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We did flights to Alaska for this August and the got us American airlines both ways.

We done Alaska with Princess in 2016 with land tour first, this year we are going back with Celebrity August 7th 2020  with Heartland land tour first. Land tour first is nice, some relaxation  on cruise south.

While I am not a wine drinker, my wife is.She always enjoys a glass or two at dinner. She goes with sommelier suggestion and in usually satisfied.

yes for regular tequila, extra for Patron.

We did sunset on Silhouette , we loved it. Be prepared for long walk to the theater . Really quiet back there. Had some soot but not a real problem.

In 2016 did a Princess Cruise and pre cruise land tour and was great, This August we are going again but with Celebrity

with a pre cruise land tour. We did Celebrity do to having a lot of  onboard  credit, As far as dealings Princess was far easier to deal with and more knowledge, we keep getting transferred with requests for air info and land portion info. Star Princess was grat and land tour were very organized. If you take the cruise a Land tour is a must, so beautiful is Alaska!

Hi everyone, we have a  land and  cruise tour booked for August. We are having so much trouble navigating the web sight to find land tour excursions its driving us nuts. Worst was talking to agents, want to add a day before cruise  but after 3 transfers gave up and booked our selves. Finally when booked our flight through Celebrity, this agent said it was no problem she could of added the room????  First agent said they didn't do it call cruise and they said they didn't do it . Don't these agents have clue. After all this transferred back to cruise people and they said they have no info on land part of tours yet. ?? Last Alaska cruise with Princess, 1 call, one agent did it all . Seems like Celebrity it running amok.

Thank you Erika, Were the evening shows good, we just finished 2 Celebrity cruises in the last 3 months

and entertainment was horrible!

Hi all, Wife and I are looking at Alaska for 2020 And was wondering how well Royal Does it.

We travel a lot on Celebrity, But honestly after 2 cruise this spring looking at other options.

Celebrity is going down hill on the Entertainment. We Did princess Alaska land Cruise in 2016

and was great, but always wanting to try other lines to see new things,

So How was you Land Cruise with Royal Caribbean?

Thanks K and J

I agree with opinion on lounge acts, they were ok,  I wouldn't call them great, but good to sit and have a drink and listen,. But not anything where we said we need to go back and watch them again. But the Main Theater shows was what

was lacking The Pianist was very good,  Brokens String wasn't very good  for our tastes, or even the Broadway Show. The last evening was probably the best of the shows we saw.But the Tenor singer and the other male singer was n't much in

our opinion. WE sat in the back and a lot of people were leaving with the 2 male singers. But after show , only real option was Silent Disco which wasn't our cup of tea or the Improv which we try once and that was surely enough. ..

They need to step up with some late night shows in the small theater , comics, or something of that nature. Especially on sea days.

Just had  concierge class c2 on Solstice, great balcony on the slant, very large, you to get priority tender if you have any. Champagne is just cheap Brut and the canapes to your room in the after noon aren't much. At dinner we at our table tried to figure out what they were, Wasn't very appetizing . Also get shower gel and shampoos and conditioners in little bottles.

I wouldn't have paid for it but Celebrity offer it to me . Was cheaper than regular 2A or B balcony, I just they were't  selling.

its a shame they don't have the  Alchemy on your ship. We had it on the Liberty and was great, I think it right up there with the Martini Bar on X. Agree the dinning room leaves something to be desired but the entertainment is above X. Alot of late night shows and entertainers. We did a 12 day Destination Cruise on it and was great cruise, not a lot of over the top partying and very few kids.

here's a quick information about our very recent Solstice cruise Hawaii to Vancouver .

Sorry not a writer just some information .

Wife and I are not new cruisers, with 20 cruises behind us. 

1st our room, we had a great room, 12249 on 10 deck, C2 class with angled balcony Wonderful size balcony with plenty of

room for 2 chairs and ottomans and table, great to have breakfast on while it Hawaii.

Bed was near balcony and overall room and ship were in pretty good shape.

