Oh how the mighty have fallen

Item: Celebrity Eclipse
Rating: 4.2
Author: Richardo43

Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review to Europe - Western Europe

Richardo43

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 14

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5

10 Night Lisbon & Canaries (Southampton Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 28, 2017

Ship: Celebrity Eclipse

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 8103

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Ship is very good but in relation to the previous cruise with Celebrity in the they are cutting back on to many things and these are too many to want to sail with them again, their points membership appears to be a waste of time and other cruise lines are more fun and better equipped.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Easy no problems

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Dining was excellent

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Not west end quality and in some cases left wondering what it was all about

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Large cabin with a view of the helipad deck, well looked after by the cabin staff but lacking some of the refinements that we had on the previous cruise with Celebrity too many cut backs, no automatic upgrade despite booking a year in advance in fact the agent did not even know we were entitled to an upgrade, no slippers, no shower caps, no shoe polish, no fine range of toiletries etc etc, the evening meals are cut back from five courses to three

Ship tip

book mid ships unless you want to spend the day looking down the toilet going over the Bay of Biscay in rough weather

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Ports of call

Southampton (London), England

4 out of 5

Lisbon, Portugal

4 out of 5

Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Canary Islands

4 out of 5

Funchal, Madeira

5 out of 5

You need the weather to see this port, last trip was too stormy and we could not see anything, this time weather excelent

Thumbs Up 3

La Coruna, Spain

5 out of 5

Nice place to walk aroung

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

2 Comments

Sampool 7 years ago

We booked last week and got a free upgrade

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bdun41251 7 years ago

Fully agree about the cut backs on many previous free gratis extras, Celebrity were a 5 star cruise line some years back but they are now struggling to hold onto a 4 star rating in my opinion.....

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