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Celebrity Millennium at Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier. Photo courtesy of Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity also has one dedicated expedition ship that sails year-round in the Galapagos Islands – Celebrity Xpedition. In 2017, she’ll be joined by two additional ships that will also be deployed in the Galapagos year-round: Celebrity Xperience and Celebrity Xploration .
Dining is a real event aboard Celebrity’s ships. Photo courtesy of Celebrity Cruises
Dining-wise, Celebrity offers a stylish experience, with modern touches spicing up menus that, on the whole, are on par with other mainstream lines like Royal Caribbean and Holland America. Dining service is excellent, and the line’s main dining rooms are uniformly stunning across the fleet. Guests can opt to either dine traditionally — at a fixed time, with the same companions every night — or choose “Celebrity Select Dining,” which lets you vary your dining time day by day.
In terms of specialty dining, the newer Solstice-class ships win the prize, supplementing their main restaurants and buffet with four specialty options each: the high-end Tuscan Grille for steaks and pastas; the European-themed Murano, featuring table-side cooking, carving, and flambГ©; Blu, a spa-cuisine option for guests occupying the ships’ AquaClass staterooms; and either an Asian restaurant or Qsine, which serves an eclectic international menu with super-creative presentations.
Celebrity’s older Millennium-class ships aren’t far behind on the specialty dining front. From the beginning, each has offered a specialty option intended to recreate a dining experience from the golden age of transatlantic passenger liners, with period decor, music, and menus. Recently, Celebrity has also begun retrofitting these ships with some of the best features of their newer Solstice-class fleetmates, so each of them now has two or three specialty options apiece, or will soon.
Along with style, Celebrity is known for its service, which rarely disappoints. In the restaurants, waiters and sommeliers are poised and professional, while cabin stewards are both friendly and precise. If you book a suite, you also get the services of a tuxedo-clad butler, who’ll bring you afternoon tea, shine your shoes, and otherwise make sure you don’t have to lift a finger.
Amble up to the futuristic Observation Lounge for a nightcap. Photo courtesy of Celebrity Cruises.
At night, Celebrity offers all the popular cruise entertainments, including Vegas-style musical revues, comedians, and passenger talent shows, but it’s the smaller touches that tend to stand out, like the a cappella singing groups that walk around the ship in the evening, performing in various lounges.
Lounges in particular are a high point for the line, which offers plenty of quiet spots to get away from it all during the evening hours. While the older ships have a clubby feel to them, the line’s newer vessels are futuristic and modern. Both, however, feel very soothing at night, thanks to some clever design touches like recessed lighting and backlit accents.
For kids and teens, the line offers a supervised program with different activities for the various age groups. There’s also group babysitting in the playroom, both late nights and for a couple of hours on port days.
Need to relax? Head on up to the AquaSpa aboard the line’s ships for a taste of the good life. Photo courtesy of Celebrity Cruises
Fleetwide, the onboard atmosphere balances enriching experiences with others that are just plain relaxing and fun. Foodies can sign up for culinary tours, wine and mixology events, and “Food as Art” demonstrations. Guests interested in fitness and health can take a seminar on Chinese herbal medicine or acupuncture; get an actual acupuncture treatment at the spa; or take a yoga, spinning, Pilates, or tai chi class at the gym.
There are also stargazing sessions, language-learning workshops, and talks by visiting experts from Smithsonian Journeys, tailored to the cruise region: archaeologists or art historians on Mediterranean cruises, marine biologists on Bermuda sailings, naturalists on Alaska sailings, etc.
And then there’s pure fun: dance classes, game-show-style trivia contests, karaoke, Nintendo Wii and XBox Kinect sessions, and pool games — including pool volleyball matches between guests and the ship’s officers, who sometimes play fully clothed in their uniforms.
A real lawn at sea? Celebrity figured out how to make it happen. Photo courtesy of Celebrity Cruises.
“Modern” is another word you could use for Celebrity. On the newer Solstice-class ships, you can check out an iPad from the guest services desk and take a self-guided tour of your ship’s art collection. iPads are also used as menus at the Qsine specialty restaurants aboard several of the Celebrity ships, and can even be bought duty-free on several Celebrity ships at the Celebrity iLounge, a high-style space where you can also take classes from Apple-certified staff, browse the web on MacBook Pro laptops, and buy other Apple gadgets.
Celebrity Solstice cruising the Caribbean in the Virgin Islands. Photo courtesy of Celebrity Cruises
If we had to choose one word to describe Celebrity Cruises. it would be “style.”
The line got its start in 1989 as a project of the Chandris family, who’d operated cargo and passenger ships in Greece and beyond since 1915. Celebrity made such a splash, so quickly, that it was bought by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line just nine years later. It has operated as a sister line to Royal Caribbean ever since, while the trademark “X” in the line’s logo is a reminder of it’s origins: It’s really the Greek letter chi. for Chandris.
From the beginning, Celebrity has been known for high-end design, cutting-edge contemporary art, superior cuisine, and great spas. Its newest ships, the Solstice class, take all that to the next level, with multiple dining options, innovative public spaces, and a truly high-end aesthetic. Fleetwide, the line offers a glamorous, exciting experience while also keeping its prices within reach of the mainstream crowd.
The line jettisoned the last vestiges of the 1990’s Celebrity when it transferred the former Celebrity Century out of the fleet in 2015, leaving only ships built since 2000 in the line’s primary fleet. Celebrity has also been hard at work updating its Millennium-class ships (think Celebrity Infinity and Celebrity Summit ) with features found aboard the line’s larger, newer Solstice-class.
But Celebrity has also shown renewed interest in its Galapagos Expedition product. What’s that? You didn’t know Celebrity operated a dedicated ship in the Galapagos? They do – and now, Celebrity is preparing to grow its expedition fleet in the Galapagos Islands in 2017 with the addition of two heavily-refurbished vessels, which will be renamed Celebrity Xperience and Celebrity Xploration.