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I think I’m a bit confused about the Eden restaurant on Celebrity’s Edge. I know many people like it a lot. However, I am seeing little things here and there and wonder if it’s kind of a supper club with shows, or if there are only shows sometimes? I’ve heard the food is good however, the only menu for that restaurant that I’ve seen looks like it has some pretty “different” dishes. Don’t think we I would care to order most of it. Does the menu change nightly? (Maybe somehow I missed other night’s menus on the on the app.). Additionally, I thought they serve lunch, but apparently not. I’d appreciate any helpful information or explanation pertaining to this particular restaurant.

Can you recall how long of a walk it was from the ship to where are you board the catamaran? Do you have to walk out of the cruise ship port docks and to a docking location for the catamaran?

Maybe you could look on TripAdvisor dot com for St. Lucia. There will be topics such as hotels, restaurants, things to do, and forums, etc. Under things to do there will be various ideas. Maybe you can contact a couple of the tours companies you could contact. Also read posts on cruisecritic and you may find some tour vendors mentioned. If your ship gets in at the port at 1 PM, there may likely be taxis and locals, hocking, various trips, activities, etc. of course hopefully your ship staying a little bit later to give you time to visit the area you want to want to. Good luck!

Thanks for the info.!

njsweetie, thank you SO much for the info re the dock they use at Pigeon Island. Eased my mind a lot. Interestingly, I saw two excursions that sounded so similar. One was on the Celebrity app. The other one was listed with a different title kin an email I received about making plans for my cruise. I called about it, and the lady told me both were basically the same. It’s just that one is six hours & comes with lunch. The other one is 4 1/2 hours and does not include lunch. We booked the one that did not include lunch,. I asked her about the titles, and she said don’t worry, it’s the same excursion. Just without the lunch. Fivelinks, with regard to sea sickness, if I were you, I’d use thie version of Dramamine that says less drowsy Dramamine on the package. You can usually find it at Walmart, Target, Walgreens, etc, and some grocery stores. The regular Dramamine tends to make people sleepy. It certainly did me when I first used iBonine is basically the same medication as the less drowsy Dramamine, so either is OK. Absolutely do not wait until you are in a situation where you might start to feel motion sickness! That is very important because it’s usually too late by then. If you’re concerned, I would take one of these medications about a half hour before you even board the catamaran. Or anytime you are worried about motion sickness. But even five minutes before you get on is better than not at all.Good luck!

Loved your very informative review! We’ve been on Celebrity about three times before, but this will be our first time on this line in about eight years. Plus we’ve never been on an E class ship. You mentioned you like the new style dining with the four main dining rooms. Did you have reservations each night or did you do any time dining and end up standing in line? From what I’ve seen on other lines, there is often a wait and sometimes it’s a bit of a long one. Did you have reservations each night or do anytimme dining? If you had snytime dinong, did you run into long waits? I’m not very familiar with Eden although I know many people like it. I see pictures on the net of a theater in the round type situation. Is that how the main theater is on the edge? Or maybe that is how shows take place in Eden? I didn’t realize there were shows in Eden until reading your review. Do you happen to recall which nights and/or even the times of the main shows on Celebrity? Like production shows, etc.? (It’s disappointing to choose a specialty restaurant and time, then find out that you’re going to miss a really great show due to your dinner timing.) Thanks again for your review, and if there are any questions I’ve asked that you can shed some light on, I would really appreciate your reply.

Is it a large catamaran with seats as opposed to one where pax sit or lay on a flat trampoline or somewhere they can find a space on the deck surface?

