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Celebrity Millennium Cruise Review to Alaska - Gulf of Alaska

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 87

Overall rating:

4 out of 5
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Celebrity Millennium

Alaska Northern Glacier Cruise

Sail date: August 15, 2014

Ship: Celebrity Millennium

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 7015

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 10 years ago

Review summary

Excellent service and staff.  Kids program is beyond my expectation.  My 9 year old son kept going back to the club every day. Buffet has a lot of options, better than I expected; the main dining restaurant food is OK but not as good as I expected for Celebrity.  There are people replacing copper pipes with PVC ones in our hallway almost everyday, which is a little noisy and annoying.  They did not smoke in the hallway but left strong smoke smell.  I wish they do these maintenance jobs when the ship is not cruising.  We booked a shuttle bus trip to white pass summit at Skagway, which was supposed to take us to the suspension bridge, the bus driver/guide just cancelled it after we boarded.  We complained to excursion dept. afterwards and they refund us $21 dollars each.  But it is not just the matter of money.  We missed the opportunity to see what we wanted.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
clean and felt spacious as they put mirrors on one whole wall.

Ports of call

Vancouver (Canada Place), British Columbia

3 out of 5

Cruise Inside Passage, Alaska

3 out of 5

Ketchikan, Alaska

5 out of 5
must see salmon run at Creek Street and it is free

Icy Strait Point (Hoonah), Alaska

3 out of 5
not much to do and zip line is a expensive 90 second

Juneau, Alaska

5 out of 5
did see whales, see lions and eagles on a whale watching trip

Skagway, Alaska

3 out of 5
White pass summit is very famous but to me there is really not much to see on an expensive rail trip

Cruise Hubbard Glacier

5 out of 5
best part of the cruise, awesome views

Seward (Anchorage), Alaska

5 out of 5
recommendations: Exit Glacier, only cost $10 round trip; or cruise for glacier/seal life
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1 Comment

glomarrone    9 years ago

I guess that there just isn't enough time to do the maintenance that they have to do since the ships sail constantly.  We had a leak on our deck on our last cruise and it took several days for them to fix it and remove the pail of water they kept under the leaking pipe.  Plumbing is a continuous problem on ships.