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8 Things Celebrity Cruises Do Better And Worse Than Other Cruise Lines
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Jan 28, 2025
Celebrity Cruises are a premium big ship cruise line and part of the Royal Caribbean group of cruising lines. I explore who they are, what they do better, the same and worse than other premium cruise lines like Princess, Holland America and Cunard and, importantly, who I think they are most suited for. Discover some key watch-outs and tips to help you decide if you should consider Celebrity Cruises for your next cruising vacation. I travelled on Celebrity Cruises at my own cost. This was not a sponsored trip, and I did not travel as a guest of the cruise line. Check out my cruising merchandise like T-shirts at my store at https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/store Support the channel by booking your next cruise and for the best deals on CRUISEDIRECT.COM: https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/CruiseDirectYT Consider becoming a Tips For Travellers Patron. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge #CelebrityCruises #CelebrityCruiseLine #CelebrityCruiseTips
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you're about to discover some important
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watch out if you're considering or about
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to go on a celebrity cruise hi I'm Gary
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Bembridge and this is another of my tips
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for travelers celebrity is part of the
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Royal Caribbean group Liberty is their
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premium cruise line it has big ships and
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it competes with cruise lines such as
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Princess Holland America Cunard and in
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the UK piano cruisers celebrity has a
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classic cruising fleet and also very
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small expedition fleet mostly focused on
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kalapa guests in this video I'm really
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focusing on the traditional classic
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cruise ships at the Somme recording this
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they had 10 ships actually within that
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classic fleet and already they have
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plans that that will grow to 13 ships by
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2022 they have three different classes
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of ship they have the Millennium class
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the Solstice class and the edge class
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therefore millennium class ships which
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came to service between 2000 and 2002
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millennium infinity summit and
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constellation they hold around 2100
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guests there are five Solstice Class
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ships and they came to service between
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about 2009 and 2012 they hold around
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2008 hyundai include the equinox which
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I'm on solstice Eclipse silhouette and
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reflection edge is the most recent class
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of ships and they came into service in
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2018 with the first being Celebrity edge
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followed by celebrity apex in 2019 and
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there are plans to build two more edge
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class ships the edge class bought in a
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new look and feel and design of some
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areas of the ship and the cabins and
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those are being rolled out across the
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existing millennium class and Solstice
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Class ships and that process will be
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completed by 2023 so very important if
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you are booking Celebrity Cruise and you
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want to go with the new look and feel
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make sure if your ship has already been
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retrofitted because they have quite a
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big fleet they cover pretty much all of
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the world so you can cruise to around
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300 different destinations every single
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year so they cruise of course the
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Caribbean they also don't cover the
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Mediterranean and far eastern Australia
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they go to Alaska
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they'll go to New England Canada South
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America the South Pacific and the Middle
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East
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so what do celebrity do better the same
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or worse than other cruise lines in the
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premium category I think it's very four
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things that they do better first of all
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the ships
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the ships themselves although
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structurally are very similar to the
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other premium cruise lines I think there
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is a look and a feel and design element
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that doesn't set them aside so whilst
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the other premium ships tend to be much
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more traditional much more classic
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celebrity on the other hand is very
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modern it's very contemporary and they
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are very much designed lid so even the
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existing ships the millennium and the
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Solstice class they have a style and
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look to them which i think is very
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attractive I do really do like the flow
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of the ships are designer ships inside
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and the feel of course with the
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introduction of the edge class they're
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pushing some of those boundaries of
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design even more so the hull has a
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different look and feel to it also
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they've done some changes to the design
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and layout of the cabins where they've
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got rid of the concept of a separate
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balcony they've made the cabins
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effectively 20 yard percent bigger and
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they have created what they call
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infinite fur anders which are spaces
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within the cabin and you have a sliding
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glass window which opens up to
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effectively create a balcony have the
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magic carpet down the side which
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operates both partly as extending some
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of the restaurants and is most important
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be used as a way of improving the whole
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tendering experience because creates a
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nice big platform to be able to tender
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with much bigger tenders to get people
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off the ship much quicker the second
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thing they do is they've created a much
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more vibrant - much more dynamic it's
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always a much more youthful take on the
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whole premium category so the other
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premium brands tend to be relatively
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sedate there are much more stuffy you
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there's only a lot more formal serving
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to use too much lively and much more
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energetic take on premium cruising so
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you'll find for example there's much
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more late night events and they are much
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more popular than much busier there have
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a much more relaxed dress code they're
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more driven by technology so for example
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the Wi-Fi is good and you can actually
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even stream on it they have partnerships
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with Apple and they run training classes
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they have an app which is pretty
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sophisticated getting more sophisticated
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all the time on edge it's changed
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another degree with the app actually
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controls all your functions within your
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cabin it's definitely a much more
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youthful much more vibrant a much more
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dynamic take on premium cruising in my
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view the third thing that they do better
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is the whole food and dining experience
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now I'm not saying that the food and
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dining on the other premium lies isn't
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great
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but I do think celebrity ups the ante of
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it I found the food in all the free
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complimentary restaurants so main dining
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room the Ocean View Cafe to be fantastic
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the other thing they do is they have a
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really interesting take on specialty
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dining it's a very integral part of the
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experience
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these also differ a little bit based on
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the class of ship you're on so let's
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take a look at the Solstice class where
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I was on Equinox they had four key
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especially the dining restaurants they
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had sushi on five which as its name
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suggests is sushi they have the Tuscan
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grill which is an Italian sort of
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steakhouse they have Murano which is the
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French bistro and silk harvest which is
