Wonderful Staff and great locations aroind New Zealand, smooth seas and good weather, but not our favourite ship

Celebrity Solstice Cruise Review to South Pacific - Australia

wabell

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 6

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5

Celebrity Solstice

12 Night New Zealand Holiday (Sydney Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 23, 2019

Ship: Celebrity Solstice

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7223

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

Great staff and New Zealand is beautiful. Loved Picton, Napier & Akoroa and Milford Sounds. Christmas day on the ship was disappointing with no Christmas menu and no Christmas Carols or festivities (they had this all on New Years Eve) very disappointed but the staff were amazing. Too much upselling constantly on the ship and constant additional costs for everything when it was already a more expensive cruise with being a Christmas New Year Cruise. Not our favourite ship out of the other couple of cruises we have done. But wonderful staff that made it very memorable.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ports of call

Sydney, Australia

5 out of 5

Picton, New Zealand

5 out of 5

Napier, New Zealand

5 out of 5

Wellington, New Zealand

4 out of 5

Akaroa, New Zealand

5 out of 5

Port Chalmers (Dunedin), New Zealand

4 out of 5

Cruise Dusky Sound

5 out of 5

Cruise Doubtful Sound

5 out of 5

Cruise Milford Sound

5 out of 5

Newcastle, Australia

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

3 Comments

Shh813 4 years ago

Not sure what you expected around the holidays but maybe next time pick a different time to cruise. Celebrity is a 5 star cruiseline all the way.

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Summerholiday 4 years ago

Wow that's a shame we done princess for Christmas it was wonderful they really made it special so much we booked again for this yr !!!!

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cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Cruise sounds amazing but sorry they didn’t celebrate Christmas a little.

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