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Celebrity Edge is the third class, or type, of ship in the Celebrity Cruises Fleet. The first ship was Celebrity Edge in 2018, followed by Celebrity Apex in 2020. After spending time on the ship, and talking to cruise passengers, I review this new class of ship and discuss what is new and different, and what is good or poor about the ship - and who I think it is best for. This should help you decide if the Celebrity Edge ships are right for your cruising vacation.
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what are the best and the worst things
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about celebrity edge class of ships from
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Celebrity Cruises hi I'm Gary Bembridge
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and this is another of my tips for
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Travis I have visited and toured
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celebrity edge and I thought I would
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share with you the things that I think
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really work on the ship the things I'm
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less sure about to help you decide if
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celebrity edge and the other celebrity
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edge class ships are the right ship for
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you first of all let's talk a little bit
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about some facts and figures so
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Celebrity Cruises has three different
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classes of ship there millennium class
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which is their oldest class they have
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Solstice class and then now have the
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edge class and there will be at least
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four of these ships joining the fleet
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over the next couple of years the
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celebrity edge and Celebrity apex and
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more to come celebrity edge ifs hold
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just over 2,900 passages but an
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advantage of being a big ship is it also
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means that it has lots of choice and
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lots of different options and facilities
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on board so what are the hardware and
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design changes that they have introduced
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with the edge class of ships starting
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with Celebrity edge well one of the most
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noticeable things is the hull it's a
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very different shape and look and feel
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and I think it's one of the good things
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that they're done it's a beautiful
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looking structure and a beautiful
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looking ship the second thing that they
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introduced which is also really obvious
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is what's known as the magic carpet this
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is the structure which is midships and
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attached on the side of the ship's the
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magic carpet concept was originally
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aimed at helping to improve tendering
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people on and off the ship obviously
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with big ships the big challenge is
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getting people on and off when you can't
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actually dock so the idea of the
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Magikarp was to create a much bigger
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space they've also introduced much
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bigger tenders although they call them
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launchers which can take many more
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people in a much more luxurious way so
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actually the big advantage of the magic
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carpet is the ability when you're in
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ports where you have to tender that you
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can get on and off much easier much
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quicker and much faster and that's a
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really big plus I would said it's one of
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the big best things about the celebrity
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age class the magic carpet of course has
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become something a little bit more
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innovative so it moves up and down the
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ship and what they do is they
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attach it to various restaurants so for
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example roar on five it expands that it
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can also go much higher up and it
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becomes its own bar and restaurant now
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depending on what you like and don't
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like the design inside the ship is very
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different so they've partnered with a
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designer called kelly Hoppen who's a
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very well-known british designer to
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really create some of the spaces the
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look and feel of the public areas is
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very contemporary it's very modern it's
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very different to how celebrity was it's
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also I think quite different to the
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other cruise lines so the look and feel
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is quite modern is quite contemporary so
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may depending on your design aesthetic
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and what you like in a cruise ship this
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may be either a good thing or a bad
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thing one of the really big innovations
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is the move away from open balconies to
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infinity balconies where instead of
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having a bow can you step out onto the
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balconies incorporated in your cabin so
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it makes a cabin much bigger and then
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you have a sliding window which slides
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down so you don't have a separate bath
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when you step out onto some people love
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them some people hate them but it
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certainly is very different so those are
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some of the key design and structural
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changes that have been made which are in
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my view good overall but I do appreciate
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that or for a lot of people they will be
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a step too far
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next I want to talk about some of the
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product changes onboard some of the
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things that are very different
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particular if you're familiar with the
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existing celebrity product one of the
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biggest changes which again has split
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people is they've got rid of the one
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main dining room and replaced it with
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four separate dining rooms which you can
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actually move between so the four dining
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rooms they now have are the Tuscan which
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is more Italian inspired Cyprus which is
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more Mediterranean seafood inspired
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cosmopolitan which is probably the
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closest I would say to the main or main
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dining room and then Normandy which is
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more French inspired so if you were one
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of those people that liked fixed dining
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with the same table and the same staff
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this is something that you may feel is
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less good on the other hand there are
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people who like the idea of having the
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ability to move around and have
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different dining experiences during the
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course of their cruise without having to
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a to go to specialty dining because each
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of those restaurants is included within
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the fair one of the big innovations
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although it has had more mixed
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experiences and feedback is Eden Eden is
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a dining and entertainment venue at the
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rear of the ship it's actually over
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three different floors in the morning
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it's designed to be quiet restful and
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peaceful and they might have things like
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yoga classes in the afternoon who gets a
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little bit more upbeat no sort of
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afternoon tea time gets a little more
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vibrant and then the evening it turns
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into something more decadent and there
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is a much more immersive dining and show
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experience now I know that when they
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first introduced it it was a little bit
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more edgy and they have toned it down a
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little bit because they found the
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clientele founded just a little bit too
