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Celebrity Equinox Cruise Review to Europe - Western Mediterranean

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 14

Overall rating:

1 out of 5
Celebrity Equinox

7 Night Italy & Mediterranean (Rome To Barcelona)

Sail date: June 27, 2015

Ship: Celebrity Equinox

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

They lost my luggage and did not care at all!!!  All of the great customer service goes out the window once you leave the ship. They take your luggage and kick you off the ship and if your luggage is lost it becomes your problem.  The cruise line doesn't follow up or even look for it, yet they take it from you the night before! My husband and I set sail on the celebrity equinox for our honeymoon on 6/27/15 from Rome. The cruise line took our luggage on board and we did not realize our luggage tags were missing until we started to pack on the 2nd last day before disembarkment. We were required to leave our luggage outside of our room in the hallway the night before disembarkment.  I felt very uncomfortable about this but the cruise line required it. When we departed the boat on 7/4/15 for the port in Barcelona my husband's luggage was there but not mine. I was told to fill out a form and then the staff started preparing for the next cruise. I then called multiple times over the next few days. I was told they did not have the report and I had to send my copy of it multiple times.  Then my husband called and he was told that my luggage was found. The cruise line then called back an hour later and said that was a mistake. They finally refunded only $300 a month later, but that took a month and I had to provide receipts. I lost at least $3000.00 worth of valuables. They refused to admit their mistakes and compensate me adequately. They took my luggage and lost it. They did not follow up on it and made multiple mistakes afterwards.  This was very upsetting. We also were not able to tour Barcelona as we spent the day buying clothes and going to the port to look for my luggage with almost no help from the staff. DO NOT USE THIS CRUISE LINE, THEY ARE AWFUL

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8 Comments

gibson13820    9 years ago

I'm sorry to hear you had such a poor experience on Celebrity. While I've never had this experience I have seen luggage run over on the Tarmac. I hope this doesn't ruin you from traveling again. A vacation should be an adventure... I guess I try to roll with it and make the best of things. Congrats on your marriage!

rayray9    9 years ago

I feel very bad that you have spoken so poorly about Celebrity. Celebrity is my favorite cruise line! I have sailed with them more than five times and waiting to go on a couple more already booked....Every time we had any issues whatsoever and .....there has not been many .....they went way over and beyond to take care of us....Cannot complain at all.....Will continue to sail with them.....

cruzrmike    9 years ago

First of all, it's a ship not a boat. Secondly, in most cases (99%), once your luggage leaves the ship, it is no longer in the hands of the cruise line. The local port authority has jurisdiction over those issues. You should be contacting them. And thirdly, I agree, you packed $3000 worth of valuables in your luggage - sheer stupidity on your part (if that was indeed the true/actual value).

pattikow    9 years ago

again-sorry,not done:)Celebrity is one of my favorite lines. There is so so much info avail to everyone, I wish folks would really take advantage of it! We all would love to have the perfect vacation but chances are, something could go wrong. There is also the factor that individuals need to take more responsibility for things that are under your control- such as replacing the tags as soon as you noticed they were missing. I do hope your next vacation is "good review worthy"!

pattikow    9 years ago

oops-didn't finish! I feel bad that you had a bad experience as C elebrity

pattikow    9 years ago

These comments, while they make valid points, do seem harsh

pooleboy    9 years ago

On all the cruises I have been on you are asked for info re disembarkation and then supplied with relevant labels. If you don't supply the info what do you expect. Best wishes for you married life.

SvetlanaS    9 years ago

You can pull your laggage by yourself in the morning. We did it few times when we was pressed in time.

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