14 Day Birthday Celebration Cruise on Celebrity Eclipse

Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 70

Overall rating:

4 out of 5
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Celebrity Eclipse

14 Night Exotic Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 21, 2016

Ship: Celebrity Eclipse

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9344

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

We selected this cruise to celebrate my wife's 60th birthday.  She had never had 2 weeks off work in her life!  The itinerary, Aruba, overnight in Curacao, Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua, St Kitts, and St Maarten are all ports we have visited repeatedly and enjoy.  We booked a Concierge Class cabin on deck 9 and were very satisfied.  We prefer Concierge for its extra amenties, like sparkling wine, flowers, fruit, and a full breakfast menu for room service.  Service as usual on Celebrity was excellent.  We enjoy late dining at a table for 2, and the menus in the main dining room were quite good.  My wife enjoys seafood every night, and it was not repeated and included lobster.  We did eat in Toscano specialty restaurant one night on her birthday.  We were also invited to dine with the Staff Captain in Luminae, the suite restaurant, one night with two other couples.  The buffet pizza is quite good, very thin crust, and available till midnight.  There were only 3 production shows in 2 weeks, which was a bit disappointing.  What they did have was a series of afternoon and evening shows featuring some onboard cast singers and other singers throughout the weeks.  The passengers were a bit older than most 7 day cruise passengers on this 14 day sailing, and English couples were highly represented.

While Celebrity has done away with formal nights, they have Chic Evenings, there were a significant number of tuxedoes and long gowns, which we prefer.  There were many passengers booking onboard, and especially for more 2 week sailings.  Some passengers were even sailing back to back 2 week cruises.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 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

Ship tip

This is one of the only Celebrity Solstice class ships that still has the glass blowing demonstrations.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5

Bridgetown, Barbados

5 out of 5

Castries, St. Lucia

5 out of 5

St. John's, Antigua

5 out of 5

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

5 out of 5
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6 Comments

deboftheseas    8 years ago

You can still dress up formal, its just not a requirement, they call it elegant chic now...designer jeans are even ok

Timrob    8 years ago

If you want formal opt for Cunard

Dottiedot2    8 years ago

We are on the eclipse in May, Baltic cruise for 2.weeks. Staying in concierge cabin on deck 9. This will be our first ever cruise celebrating my 60 th birthday.

nelson247attnet    8 years ago

My husband I leave in three weeks to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. We have never been to any of the ports previously. The longest crises we have been on before this is 10 days. So we are looking forward to the few extra days. We have made arrangements to renew our vows on the beach in St Kitts. We are booked concierge class deck 10. We are looking forward to breakfast on our balcony!!

larmara    8 years ago

It is a pity that Celebrity have stopped their formal nights and are becoming like all the other Cruise Lines, when you book with Celebrity or other Cruise Lines of this class (5*) you expect better things but the way they are going you may as well book any old line as we appear to be getting the same as cheaper cruise lines

deboftheseas    8 years ago

Hi John, a lady I work with did your exact cruise in January and she is still swooning over it, we are both travel agents and attended a Celebrity function last night, they have a lot of nice new additions coming soon, and a new ship, Celebrity Edge in 2018. keep on cruising!

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