Great ship, excellent itinerary, very poor food

Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
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Helpful Votes: 39

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Celebrity Eclipse

9 Night Southern Caribbean New Year (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 27, 2015

Ship: Celebrity Eclipse

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9157

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

We have sailed on the Celebrity Eclipse before and were very disappointed that the food service had deterioted so badly.  The ship is still beautiful, well kept and still has an excellent staff.  Our cabin steward was one of the best we ever had, and customer relations staff went above and beyond to help resolve an issue with our travel agency. But we were very disappointed with the meals. The food in the main dining room varied from mediocre to awful! Tried the main dining three times and it never got any better.  Ate upstairs in the Oceanview cafe and had mixed results but in general it was good for cafeteria type food.  Won't go on this ship again.

The shows were also a mixed bag, first big show was excellent and the singers and dancers were very good.  The second show was awful despite the best efforts of some very good singers and dancers.  The Beatles group was excellent and some of the other shows were OK. The four islands we stopped at were great and shore excursions were excellent. Overall it was a very good cruise but the food  service was bad enough to say never again on this ship.  Will still try Celebrity again (6 cruises with them). But one more bad food service and we will look elsewhere for our Cruise Line.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 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

5 out of 5
great location, has larger size balcony.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

St. John's, Antigua

5 out of 5

Bridgetown, Barbados

5 out of 5

Castries, St. Lucia

5 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

5 out of 5
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2 Comments

sarahmarc    8 years ago

We loved the food....thought both the dining room and buffet was amazing. Sushi made fresh daily. This is my 6th cruise but first on celebrity...no complaints here...

mesagraywolf    8 years ago

We sailed on the Nov 16, 2015 sailing, our second sailing on the Eclipse and felt the same way with the main dining room offerings and the entertainment productions were a big disappointment. on top of that we booked concierge class and felt it was a great waste of money. We didn't get anything more than veranda class m

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