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an Asian fusion restaurant as you move
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around the different classes of ships
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you also have different dining
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experiences
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so if example on the edge class instead
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of having one main large dining room
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they've made four of those cosmopolitan
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which is the more traditional one
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they have Normandy which is more French
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Cyprus which is more Mediterranean and
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Tuscan which is more Italian when it
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comes especially dining they have fine
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cut steakhouse lagron bistro which is
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French
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deputies chef and friends which is an
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interactive 3d table with food from
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around the world raw and five which is
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more than just a sushi and they use the
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magic carpet when it's on Deck five to
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extend ro on five and when they take it
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to the top they create dinner on the
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edge they have Eden which is a full
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interactive world which has dining and
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the rooftop garden grill as you move
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around there from class of ships you'll
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find different especially dining
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experiences the other premium cruise
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lines tend to have their set especially
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Danny's their set restaurants which they
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have across all of the ships I did like
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the fact that's a bit more variety and
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based on the ship you can have different
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dining experience but I thought the food
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was excellent the other thing that I
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think is outstanding is service and the
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crew now service of course across
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premium lines is pretty good however I
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thought that it was even better on
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Celebrity Sonia you get a sense of a
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very happy shove the very happy crew and
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certainly what a lot of people have said
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to me before I went on Celebrity is the
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crew and service is excellent that was
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my experience sort of celebrity do
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that's the same or perhaps a little bit
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worse than the other premiere lies and
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there's a couple of things here first of
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all although I did say that it has a
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slightly more modern
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and a slightly more vibrant tech on
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premium cruising the reality is on
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celebrity it's a very traditional
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cruising experience as per the other
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premium cruise lines so if you take a
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look at the daily program you'll find
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the way that the day runs is basically
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the same as the other premium cruise
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lines what celebrity do though is they
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have what they call celebrity life so
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all of the activities are structured
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under the celebrity life program which
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makes me think they're probably going to
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try and build in more innovation there's
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tastes which are culinary activities
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there's learn which are enrichment
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activities this play which are trivia
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and games and they survive which are
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wellness activities the other thing
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which I thought was very similar to the
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other premium cruise lines is
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entertainment particularly the
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production show and the guest artists
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the shows follow very much the same
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formula as the other premium cruise
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lines so they song-and-dance review type
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shows on the plus side the shows on
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celebrity use modern songs they're all
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within the last two or three years and
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so there's much more contemporary much
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more modern again linking back to that
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take on a more modern spin on the
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traditional premium cruising so the
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shows were good but they were pretty
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much the same in terms of style and
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approach to the other premium lines when
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it comes to excursions and destination
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briefings I think again it was very
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similar to the other Premium Cruise
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Lines in fact even some of the
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mass-market cruise lines the excursions
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were your standard excursion fare you
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had a wide range of excursion of the
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book that had a lot of options a lot of
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choices but there the excursions were
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very similar you'll find them on other
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cruise lines there wasn't a lot that was
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very different and unique there's no
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very specific partnerships or things
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that are unusually so in my view who is
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celebrity most suited for first of all
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you need to be looking for a premium
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cruising experience and a fairly
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traditional cruising experience if
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you're looking for a slightly more
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contemporary a more violent a more
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upbeat a more youthful take on that then
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celebrity is definitely for you if
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you're looking for a more of a resort
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experience where there's lots of
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gimmicks and features on the ship then
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celebrity is not for you so if you're
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looking to get dressed up in your tuxedo
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whilst you could on celebrity you're not
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going to find that across the ship so if
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you're looking for that much more formal
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cruising experience celebrity is not for
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you
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usually on celebrity the average age is
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slightly younger than on the other
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Premium cruise line so you're more like
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to find an average age of 50s and
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certainly you're gonna find at certain
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times of the year even coming down to
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the 40s
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of course if you go on longer cruises or
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you go out of the key sort of holiday
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periods the average age is probably
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gonna be more similar to some of the
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other lines a lot of families do come on
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celebrity because they like the more
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modern take of traditional cruising
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there is a limited amount of family
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cabins there is of course kids clubs
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very importantly it is English
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everything's done in English as you can
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find most of the guests on board are
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american canadians british travelers and
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of course wherever you cruise you're
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always going to find a lot of
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Australians if you're solo traveler one
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of the challenges of coming on celebrity
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on most of the fleet is there are solar
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cabin so you do pay quite a large
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premium for solar occupancy so for
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example I was cruising solo on this
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particular cruise and I paid a 50%
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premium for the cabin that I was in on
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edge they have introduced though some
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more solar cabins so the edge class is
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starting to cater much more for solar as
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a solar table ideally look more at the
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edge class where you like to find it
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slightly more cost-effective way of
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cruising solo one of things I've found
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is people who like celebrity really love
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celebrity and a very very law that whole
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experience and if you want a more upbeat
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a more vibrant
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way of cruising within a premium
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experience and a big ship experience let
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me take a look at celebrity if you
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