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Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe

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4.5 out of 5
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Celebrity Eclipse

14 Night Scandinavia & Russia (Southampton Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 02, 2017

Ship: Celebrity Eclipse

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7141

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Overall, the trip was amazing. We already booked our next cruise on the Edge. Unfortunately it's not until February 2019. Hopefully we will book another one before then. We plan on doing all our future cruise with Celebrity.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Quick and efficient

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Main dining room was great. Our waiters, Hayden & Ford were terrific. Food was good. We loved the specialty restaurants. Food was great. I not a big buffet fan, but there were tons of choices and the staff was amazing.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Lots of choices but hard to find things we were interested in. Not a lot to do on sea days. We like trivia, bingo, lectures, movies, tea time. Needed more of those.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
We went to all the shows. They were all enjoyable.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Service was excellent everywhere on the ship. From the public bathrooms, Ocean View Café and especially our waiters in the main dining room and our room steward. Sue, the cruise director was terrific.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Couldn't ask for anything more. We were very happy.

Ship tip

Very accessible.

Ports of call

Southampton (London), England Did not visit port

Zeebrugge (Bruges), Belgium

1 out of 5
We missed our tour by four minutes, took a long time to get off ship because I have a scooter and had to wait for assistance so we ended up in seaside town, not Bruges. That was worse thing on our trip.

Copenhagen, Denmark

4 out of 5
Everything was good here except the handicap lifts by the stores by the dock were broken. Excursion was good.

Stockholm, Sweden

5 out of 5

Tallinn, Estonia

4 out of 5
Estonia was nice but our tour director could have focused on different things.

St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

5 out of 5
Favorite city-plenty of time to explore all the highlights. We had a private 3 day tour with an accessible van-though Sage Traveling. I highly recommend it to your handicap guests.

Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany

5 out of 5
Liked the port, would have loved to go to Berlin but I think it would have been a lot of driving for one day. Also, the cost was crazy for the accessible tour with a van. We were supposed to get a shared van but once again we lucked out an had a private tour.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Easy and quick.
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4 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     3 months ago

Thanks for sharing

deconz    6 years ago

Nice review thanks

faithman43    7 years ago

Have fun on your cruise! Hopefully you haven't paid in full yet! Whether you have or haven't I would highly suggest you go through Costco next time! NOBODY can beat the deal they offer! For instance I don't care where you book your cruise they all charge exactly the same thing (in most cases to the penny). But where it makes a difference with Costco is they offer a shipboard credit or a Costco gift card (in most cases both)! And even better if you are an executive member (which in my opinion if you are a regular shopper it's like having a "free" membership to have) you get an additional 2% off)! But just in case there's something better than that out there...PLEASE let us know!

Live2TravelNow    7 years ago

Doing the Eclipse in February. Love Celebrity, will be 7th cruise with them.

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