Hoping some of you who have done this excursion have the time to read through this. We are looking at this excursion and desperately want to take a leisurely sail down to the pitons. We have been in St. Lucia before, but have not been there for probably about 15 first time on a dive boat to all of the places this mentions except Pigeon Island, and we did pass the Pitons. Our beach was Anse Chastenet where we did the diving and snorkeling. (The way back was so gorgeous! Rainbows everywhere!) Last time in St. Lucia we went on a huge catamaran with seats lined up across the deck. Had newbies with us who loved it. I don’t remember who the tour company was but I believe we booked through Princess. We want to do something this time very similar. The big issue for us is though is my husband can walk & can go up and down stairs, he must be careful. Very steep, uneven, rocky, terrain, or more than about 20 steps with no handrail or anything to grasp poses problems. As long as he doesn’t have to do the rough, steep trails like that he’s fine. Neither of us will be hiking up to the fort or even hiking any of the trails. He is also able to walk through the sand at a beach. Important main question, do people get off the cat at a dock at Anse Chastenet? I remember accessing the boat from a dock when we were there before. I do know sometimes people have to wade or swim from a boat to access a beach. Don’t want that. My husband wouldn’t be swimming or snorkeling at the stop on the way back to the ship. He doesn’t mind just staying on the boat for a while while people, swim or snorkel. He’s done it before. I’m sure he won’t be up moving around a lot while we are sailing. .My concern is also any stops at Pigeon Island. Does one has to swim to shore? Sounds like the boat is stopped there for pretty long. There is another excursion on Celebrity that heads down to the pitons. Would have to check on the same issues , but of course it’s been fully booked many weeks out from the cruise. Not certain what type of boat. Just don’t want to end up on something where we would have to sit or lay on the trampoline. My husband would need something with a real bench or seat. Some of you mention some other companies doing a similar tour. I believe they were Mystic man and Papa boat tours. Can anyone tell me what type of vessels they had on those tours? I’m telling you, we are desperate to do another trip by water down to the pitons just to see them! Sorry for the length of this but hope some of you can supply some answers. Thanks for any more information.

Thinking back, I think I may have seen them on the app. I definitely need to look again. Although I think whatever I saw had just one menu example for each restaurant. So I thought the menu stayed exactly the same in all of the 4 venues each night. I’m very glad to hear the Celebrity Signatures change each day. I’m certainly not blown over with the selections so far nor was I with what I saw before. Just not sure if what I saw was from someone’s post but I don’t think it was. Thanks to you both for your helpful replies. kwokpot, you really explained it well and the example is very, very helpful. I’m sure this will help others new to E class dining sort it out as well.

Nevermind about my question about the same menus each night. Someone replied to an earlier question that answered it.

Kwokpot. Thanks SO much and I’m very glad to hear it! All I was able to find was one menu example for each of those four dining rooms. Of course, they were each different. If they serve the same foods in each dining room, then perhaps the variation in the menus showing were examples of what is in each of those dining rooms on various days. thanks again!

Perhaps I’m looking in the wrong place, but the only thing I could find was one menu for each of the main, no fee dining rooms. Some people have posted menus for various restaurants ( one I’ve seen a lot has a bunch of menus on one page are sort of crowded together). So when I try to enlarge them, they are so blurry they can’t be read. Can someone tell me if it is the same menu each night in these dining rooms or do you the entrées etc. change each night?

Can anyone tell me if the dinner menus for the Continental, Tuscan, Normandie and Cypress restaurants on the Celebrity Edge vary each night? I realize the standard alternative options available on all of those restaurant menus remain the same. Helpful replies will be greatly appreciated.

I see what you are talking about with the closet not having space for long dresses. My husband is tall and I usually like to clip his slacks so that they hang straight to help relax the fold wrinkle out of them from having been packed. I sometimes have dresses or other items that need a good deal of space lengthwise. We will have a regular concierge suite with the unusual “ extended balcony”. From looking at the picture, I would say Royal Caribbean’s Oasis and Voyager ships have better storage space in general. However, I can’t say for certain until I am actually inside our Edge cabin, trying to put our things away.(Boy, I hate that part of embarkation day, lol!) Jelayne, have you had success being seated with others by asking? I really will be happy if that’s easy to do on Celebrity. It certainly didn’t work for us on Royal Caribbean. After a couple of nights, we switched back to traditional style dining. The only time we’ve done my time dining on Royal Caribbean again was when we were with some friends, and it made it easier for us to schedule various shows that conflicted with traditional seating times. Going to get my hopes up! Thanks so much to all of you for responding!

