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We have cruised on Constellation for nearly 20 years. She is our favourite Celebrity ship, recently cruising for two months from December to January 2024. The modifications will be minor. The crew is fantastic: in our opinion better than any Royal experience (10+ from Enchantment to Allure). The itinerary is more important than the ship. The cabin choice on the "old" ships are superior to Celebrity's newer ships, depending on your Euro bank account...

There are two different piers. When we cruised on Holland America, they gave us the wrong address. The Old Town Pier parking is twice as expensive but very convenient. We cruised out of the new terminal and the parking lot is a 15 minute walk.

Do you know which pier?

This is where we parked on two cruises. Get the Flowbird App.

In reality, I think it is a shortage of ships for X. The ones they have positioned now are profitable.

You're a bear for punishment, or is that bare?

We cruised this itinerary frequently. We love the fort. Rent a car and enjoy the Cabot Trail or simply walk into town..

The Vancouver terminal can be quite the challenge. I've heard reports that pax from every cruise line get in line for immigration screening. There is not necessarily a line for HAL or Celebrity or Royal. We always show up early.

When we were on Constellation over the holidays, Celebrity often charged an exchange of 45% when booking a future cruise. It was much cheaper booking in US$ than CAD$. Certain CDN credit cards will offset the exchange rate.

On both Celebrity and HAL, dress up night means a long sleeved shirt with an optional tie. That's not me. I dress up with a jacket to compliment my wife.

We have cruised a lot: a bunch on Celebrity, a dozen or so with Princess and Royal, 20+ on HAL and one Norwegian, the Dream (aka the nightmare). In September 2022 we cruised on HAL Nieuw Statendam from Quebec to Boston and back and enjoyed the ship so much we booked 8 B2Bs over Christmas and New Year. We love this ship but the entertainment ie., theatre was mediocre on a good day. The "music walk" however was great from jazz to classical to the Rolling Stones. From reading the latest comments, the music is not as varied as it was a year ago. No one has better itineraries than HAL. The food is great, the service is wonderful but don't book because of the entertainment on board. The quality just varies too much.

The oldest Carnival ship, I thought was the Mardi Gras, purchased from Canadian Pacific and still uses the colours used by Canadian Pacific on their locomotives (a RR company)

We loved the old Westerdam, best theatre seats ever!

I'll be in the dark on my back porch during the Eclipse.

As an adult: March 1989.

Does this count? I'm the guy in the middle on the Georgic, 1951

Function, print screen, Paint, save..

It is amazing that our experiences with staff and crew vary so much. We find the service of the Indonesian and Filipino crew members to be outstanding on both Celebrity and HAL. We find the officers on HAL to be very cool and distant compared to Celebrity officers. We have been invited to bridge tours frequently on celebrity, never on HAL. We have had pictures with every Celebrity Captain, none with any HAL captain. We know most of the Celebrity cruise directors and met only one HAL CD in 14 weeks in the last two years.

On N Statendam in Sept 2023, the duo were fantastic. In Dec, the two never clicked and the guy hammered the piano and sang poorly. The person picking the talent does not seem very talented.

Once you are old enough, every repeat performance is a new one. No matter how good a performance is, eventually it is time for a change.

Thanks for a great review.