 Room attendant was just ok, never had a day that he remembered everything, No ice, couple of times forgot bath mat,  ,

no wash clothes a couple of times,  and no shower gel or shampoo a time or two. Really no big deal, he seemed over worked.

But room was in a great location, 50 feet from elevators and no noise except from balcony above who seemed to like moving

chairs and tables around in the early morning lifting and dropping them down the the deck.

  Dinner in Main dining room, was  in our opinion was very good, Service was good but seemed our waiter was really rushed ,

He seemed frantic at times. We missed the normal engagement we usually have with the waiters.. They have always been fun to talk to.

Shows, boy they have really gone down hill. It was a big conversation about lack of good shows. It seems like its been a

big cost reduction  with the entertainers. No comedians, illusionists, . We always enjoyed a late adult comedy show They had a improv

 pair that performed a couple of nights, After general chit chat with table mates and other cruisers they seemed to say it was their cup of tea to say

 and would go see them again.  . They did have a great naturist, Brent Nixon, if he's ever  on a cruise your on,

don't miss him.

We were on the Silhouette in February and the shows there were pretty weak also. Looks like Celebrity is moving toward using their house musicians

 to provide around the ship  entertainment.

Casino, boy never saw such a dead casino. Never more that half the tables never had players. I was playing  roulette one night and was only player ,

it seemed like I was the entertainment, had about  10 or  people watching,  even had people sitting next to me not playing, was surprised they

didn't ask them to move, but said nothing. I stopped shortly after. Craps table mostly empty, at most 2 people, don't think I ever saw that before.

We had to tender in 3 ports, and in Maui was very rough, I felt sorry for the mobility impaired guests, getting up and down those steps on on to

the life boats they used as tenders. It would of been nice if they gave those folks a little more room, but the seem to want to pack the boat!

We talked to captains club and about entertainment, on both Silhouette and Solstice. And there answer was it about the demographics of the cruisers!!!

We have a another cruise booked with Celebrity and thinking were going to cancel and try another line for a change.

Over all the Celebrity seemed be be trying to be the new Holland America with attracting a more mature crowd.

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wi. 

Not a problem at all, Did it about 6-7 times, from Baltimore and Philadelphia airports, Book a am 

flight and will be there by 3 easily .

SHIP:  Solstice

CABIN #: 12-249

DECK #:10

CLASS:C2

AREA: rear midship

BED NEAR: Balcony

QUIET?:  Yes extremely quite(except for rude people above dragging and banging deck chairs early in the morning)

BALCONY VIEW: Excellent 

BALCONY SIZE: Large on and angle  Reclining chairs and ottomans and table,

WIND A PROBLEM?:  No wind problem

SOOT A PROBLEM?:  No

PROBLEMS/COMMENTS:   Close to elevators. 

Thanks for taking time to do report, enjoy your cruise.

Kand J

Just had this happen on our 2-22 cruise. Booked on ship and told agent we didn't want to use same agency,

When we returned home, contacted the agency we wanted to use and gave them the booking number. Company called back and said they could't take it as it was already assigned to another company. After 1 hour of phone calls and told them we would cancel cruise, they transferred us to resolution supervisor and she said what we had to do to get it bad. I said sorry, i don't have to do nothing , you have to do or I cancel that and another cruise we have booked. It took  5 days but they got it back and assigned to the new agency. They said agent on board make the mistake.

The above poster was correct about Sushi on 5, it was almost empty every time we pasted it on  our Feb. 22nd cruise. We use to enjoy Bistro on five.

DocJohnB   Thanks for the review. I think the cruise line lost sight of the anytime, select dining or your time or what ever you want to call it. When it first started you couldn't reserve a time you just showed up when you wanted and wait a few minutes and got a table. Next they started letting people reserve time for the whole cruise so they all started picking times around the main seating for the entire cruise., Kind of defeats the purpose we think. A couple of cruises ago we would walk down and be giving a pager on Princess and go sit at the closest bar, Usually in 20 minutes would be called. When we get in, there were dozens of tables open. Asked Maitre D about it and he said they are reserved but no shows and he has to wait 20 minutes before filling them.  .    

