Celebrity Eclipse

We had a great time! We look forward to our next cruise vacation.

We have cruised on Celebrity for more than 10 years. The crew is second to none. This time it seemed way more crowded, with a rushed itinerary, and the cruise director was to over the top. His daily announcements were almost 15 minutes long, the on board entertainment was OK most nights, the best was the live music in the smaller lounges. The main dinning room is FANTASTIC. The cabins and verandas are very nice. Celebrity does have the embarkation and disembarkation down to a science, works very well. While Celebrity’s cruise prices seem to continue to increase, in addition to these increases, In my opinion Celebrity is trying to identify ways to add fees and charges of all types. In port shuttle buses, that used to be included, now there is a charge. Up-charges on drink packages like at the martini bar, 3 bucks more for a larger martini, really why not just get two smaller ones. And everyone of these up-charge slips provide a line for an additional tip. And specialty restaurant are only a fare deal on the first day of the cruise when they are discounted by 30%. In port excursions, in the daily flyer, Celebrity creates the impression the only Hop on Hop off bus is available only at guest relations, all one need do is get off the ship and you can find the same hop on hop off bus at a lower price than Celebrity. So after 10 years of loyalty, i think for our next cruise vacation, we may need to shop around.

We enjoyed the ship and all of the ports. We did independent (local) tours at Rostock (to Berlin) and St. Petersburg and both were outstanding. Our cabin steward did a great job and it seemed everyone on the ship was friendly and helpful. We made some great memories and would definitely recommend this cruise to others.

We had a really great cruise and would consider Celebrity again.

This was a super cruise with interesting and appealing ports of call - would recommend it wholeheartedly! We really enjoyed working with Raymond Wright from who helped us with the booking as well as several questions along the way. We booked early enough (October 2017 for a July 2018 sailing) that we could watch the excursion offers from and pick up some good sale prices. Ray was more helpful with information about the cruise than the Celebrity website (which does not work well on tablets, and admittedly so by Celebrity staff). He also had good suggestions for hotel bookings in Amsterdam though we ended up finding a great hotel there on our own.