Beautiful ship, lots of improvements

Item: Celebrity Edge
Rating: 4.5
Author: bobtuba

Celebrity Edge Cruise Review

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Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5

9 Night Southern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 15, 2019

Ship: Celebrity Edge

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9248

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

A wonderful, relaxing cruise — and Celebrity does so many things so well. I just wish they didn’t try to be so Woke and Artsy.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

New terminal, speedy process. Parking in a nearby structure was crowded and not as convenient as at other ports, but it only was $15 per day.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

The food was for the most part excellent. Occasionally though, there were items in the buffet that were not warm.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

We are not fans of the acrobats / aerial performers, and we wish Celebrity didn’t force-integrate them into all possible stage shows. Live musicians quite good (but we missed some string ensembles).

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

The entire complement was friendly and helpful.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Spotless. When compared to the Solstice class design, more hits than misses. Love what they did to the “atrium” area, much better. Love the way they moved guest services and shore excursions out of that area. The “Gateway” design is wonderful compared to other ships. We finally got used to the infinite verandah, and it wasn’t locked up all that often. The hand washing stations are a brilliant idea. Staterooms were nice — the improved bathroom door is alone worth the price of admission. Jogging track: Brilliant. Rooftop Garden — very nice, pity you have to pay extra for the food there. Also love the high windows and new seating arrangements in the Oceanview. “The Club” is a great new secondary venue. Now for a couple of misses: Eden is a colossal 3-deck waste of space for the most part, with a magnificent ramp that leads ... nowhere. The Blu restaurant is now pretty much landlocked with only a poor partial view outside, and the acoustics in there are terrible. The ambiance was better in the other 4 MDR offerings. The Persian Garden improvements didn’t rip us out of our easy chairs.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

They put Eden to good use as the waiting area for self debarkation.

2 Comments

wgammon1 3 years ago

Glad you had a good cruise. Thanks for the great review.

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Fiesta83 4 years ago

Thanks for the positive review

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