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Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe

cutler1662

Contributor Level: Third Mate

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 109

Overall rating:

5 out of 5

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14 Night Scandinavia & Russia (Southampton Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 08, 2015

Ship: Celebrity Eclipse

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 2114

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

This was our first cruise on Celebrity - and it will not be our last! We were celebrating our 50th anniversary, and chose to go first class all the way. So we booked Suite accommodations on the Eclipse. Boarding the ship was a breeze, and immediately after finding our stateroom, we met our Butler, Harold. And true to his word, he handled everything we needed - from dining reservations to breakfast in our stateroom to laundry and so on. We then discovered Luminae, a separate dining area for suite guests - spacious and never crowded with top flight service people. The ship was elegant, yet not overstated, and immaculate. The destinations were all excellent - especially St. Petersburg. Take this cruise if you have the chance.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Excellent. Luminae, dining room for suite guests, was a huge plus. Oceanview Cafe had huge selection and excellent food. Specialty restaurants we used (Murano and Tuscan Grille) had over the top menus and food (but were not impressed by service at Tuscan - very disjointed - we had about 5 servers).

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Really enjoyed the Corning Hot Glass presentation.

Entertainment

1 out of 5

A couple of excellent programs, but for the most part, the evening performances left something to be desired. Live entertainment at pool was very good, as was central Atrium performances - especially enjoyed the Oom-Pah band in Germany.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Harold, our butler, was superb. Handled every request, and always had a smile on his face.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Plenty of room. HOWEVER - we were directly below the Oceanview Cafe and the noise of people walking and service carts being rolled was not good. Get a suite on a lower deck if possible.

Ports of call

Southampton (London), England

5 out of 5

Zeebrugge (Bruges), Belgium

5 out of 5

A great walking city.

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Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany

5 out of 5

Tallinn, Estonia

5 out of 5

St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

5 out of 5

Recommend excursion from a company that limits to 20 people or so. We used Shore Excursions - and they were great.

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Helsinki, Finland

3 out of 5

Probably a nice city, but a letdown after 2 days in St. Petersburg.

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Stockholm, Sweden

5 out of 5

Copenhagen, Denmark

5 out of 5

Canal cruise was excellent.

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7 Comments

Jazzyme 9 years ago

yes its still the same as quoted on the link by perditax👍

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Jazzyme 9 years ago

we returned from the Eclipse on Sat 10th Oct. The oceanview buffet is open 24hrs. They start to clear away breakfast around 10.30 but limit to a small area for late breakfast until 11.30 when the lunch time food starts coming out. Lunch is until abt 2.30 but again there is a small area left with lunch until abt 3.30 when afternoon tea open sandwiches cakes scones etc are served. Evening meals start around 6pm but of course Moonlight Sonata the main restaurant opens for the evening also Blu and speciality restaurants. Blu is also open for breakfast but for Aqua class guests only. i don't know what food is served in Oceanview in evenings as we never went there late. Hope this helps ☺

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perditax 9 years ago

Look at the last page, buffet serves breakfast quite late. http://www.beyondships2.com/uploads/8/2/4/5/8245255/eclipse_sea.pdf

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Sampool 9 years ago

We have booked on celebrity eclipse for Sept 2016, I've heard that once breakfast is over there's no more food available till lunch time, could anyone tell me if this is the case as we don't always make breakfast. On other cruises we have been on food was available 24hrs a day.

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Sampool 9 years ago

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carolinerayner9 9 years ago

We are going on in a few weeks what was the food like in the luminae

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Jillmarshall 9 years ago

Glad you had a good time we are doing this trip next June would you recommend getting a Russian visa or excursions I have been told it's not great on your own .

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