Traditional ABC southern caribbean cruise aboard Celebrity Beyond is still a dream vacation ‼️
Celebrity Beyond Cruise Review
8 Night Aruba Bonaire & Curacao (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)
Sail date: September 21, 2024
Ship: Celebrity Beyond
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 9300
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 1 month ago
Review summary
You know a cruise line is great when their Embarkation and Departure services are even remotely good! Cruise Embarkation Day E-day was the easiest and best and most courteous & comfortable. Fort Lauderdale is one of the world's best cruise ports with air conditioning and places to sit and smiling port authority staff. Celebrity always proactively serves their guests from port to boarding, including cold water, usually offering a choice of lemon, orange or cucumber water, and often cool damp towels on hot boarding days. As always, the people of Celebrity, the crew and staff (who always appear happy to see you coming aboard), even the photographers, who make all the difference in excellent quality of passenger care. Pro tip: If given a choice between cruising from Miami or Fort Lauderdale, whenever possible, sail from the latter. FLL is a better and nicer airport and the same goes for the port terminals. When you add to that the significant difference in personal safety (less crime), and vastly improved chance of getting a driver who speaks English, then you have a truly clear choice made for you. Fort Lauderdale, Florida is safer, cleaner, nicer, more hospitable, more comfortably spacious, and more travel-friendly.Embarkation
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
Dinner on the Edge
not really worth the extra expense for the specialty dining experience not nearly as good as Blunot noticeably better than any of the four complimentary main dining venuesI guess it has a good sunset view but is there even a bad one anywhere on Beyondbesidesthe so called Magic carpets one big expensive Mehit is not what you think it isit never moves not reallyit doesn't really DO anything you know that main promenade elevator bar on Royal Caribbean Oasis class ships?That is way better and funner than this without any view at all.At least it goes up and down as you drink your beverage.Magic Carpet? Actually just a stationary red windowed unnecessary glassed room that hangs off the side of decks 5, 12, and sometimes 16 (apex), decks that already had perfectly good views by the way, and guess what, it spends most days closed and roped off!!!! It is so poorly thought out and engineered that it was closed 1 entire leg of our cruise three-peat. It breaks down so much they have stopped even moving it from port position to sea day position, basically deck 12 or 5 depending on which. I love Celebrity Edge Class ships and will sail them frequently and for as long as possible. They almost perfect.Why they decided to center their iconography, marketing and so much effort and expense on such an engineering and design fail is beyond me!How does it keep showing up on the next ship and never ever better.It is worthless on Edge, Apex, and Beyond. I will report back on Ascent next month!Why?
Craft Social Bar
High end smoked bourbon and flavored old fashioned cocktail specialty sports bar! Sorry, if they didn't play your "football" team's game, sit down and order the best whiskey drink of your life, mate!Please don't sleep on the "Oreo" old fashioned! Chocolate liqueur, vanilla spritz, chocolate shavings and smoked Rabbit Hole single barrel bourbon hand-crafted and smoked in front of your increasingly lubricated taste buds. Savor. Slow. Sense every second. Seize the moment. Remember this always. I did.
Café Al Bacio
yummy, I recommend you sit and relax and enjoy, they will serve you with real china cups and saucers and spoons, specially coffee and tea and frozen Starbucks style confectionery drinks and frappes and specialty cocktails.Do not sleep on these specialty cocktails. Order the 1888 and thank me later.
Blu
The best restaurant at any price point on any ship on any cruise line at sea, period (and yes we have the experience to say so)!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ You can order from their signature Clean Cuisine curated meno or from any of the FOUR different main dining menus! If you cannot find something you like here, I have no where to send you but maybe a psychiatrist or the Oprah suite on Paradise Island.
Onboard Activities
The Shops
love the X Collection ‼️
Entertainment
The Casino
Had a lovely and profitable time, came home with three Aqua Class Instant Reward certificates for or next three cruises from this three leg "Back 3 Back" cruise! I win and my wife spends!You can't win if you don't spin! Great casino host! Great service! Prompt hand pays! People were winning! Very fun, full but not crowded, excellent beverage service. Wide variety of slots and table games.
The Theatre
great shows , Arte! and Elements!, not to be missed if you get a chance, take a theatre tour.
Service and Staff
Ship Quality
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Disembarkation
Traveler Photos
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