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We flew from Manchester with Vueling in September. The queue was quite long but they had plenty of staff and check in was perfectly smooth. Just needed our passports, nothing else was asked for. We were seated together. With Vueling from Barcelona in June we were not but bizarrely I had 2 empty seats beside me so hubs joined me! Just be aware that the carry on luggage is the underseat size. We saw people being charged extra when they had standard 10kg size carry on wheelies. The planes seemed new, were clean and left on time. All good

We disembarked yesterday. The ship was in good shape generally. We were on deck 8 in June and our room sofa had been recovered. Our deck 6 room this trip was still the original rust coloured sofa and looked … well just old and dated really, as were the carpets. The curtains looked tatty, the dressing gowns were well worn. The public areas still look pretty good to me and there was the usual attention to cleaning, vacuuming etc. My biggest disappointment was the menu. Mash with everything …. and served luke warm. On one occasion actually cold! On the last evening there were 3 pasta dishes! And lots of soup on the starters. Sometimes 3 of those. Obviously as they are inexpensive options. A few night they offered ‘specials’ and the butter chicken was very good. The waiters were great. . I made a point of trying a small taster of hot food in OV every lunchtime. The only thing which was acceptably hot was fresh from the oven pizza. Lunchtime chicken dishes were using small drumsticks, not breast. Salads and bread very good. OV ice cream still delish. All in all we had a lovely holiday. We got a good deal so no real complaints but I am not sure Celebrity should call themselves luxury nowadays.

I will look into that… thank you

Yes…thank you… I think we need to calm down and just look forward to the treat of another cruise 😀

Thank you. I am going to investigate that and see how we get on. 🤞🏼

Oh I can’t edit now I don’t think. Yes we realise we have probably made a mistake 🙄

Oh stupid me it is 6281. I will edit. Thank you

We are regular Reflection cruisers in a verandah and for the first time we have booked a guarantee as it was a good price and we wanted to squeeze another reasonably priced trip in this summer. It seemed like a great idea but now we are not so sure. We have been allocated 6128 and now we are worried. It seems to be over the kitchens on deck 5 and we are concerned about early morning/late night noise. Does anyone have experience of this cabin pls? We have looked at the sticky and it isn’t on there. TIA

Many thanks for the speedy responses. Very helpful.

Hi all. We are regular Celebrity cruisers but are considering Princess out of Southampton to avoid potential flying issues. Just wondering if the position of the bed, ie by balcony or bathroom, alternates as they do on S class Celebrity ships? I can only find pics of balcony rooms with bed by the bathroom. Any info would be welcome. Many thanks

Glad you had such a great time. We love the Reflection too. I wonder if you could give me some info please. We have to pay our final payment next week for our Reflection cruise in August and have been reading the awful experiences of people quarantined with Covid (not on Reflection) in the last few weeks. All seems to have quietened down re covid and associated problems on CC. Do you know if there were many cases on board. Was there a lot of coughing going on, people not reporting illness etc!? We are from UK too and we have avoided infection up to now and tbh don’t really think about it now, but I am concerned about potentially being quarantined in an ocean view😳