Come back to San Diego, Celebrity

Item: Celebrity Eclipse
Rating: 2.5
Author: bowscruise

Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Review

bowscruise

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 5

Helpful Votes: 89

Overall rating:

2.5 out of 5

6 Night Cabo & San Diego (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 01, 2023

Ship: Celebrity Eclipse

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 7106

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 11 months ago

Review summary

Hate cruising out of LA. ————————————————————————-

Embarkation

1 out of 5

LA Sucks! Access, parking and hike to the terminal was horrendous. Once in the terminal, everything was as expected. Rating is due to LA part not Celebrity’s service.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

I’ve experienced the slow decline of food quality and selection over the years but, now the service in the main dining room has slipped a few notches. Ended up closing out the cruise in the Oceanview cafe.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Other than the main dining room.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5

Cannot give less than a single star rating but all of the forward facing cabins on the 7th deck are unacceptable. As I stated in my trans Atlantic Reflection review, there is so much noise from mooring line winches, bow thrusters and anchor chains that sleep in impossible. Celebrity should pay us to stay in any of these cabins!

Ship tip

Do not book any cabin that is forward facing and on the 7th deck.

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Ports of call

San Pedro (Los Angeles), California

1 out of 5

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

3 out of 5

San Diego, California

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

1 out of 5

Again, rating is due to the LA location. Had to walk about 15 minutes with all of our luggage. No assistance or shuttle available. We paid our $20/day fee and drove back to San Diego.

8 Comments

Lawnboy1956 11 months ago

Make sure you do not check the box for automatic upgrades. This is a trap to take your carefully chosen room with an upgrade in “class” and get rid of undesirable cabins. Once they make the change you can’t go back.

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Ruby13 11 months ago

Thank you for sharing. We really enjoyed Mexican Riviera cruise.

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bowscruise 11 months ago

Our first experience with forward facing cabins on the 7th deck was a result of Celebrity upgrading us. The second experience was due to son and daughter in law wanting us to be the babysitters in an adjoining cabin. I explained to them the issues with these cabins prior to our departure. They agree this location is far from desirable.

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Gwbigdog 11 months ago

Oops sorry 😞 thanks

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yk07us 11 months ago

If you already know about the noise issues in this kind of staterooms, why have you chosen the same location?

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cruising2004 11 months ago

Sorry this was not the best experience.

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karlgrgurich 11 months ago

Geez. I had no idea it was the noisy up there! We always stay in the aft. Might have some vibrations but very tolerable!

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javawoody 11 months ago

Interesting

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