being mean.

I think that's why some of us who have been with CC from the beginning are leaving.  It's a shame because there is still a lot of good info here.  I hope this will not keep you away as most people are nice and try to be helpful.

Here's a link to my review with pics.  Scroll to the food section for pics:. 

I wouldn't say the food is superior, but comparable.  It depends on your chef.

7 hours ago, calicakes said:

My wife and I were on your cruise. I live blogged during it. Interesting that some of your soups look exactly like the soups we had in Blu. I ordered grits for breakfast at least 5 times. A couple times, they were undercooked. I do prefer stone ground grits. Our aqua class room was so cold at night. I usually sleep with a fan at home, but it’s for background noise. I used the fan app on my phone. We tried to reserve a golf cart  months before the cruise, they were sold out. We went snorkeling on the seacow instead. 

We may need to get Aqua class rooms for now on!  On the Reflection they kept our room very cold at night.

You are welcome.

11 minutes ago, NBliving said:

Great review! We are going on this cruise in May of 2020. Have not been to the ABC’s before. Your pictures are beautiful. We can’t wait!

Thank you!  Curacao is my favorite!  Enjoy your cruise!

1 hour ago, VegasGuy29 said:

You mentioned the stateroom temperature being higher at night. Does the thermostat not allow a lower temperature at night? I also have a hard time sleeping if the room isn’t cold, so this might become an issue on a 7 night cruise. 

Not that we could figure out.  We had it set as low as it would get and every night the temp in the cabin would increase to 70-72 pretty much around the same time -- 12:00.  During the day it stayed a steady 68 degrees.  I wish it had been 68 at night!  The fan I got for my asthma helped some, but we still got hot during the night. 

25 minutes ago, VioletHorse said:

We sailed on the CARNIVAL Horizon last year. It had the largest salad bar that I've ever seen on any cruise ship/cruise line, but it wasn't located in the buffet. It was located in Serenity, the adult only area.  It had so many choices of greens, proteins, veggies and other add ins.  The salad bowls that diners used were the size of mixing bowls - a salad lover's dream.

 

I do agree that the Equinox buffet is much better than anything Carnival offers, but we managed to eat at Guys Burgers and the Blue Iguana ( for excellent made to order tacos and burritos) so the buffet was a non issue for us.  We also took advantage of the free lunch offerings in 2 of the specialty restaurants.  There are no free specialty restaurant lunches on X.

 

 

 

Have not heard of Carnival Horizon; glad you had a good salad bar on it.  I'm not much of a salad person.  That was also nice that you were able to have lunch in the specialty restaurants...a good way to get you back for dinner!  We always liked Carnival's food.

1 hour ago, Barwick Cruiser said:

There is no ship called Horizon with Celebrity...must be a different line the poster was on.

 

Thank you for your review, great info and pics, glad you had a good time.  We are looking forward to exploring Equinox sometime!

Thanks...There may not be a Celebrity Horizon  now, but we sailed the Celebrity Horizon years ago to Bermuda.  It was small enough to go through the canal. 

2 hours ago, emmas gran said:

Hi We met Riz and his wife way back in 2014 on Infinity doing S America. Lovely guy, we have seen him on ships a couple of times since. The last time was Millennium in Jan/Feb 2018

We loved him!  We would give him tips periodically and noticed he would put them in a cup where another bartender would put them in his pocket.  I asked him if they had to split the tips and he said no, but he liked to share with "the people who work for me".  I thought that was nice.  The last night we gave him a pretty good tip and told him that was for him, to keep all of it!  He has a young daughter back in the Phillipines and talked about her a lot.  He would tell us what he'd bought for her in port and his face would light up talking about her.  You can tell he's a great guy.

3 hours ago, ROXY GIRL said:

Thanks 39august. We just sailed the Carnival Horizon and the salad bar was very very small. The whole lido food selection was very lacking.

Do you mean Celebrity Horizon?  It's a much smaller ship than the Equinox and would have a smaller buffet.  You will like the Equinox's buffet.

2 minutes ago, ROXY GIRL said:

That was a great review.

Did you think your cabin was still in great shape?What was new in there?

Did the buffet have a big salad bar area?

Thanks for any info.

Thank you!  I thought the cabin was adequate, and honestly, I wouldn't know what was new and what wasn't.  The bed was comfortable and I slept well except that I got very hot during the night even with the fan.

The buffet had a good size salad bar, but I don't remember how big it was.  The food was all very good at the buffet.

Any other questions, I'll try to answer.

sorry...horizontal pics just won't post correctly.

This is a link to the album, hopefully...

http://s1336.photobucket.com/user/Terre52/library/2019 Celebrity Equinox/2019 Equinox

7 minutes ago, MISTER 67 said:

Great review, the Equinox is a great ship, not too big, not too small. We sailed on her in June and loved the ship and everything else that we booked her again on August 31, that was the Hurricane Dorian cruise which we completely avoided but on the last day we stopped in Freeport instead of Nassau to help out the survivors of Dorian with water and food.

We saw reports of the passengers doing that in Freeport and I was so touched.  That was so nice of everyone to help out with that.  Thank you for doing that.

59 minutes ago, oneputt18 said:

Nice review, Equinox is our favorite ship, sailed on her 6 times. We are trying the Reflection, then the Silhouette and next is the Edge. I hope we enjoy them as much as the Equinox.

 

I think you will like the Reflection.

49 minutes ago, 39august said:

Curious as to how you had access to the Retreat Sun deck as you were not in a suite.  We were on the next week after you and thankfully the muster drill was held WITHOUT the very stupid "spy" video which we have suffered through previously. Hope it is gone for good. 

I didn't have access to it.  We were on the deck where it's located getting shots of the sunset and I just took pics of what I could see from the railing.  It's not hidden.