9 Comments Celebrity Solstice Enters Service Early W/ Three New Cruises

1. thomas

   June 4th, 2008 at 7:02 am

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   What happens to the customers who booked the 12/7/08 cruise to be on the inagural sailing. This kind of takes the wind out of their sails, since they will now be on the 3rd sailing versus the first.

2. Anne Campbell

   June 4th, 2008 at 10:14 am

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   Celebrity is offering them first shot at the new itineraries, which is only fair. Actually, inaugural voyages of the first in a series of newly designed ships are rarely problem free. Solstice is a huge jump in capacity for Celebrity, which usually means the shake down period is several months.

3. Denny Lauer

   June 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

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   We’ve signed up for a Nov 09 Solistice TA Rome-FLL. The ship (10 dining rooms and the special Spa Pool we love on the M-Class) sounds great and by then, it should be rung-out. On Mercury, we sailed a month or so after her inaugural (in 1996??) and loved it. One good thing about inaugurals – the line puts their sharpest and most experienced crew aboard for shakeouts and they stay aboard for a while to train up new crew.

   Denny

4. Anne Campbell

   June 6th, 2008 at 7:39 am

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   I agree…..Celebrity has many ships to pull good staff from. I can’t wait to see this ship, I love multiple restaurants.

5. Bob Dolan

   January 10th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

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   I have read 25 reviews from people who sailed on early Solstice cruises. Many, many complaints on the food quality. I have 2 children going with us, not hearing much on the kid’s program either. Have sailed 50 + times, 12 times on RCCL, wonder if I should have stayed with Independence of the Seas, our original choice.

6. Anne Campbell

   January 11th, 2009 at 8:27 am

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   Any time a cruise line launches a new class of ship there is a shake-down period and I think this is what is happening with Solstice. Celebrity doesn’t have an extensive children’s program, but your children will find plenty to do. What you will find better than RCI is larger more attractive cabins, a higher level of service. Regarding food, if you don’t like it speak to the maitre ‘d in the main dining room and ask if anything can be done. In many cases it can be.

   Personally I think Royal Caribbean’s biggest flaw is the low quality of its food. Can’t imagine Celebrity’s will be this bad.

7. Stacy

   June 28th, 2009 at 5:59 am

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   Bob,

   Those reviews that you read about the food are correct. I have been on about 20 cruises in my life (I’ve been cruising since I was 8 years old) and the Solstice had the worst food in the main dining room I have ever experienced. I was extremely disappointed as I remember years ago that I loved the food on Celebrity.

   The specialty restaurants only including Tuscan Grille and the Murano were fantastic but these cost the additional 25 – 30 dollars/ person. My husband and I made the reservations here after eating in the main dining room for a week as I did not enjoy the food at all.

   Please note that I am writing this review after returning from my cruise on June 26th, so this is very recent.

8. Dana Kuehn

   March 2nd, 2010 at 9:11 am

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   I am going on the Sol in May 2010. I have four boys ages 5-10. Are they going to hate this ship?

9. Anne Campbell

   March 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 am

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   I’ve been on the ship and she’s beautiful! You will have a wonderful vacations and the boys will love it too!

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