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Celebrity Equinox Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 61

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5
Celebrity Equinox

7 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 16, 2017

Ship: Celebrity Equinox

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6280

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Great first cruise! WE were celebrating our 25th anniversary and wanted it to be special. Celebrity and crew made it very special! Loved every minute.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
LOVED the Silhouette Dining Room! They always knew what drinks to bring before we even ordered a second one. They knew our names after day one. They treated us lie royalty!

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Loved the entertainment at the ice martini bar. The shows were ALL amazing! And we don't normally go to shows. The only downfall, the pools were always too full.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Loved them all!!

Children's Programs

No kids.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Better than the best! All went above and beyond!

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Perfect!

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Always very clean. Whenever we dirtied a towel there was a clean one to replace it. Loved the mints every night on the pillow!

Ship tip

Get the Balcony, get all of the perks. I really enjoyed calling my kids via Messenger every night so I could tell them about our adventures. Do all the excursions you can.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

4 out of 5
I guess I'm just not a Florida person. I wasn't that impressed, through no fault of the tour guides.

Key West, Florida

5 out of 5
Loved going through the Hemmingway House. I liked the hop on hop off.

Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

5 out of 5
We did the newer semi private excursion of swimming in the lagoon. The ONLY complaint we had was the restaurant they took us too right outside the lagoon. My husband and I both ordered lunch, i got mine almost 40 minutes before he got his. I was done and we were almost ready to leave before he got his food. Service was AWFUL! The restaurant was Kai Pez. Would have liked a little more shopping time at this port.

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
This was probably the best excursion we went on! WE swam in the underground river and caves and caverns. I only wished we had known ahead of time we needed water shoes and a water proof phone cover. That's the only negative I've got.We also had one of theeeee best Mexican lunches! Did some tequilla tasting, had I known that the ship would store it for us we would have bought some. No one explained any of that. Would also liked to have had a little more shopping time at this port.

George Town, Grand Cayman

4 out of 5
We went on the Nautilus. We really enjoyed the scenery on that one! WE went to HELL, more than 10 minutes would have been good. The rum cake factory was amazing! But again only had 10 minutes. Not enough time to taste and decide what to buy. Then we went to the turtle farms, honestly I couldn't hardly watch all those turtles in those little spaces crawling all over each other. Not the place for wildlife to be IMHO.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
We booked the Hop on Hop off excursion. It was never really explained very well what they were doing with our luggage and how we were to get it. We had to ask a few people. WE all met on the ship and we were suppose to fill out luggage tags for all of our luggage. Every single person had 4-5 bags. They would only give 2 to each family or couple. So when we got outside (in the heat) we all had to wait in line one at a time to fill out all of our tags.
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2 Comments

Barbz5768350    7 years ago

Glad you enjoyed cruising. Welcome to your new addiction!

GIL155    7 years ago

Happy 25th. You picked a nice ship on which to celebrate. Your first cruise is a very memorable event.

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