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alternative it's certainly very
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different it's very innovative if it
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doesn't appeal to you it's fine you can
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just ignore it and just leave it out of
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your plans there's certainly plenty of
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other things that you can do on board
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the ship now one of the things that
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celebrity does focus on is specialized
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dining what's good for a lot of people
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is if they do like specialized dining
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and they're looking for something
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different if they'll find on board the
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edge class some new dining specialty
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options on the other side there are a
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couple of old favorites that have
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disappeared so let's talk about what
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they do have on board they're the fine
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cut steakhouse they have Legrand Bistro
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which is French one of the most fun and
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innovative things they've got is a thing
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called La Petite chef which is an
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interactive dining experience which has
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projections on the table as they serve
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the food tells little stories they also
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have venues outside like the rooftop
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garden grill which is a great venue
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particularly for cruising in great
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weather and you can go up there and have
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barbecue style food couple of things
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which they have kept on the dining
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experience which celebrity lovers will
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really like is there kept blue which is
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the specific restaurant for people
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cruising in a class they've kept blue
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and I which is the restaurant for people
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traveling in Suites they've kept Raw on
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five although it used to be on the other
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ships much more focused on sushi it's
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much more broader seafood restaurant and
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certainly for me I love the fact they've
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kept that there Stephanie one of my
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favorite restaurants and of course
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they've kept Ocean View Cafe which is
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the buffer restaurant I really like what
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they've done with the restaurant I think
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is even
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than on the other celebrity ships which
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I already like with the different
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stations and themed station so I really
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really liked the look and the feel of
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the Ocean View Cafe so those people who
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real diehard celebrity fans they might
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be a little disappointed that some of
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the specialty dining has gone so for
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example Murano has gone and also silk
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harvest which is one of my absolute
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favorite the Asian fusion original
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that's not onboard the edge class ship
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of course like the Murano the French is
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now folded into one of the main dining
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venues so the upside is you're gonna
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have a slightly French inspired
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restaurant within your fare another
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great innovation I think on board if
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you're a sweet Cruiser and generally
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look after sweet passengers really well
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he said now crazy a whole specific
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dedicated deck for sweet passengers
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called the retreat it's a beautiful
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venue so if you're travelling in Suites
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now on edge you have a very specific
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space which only you can go to a very
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specific deck which only you can go to
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so I think that's really great if you're
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sort of person who travels in Suites so
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what about some of the things that are
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familiar expected
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have they been improved or have they got
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worst well let me talk about a couple of
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them first of all the pool area the pool
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deck they have an indoor pool they have
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an outdoor pool I really love what
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they've done with the pool deck I think
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it's it feels much bigger it feels much
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more spacious because much more
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contemporary the pool is a really great
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size I think they've really elevated and
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move that forward on edge I think the
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other great change is around the theater
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the theaters now a very modern venue
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with lots of tech the shows themselves
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are pretty similar they saw the
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production style show they do use the
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technology much more and as you can see
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from some of these examples from the
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show called kaleidoscope it's very
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similar to a lot of cruise fairs very
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similar to what's on celebrity but I
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rethought the theater was fantastic very
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comfortable seating and a great plus and
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I think a real big improvement the spa
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in the fitness area is huge and the
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fitness area itself is fantastic so lots
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of choice in the spa this barbers
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hairdresser nail salon and a really
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great spa and fitness area so I think a
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real big improvement and move forward on
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the whole spa fitness area
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there's lots of bars there's a nightclub
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and a many of the familiar names that
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you would expect all around the ship the
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kids clubs I can't really comment on a
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lot of detail because I have already
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spent enough time with the kids clubs I
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don't know the kids clubs they certainly
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seem to be pretty big pretty modern they
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looked pretty impressive one things I
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did notice is the shops have gone very
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upmarket so there's Tiffany's as
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Bulgari's her lots of very upmarket
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shops and I guess they've done that for
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a reason partly because of the whole
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image of luxury they still did have the
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normal shops you'd expect with you know
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selling merchandise and booze and all
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that kind of stuff so the shop certainly
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have moved forward I don't know if
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that's a good thing or bad thing I guess
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it depends with you have lots of money
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you want to go shopping for Tiffany's on
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a cruise the edge costs of ships is very
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different it's really moving celebrity
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in a slightly different direction it's
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much more youthful as much on modern
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it's much more contemporary so there's
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some things here which I think are
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really appeal to me certainly as a
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cruiser that I think are really good
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there's a couple of things that I
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certainly think I'll watch out if you do
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or don't like certain things like you
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like the traditional dining experience
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you're not going to find that in the
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same way onboard edge the great
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advantage of course if celebrity edge as
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a concept and a ship doesn't appeal to
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you you still have millennium class and
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you still have solstice class having the
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