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Celebrity Reflection Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

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Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 3

Overall rating:

3.3 out of 5
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Celebrity Reflection

5 Night Key West & Perfect Day (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 04, 2024

Ship: Celebrity Reflection

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8353

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 10 days ago

Review summary

Celebrity is a great brand, just really disappointed in this old run down ship with employees that seemed to not be fully trained

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Flawless easy embarkation

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
Main dining had a limited and repetitive menu with really no imagination. Specialty dining (Tuscan) Appetizers and Italian options were good to excellent, Husband’s steak was definitely not Prime as listed and I have seen better at a Sizzler.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
We did trivia, good, Silent Disco was super fun and we loved the ABBA sing-a-long. The pool games were disorganized and seemed to make the rules up as they went along!

Entertainment

1 out of 5
Celebrity needs more live music and better DJ’s I heard YMCA more in these 5 days than in my life! Magician Comedian was just embarrassingly awful, comedian was a disillusioned pastor wannabe. The musical acts in contrast were quite good!

Children's Programs

No children with us.

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Positive, curteous, and wanted to please but just poorly trained. Took endless attempts to get coffee in the main dining room for breakfast, tons of staff there in the morning but just not working together at all. One day we had bad weather so they moved activities indoors but they refused to open interior bars. We had a room full in the ensemble lounge for trivia and the bar was closed. Had to go all the way to deck 14 for a drink. It is just laziness . Our room steward was excellent and attentive and addressed any concern we had immediately.

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
The ship is clean, layout was fine, but old and really showing wear. The staterooms are particularly rough looking.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Loved the location and the view felt the beds were comfortable, but again desperately needs a remodel. Needs bedside outlets, better lighting etc. Just a cabin refresh

Ship tip

Book 1 specialty dining ahead of time! The main dining room will get old quick

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

5 out of 5
We loved FLL no Celebrity excursion but Las Olas street and the boat taxis were an awesome start to the vacation

Key West, Florida

4 out of 5
No Celebrity excursion Key West is friendly and fun. We would describe it as a cleaner beachy version of Broadway in Nashville or Bourbon in New Orleans

Bimini, Bahamas

4 out of 5
No Celebrity Excursion. We rented golf carts and explored. Radio Beach is gorgeous!

Perfect Day At Coco Cay, Bahamas

4 out of 5
We booked Hideaway Beach and so glad we did. No kids to deal with!! Drink Package worked on the island. The food was ok not great

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
We were off the ship in no time self carry barely broke stride.
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3 Comments

Bigmoma     3 days ago

Thanks for sharing. That’s a shame. We loved the ship and the employees were wonderful. We just went in October. We had a great time and loved everything.

natelorip     9 days ago

Thanks for sharing.

cpd407     9 days ago

Soorybit wasn't up to your expectations. Thanks for sharing.

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