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Yes there is a smoking area area next to sunset bar, usually crowded and not much seating on our last cruise.

Cementhands, I don,t recall Zumba, but not saying there wasn't. Cruise director was Rich and was pretty good, his suporting staff not so much. Afternoon trivia one day had a Spanish speaking mc and was very hard to understand, a lot of people looking around and asking what he said, lots of people left after the first couple questions.

Sasset, shows were 7:00 and 9:00

Lot of dancing in main foyer with like band playing , mostly before dinner and after.

Diesel , weather in Bonaire and Curacao was in high 80's and very windy in both countries.

First off let me start by saying, I am not a whitty great writer. I will give you our insights on our recent cruise.

We booked  cruise fairly late ,in late December, luckily they still had aft balcony available .

So we booked aft stateroom on deck 8. Wife always want to try one. Let me start by saying we our a mid -sixties couple

and this is our 18th cruise. ths was one of the quietest rooms we ever had, But warning to people with walking issues

, its a very long walk to theater. Only had a soot problem one day, was next to last sea day and it was like it was snowing ,

soot flakes as big as 1/4 inch. we had to leave balcony. it was around 4 in the afternoon.But that was it .

    We arrived Friday at Fll got on an  early flight as this was all that was available at a reasonable cost.We arrived

at cruise terminal at 10;45 and was aboard in 15 minutes. Nice quick service. Our room was available at 1 PM.

and met our attendant Reynaldo, Great attendant. Was like a ghost,but room always clean and ice bucket loaded.

  Did the evacuation  demo, that was the dumbest demo with cartoons I ever saw, was truly ridiculous .

We had late seating as it was the only one left when we booked. Had a nice table for 4 , but the other couple never

showed. Waiter and assistant waiters were great ( Angel and Ipong) This cruise had the best beef/steaks that

we ever had on a cruise. Room service for a few balcony breakfasts was alway perfect and exactly on time. Was nice

sitting and eating on the aft balcony . It has a little more depth than the side ones. Nice and relaxing watching

the wake. Ocean view cafe nice most of the time, but keep running out of plates on sea days.

   On to  Entertainment, comedian first night Miguel ? was pretty good. 2nd night was their show with different acts

and trapeze acts, was ok. 3rd night was a rock band Billy Mcguigan, let me say, we seen a lot of shows over the years

and this was one of the best!!! Next night was another musician , he was very good also. and the next was a female singer

Lorraine Crosby  , her show was good also.Fridays show was there own show which I thought was pretty lame,

wife said it was just ok, wardrobe looks like it was picked up at Walmarts. Last night comedian was pretty good,

can't recall his name though.. Theater was never full to capacity. Other entertain mostly singers ands house acts. 

  Late night entertainment was mostly Karaoke and lounge acts. One late night show the Marriage game and that  was it .

No late night adult comedy at all, Ship was pretty dead after 10:30.  The at sea speakers were ok, not very well

attended, Think it was due the the subjects. Have seen much better. Casino was fairly busy was nice with no smoking.

Actually got a couple of free drinks while playing. 

  On to the pool, as always chair hogs galore, I usually walk first thing in the morning and the people where out in

force reserving chairs around pool area by 7:30., One day I watched a woman show up with eight flip flops and eight books

and put them on chairs in front of pool, in front of a officer talking to deck attendants and they did nothing. She left

and when back down the elevator.

  Ports were nice, we have been to all many times and did our own thing, mostly beaches but did do a sunset catamaran

in Aruba.

 We thought the ship was in great shape, mostly older crowd and very few children..,

Disembarking was fast, we did walk off , though customs and in a Shuttle van, cost $11 PP  at 8 and at airport at 8:15. Checked in and

though TSA by 8:30

All in all very nice trip

Any questions, will try to answer.

Kand J

Just back from Silhouette cruise, and like posted above , everything from

Tuxedos and gowns to Walmart store attire. There's been a great decline

  in dress code. 

Wife and I enjoy Princess alot. I think they would work for you.

J and K