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Celebrity Constellation Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 75

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Celebrity Constellation

12 Night Greek Isles & Mediterranean (Rome To Venice)

Sail date: May 31, 2016

Ship: Celebrity Constellation

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 1139

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

Celebrity's website is quite bad and it's difficult to get sufficient information, especially about shore excursions.  Was constantly being advised to check back later.  An email I sent through their site was sent back undeliverable.  Reviews are often not even of the cruise/excursion in question.  They really need to overhaul their entire IT department.  Apparently they no longer bother to send out luggage tags and you have to print your own. 

 

Our room was uncomfortably warm despite having it looked at twice.  My alarm clock also displays temperature so these numbers are not just guesses.  Despite keeping it to the coolest setting possible are room was an average of 75 degrees.  The lowest it ever went was 72 degrees, and at one point it actually reached an extremely miserable 82 degrees.  I'm wondering if this is a Celebrity problem as the same thing happened on a cruise last year but at least we were given a fan to use (and a partial credit toward a future cruise, which is why we gave them a second chance).  This time we were told no fan was available and it was uncomfortable a large portion of the time.  75 degrees is not air conditioning! 

 

Smaller things, like small cheap bath towels, absolutely no food of any kind available after 1 am, etc...

 

Positive things too though, like tasty food, friendly staff (sommelier Richard is quite nice), was able to request a body pillow.  Our itinerary was changed mid cruise due to the labor strikes in Greece and the staff at guest relations were helpful in placing ship to shore calls for us so we could adjust out plans accordingly.  Unfortunately, a few nights later when we inquired about rumored metro strikes in Athens we were given misinformation which pretty much ruined that day for us. 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Too hot! Decent size though. Small balcony.
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3 Comments

paddy12    8 years ago

Re heat in your cabin - my May cruise on RCI vision of the seas was "freezing" as AC was stuck on high cold! Could not turn it down or off. My cabin steward did everything she could so I then took complaint to front desk. Eventually about 3 days in it was "fixed". I'm the wrong person for a cold cabin. I'm permanently cold + go on holiday for heat. Discount cert received for next cruise

stevewhitren    8 years ago

Totally agree re web site,very hard to navigate and get any sense out of...👎

deboftheseas    8 years ago

Thanks for the info, we are on Constellation Sept 8th for 11 nights, in Concierge Class 2. what type room did you have? we also find excursion info not detailed enough but have spent about $1500 on their excursions. whatorts did you like best, and how was it getting off in Santorini? I B booked a tour there just to guarantee being off on the first or second boat. back to room temp, I've seen balcony rooms heat right up B if curtains aren't closed and the sun is on your side of the ship, it makes it harder to cool down

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