Celebrity Eclipse Family Veranda Stateroom UD

FILTHY and worn out. Large and spacious, but that carpet was AWFUL and I had to wear shoes all the time.

We liked the opportunity to bid on an upgrade which apparently included a premium liquor package (which was very nice). We ended up in a family veranda, which huge and super nice (the largest cabin we have ever had). The Eclipse is an older ship, and the newer ships don’t have family verandas or even larger staterooms unless you want to pay thousands more per person. That’s a shame. We really liked the room, even though the walls were paper thin within the cabin. My daughter loved having her own room and storage spaces. There was lots of storage throughout the cabin, but the unattached furniture was dated and old, our live plant needed some attention (lots of brown spots on the leaves), and there were still only two electrical receptacles. Our cabin had a slightly larger veranda than the veranda on the other floor. I hated the pillows - think MyPillow with the least amount of stuffing. It appeared that the ship wasn't completely ready for new passengers on the first day. There was no Kleenex in bathroom, and there were no robes in our large state room. This was fixed on the second day. (It almost seemed that we had an extra day in Honolulu just to charge more for this cruise and extend it by one day.) The only non-attached furniture in the master bedroom was the two beds, and there was a lot of wasted space in that room. A dressing table or chair would have been nice rather than having to sit on the bed (or moving furniture around). Someone else’s empty makeup travel bag and swimsuit top were left in the small bedroom, but it wasn't immediately noticeable (back of a bottom shelf). Sadly, it was too cold to use our balcony for four of the five sea days. (We had a mid-May cruise.) We liked that they gave us two small bottles of hand sanitizer at the beginning of the cruise. Dropping anchor and all docking noises were super loud in our room. It felt like an earthquake sometimes. Our faucet dripped at the handle when turned on. Lighting in the suite was not great for reading. No lamps, just ceiling lights. There was one brighter light in the ceiling over the couch, but it shone more on your head than your book. We didn't figure out that the brighter light could be moved around until our last evening (by standing on the couch and pushing it). Our refrigerator wasn’t stocked with any snacks for the entire cruise, though there was pop and liquor. It was overpriced. We liked the evening chocolates, though we would have preferred milk chocolate (we received dark chocolate). I thought it was kind of tacky that they didn’t give us any chocolate on our last night. We missed having towel animals and different napkin folds in the dining room. We couldn’t hear announcements that mattered to us, like tender instructions. I called Guest Services and was told there was no way to turn them on through the speakers, but we could hear them on the television - yet we heard a loud crew-only message blasting in our room while one of us was sleeping late.