Celebrity Cruises 4+

My wife and I recently completed a 12 day cruise to Norway on the Celebrity Apex. I chose this particular cruise as I am of Norwegian Heritage and have always wanted to go to Norway and it happened to start on my 70th Birthday. Everything about the cruise was wonderful and exceeded my expectations. I love the layout of the Edge Class Ships and particularly enjoyed the Magic Carpet and spending some relaxing time in the afternoons in Eden. We ate dinner most Nights in Normandie and our wait staff of August, Eric and our Sommelier, Anthony made each night special. They were friendly, informative and attentive, which added to our enjoyment of our cruise. Also, the food was very good. It had been quite a few years since our last Celebrity Cruise and although their food was always good, it seemed they have upped their game since then. As for our stateroom, we had a Celebrity Concierge Class cabin with an Infinite balcony that we really enjoyed as it gave us more usable space in the room. Our cabin attendant Jaime was very friendly, kept our stateroom immaculate and was on the spot when we had a minor emergency, when the bathroom flooded. This was my 17th cruise and 5th with Celebrity and certainly one of the most memorable. We are already booked for the 2nd voyage of the new Celebrity Xcel next November and can’t wait!

We had the most fantastic journey to St Maarten, Antigua, st Lucia, Barbados, and Dominica. It was everything we had hoped and more. The service and staff were impeccable, always smiling, always accommodating, always kind. How do they remain so upbeat? The food was also excellent. We had the blessing of Aquaclass amenities. The Persian Garden in the spa was a favorite, as well as Blu, where we ate almost every night. We met lovely people each day, even making connections we will treasure for years to come. The entertainment was excellent — especially Dizzy the magician and several singers throughout the ship. There was so much to do among dancing, game shows, karaoke, movies, and exercise classes. We couldn’t even do it all. And the excursions to the islands were great. We highly recommend the boat snorkeling trips in st Maarten and the sulfur springs in st Lucia especially. For a couple who has not cruised much and not for at least 12 years, we couldn’t be happier with this cruise and cruise line and can’t wait to go on another.

I like the room with balcony and the bathroom is bigger than princess cruise. The room services staff was very nice. The dining room is set up nice and roomy and perfect view. The 14 floors buffer food is ok and not much change. Wish could have more variety food to select. Not much Asian food and few staffs seems tired and not much welcome or happy to serve food to guests. The main restaurant food is good, not much activities to celebrate in the dinning during holidays. I don’t feel the festive or holidays decorations in the dinning room. Not much going on for gift shops for the sale like princesses cruise for the fun of the shopping spirit. The lobbies areas are highlighted for the holidays, lots of music and entertaining and bars. Area for seating is plenty and the shows are great. The photo shop is much self service, the staff need little bits of cheering and enthusiastic of happy. I like the 15 floors for the exercise followed by the trails to walk or running. The gym room has good size and not humidity. I wish they could highlight some the activities program on the daily news paper and on TV or announce on over head speaker. I did not see much games or Chinese mah jong activities supplies in the social room or other areas for the guests to relax playing with there family. Over all I do enjoyed my trip and certainly with my families members gathering. But once comes with individual or solo, i was boring little bit.