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Celebrity Beyond Cruise Review to Transatlantic

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 10
Helpful Votes: 199

Overall rating:

3.1 out of 5
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Celebrity Beyond

12 Night Transatlantic - Westbound (Barcelona To Cape Liberty)

Sail date: October 12, 2022

Ship: Celebrity Beyond

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6139

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Found price high for overall premium experience Celebrity is usually known for. Staffing issues post pandemic with visas etc similar to airline industry with no pilots. In this case no visas. Book to the max not knowing if minimum staffing will be met. It isn t in my view. Maybe I am too demanding queues at future cruises seems to say I may be. I found my one week cruise on Virgin far superior well staffed working Wi-Fi and not cramped. Not same target demographic but change is good sometimes.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Little hectic not as organized as FLL but good

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
When ship is full ( new ship so most of time) complete disaster at dinner. Select diners don t know they can reserve so arrive as walk inns. Others assigned 830 automatically become walk in with beeper. Do not understand why everyone just needs to reserve according to capacity. Service and outside queue would improve. Ocean view at lunch on sea day in bad weather is a nightmare. They jam 3100 passengers on ship which is really not good for a good cruise. Bars restaurants full service suffers. Lack of adequate staffing per passenger.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Very crowded with full passenger count. Especially when bad weather closes outer decks. Limit of passenger count should be set.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Great overall

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Staff is wonderful overwhelmed frazzled but do their best.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Beautiful ship overall and kept clean except for ocean view at lunch bit of a disaster

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
On transatlantic with bad weather it becomes ocean view as always blocked by bridge. Even when just windy they are blocked. Soundproofing forgotten. can hear neighbour on phone. Asked to change. Should get credited to ocean view rate. Give me the old style balconies. I will probably cancel future infinite verandas will price other cruise lines to decide.

Ship tip

Wait till it’s no longer flagship just ends up being too crowded.

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Ports of call

Malaga, Spain

3 out of 5

Lisbon, Portugal

3 out of 5

Ponta Delgada, Azores

3 out of 5

Cape Liberty (Bayonne), New Jersey

1 out of 5
No shuttle to get out of port area far from transit light rail. Good for containers not for passenger satisfaction
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Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Good but customs don t use facial recognition like port Everglades so much slower.
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7 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     4 months ago

Thanks for sharing
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javawoody    2 years ago

Thanks for the review
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byhisgrace    2 years ago

Thanks for your review
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natelorip    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing.
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Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise
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AuntPinkie    2 years ago

Appreciate your feedback. Sorry you were disappointed.
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PaulzyJC    2 years ago

With all the bragging about this ship, its good to see another point of view from outside the Carribean. On another note: what did you use to type the review? It was a bit hard to read in a few places.
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