We’ll be sailing on Celebrity’s Edge in a few weeks. I’ve seen a number of posts Indicating reservations on our sailing are pretty much impossible to get except for 5 PM or 9 PM. So I guess we’ll have to do the “any time/wait in line” style of seating. Most cruise lines automatically put strangers at the same table for traditional dining, unless a private table is requested. However, with anytime dining it has varied by cruise line. (Royal Caribbean seems to discourage it while Princess seems to encourage it.) we much prefer traditional dining as we like being seated with others, and meeting new people. What are the chances we can get seated with others at the four main dining rooms on the Edge? Do the menu offerings in each of the four main dining rooms change each night, or are they the same each night? (I know the alternative menu options do remain the same each night.) Re: cabins: In concierge and other veranda cabins, on video tours it appears that there isn’t that much closet, drawer or even bathroom storage space compared to Royal Caribbean ships in the Oasis and Voyager classes. It also looks like the closet is positioned awkwardly, making access a bit difficult. Am I wrong or did I just get the wrong impression? Thanks a bunch for any helpful replies from those who have experience on the Edge.

Find out if it is actually Celebrity, or an actual insurance company, providing the policy and paying on it if the situation arises. I remember years ago I was told never to get insurance through the cruise line itself. If something happened and they went bankrupt there wouldn’t be anyone to pay the insurance. However, I think most major cruise lines use an actual insurance company now to provide that coverage. Celebrity will be able to tell you. Or if they have sent you a copy of the policy and its benefits, it should say the name of the actual insurance company on it. I’ve used insure my trip before as well. However, I’ve never had to put in a claim.

My husband has a fold up travel scooter. He can walk, but due to a medical issue a few years ago, a scooter is often better for him to use for better stability when walking long distances that might require lots of standing. We’ve taken it on many tenders. It folds in half and it is about the size of a medium, rolling suitcase. I don’t think you’ll have any problem. Then there are others that are also fold up but they are made and look completely different. Some of these don’t look too much larger than an umbrella stroller when they are folded. As long as the scooter is truly designated as a fold up travel scooter, I said go for it. You might hit some uneven surfaces along the sidewalks in town, or have to lift it off of a curb or something now and then to cross a road but you should be fine.

Oh, that will be OK if they do. Hopefully, I will look better than and have on make up, lol!

Thanks for the replies. I just decided to do it the old fashioned way. Just went to Celebrity.com and was able to use the photos I already took. Since everything else I had filled out on the app appeared when I went to the check-in portion of Celebrity’s website, I’m sure the app will pick it up.

Filling out our check-in forms using the Celebrity app. When it came time to add our pictures, it appears there is no way to add photos that I took yesterday for this purpose. When I have filled out Royal Caribbean check in info, I’ve had no problem adding them. I’ve taken one of my husband and one of my self and cannot find a way to get them onto Celebrity’s check in form on the app. Wouldn’t dare allow the app to use my camera and take one of me looking like I look now! Hoping someone knows of a way to do this. Want to get this stuff over with! Any help greatly appreciated.

Very glad to hear that, LGW59! So much easier than having to plan dinners and stagger everything around shows changing times and days and so on like on RCI’s Oasis class ships. Thank you very much for replying.

I understand that the shows on the Celebrity Edge are a bit different than than the regular production style shows you see on many ships. I am especially wondering how their show are scheduled and if you have to make reservations for them, as on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis clas, ships? Are the ones on the Edge kind of staggered on various nights, or are there early and late performances each night for which no reservations are needed, like on Royal’s Voyager and older classes of ships? Are most of the main shows performed in the “in the round” type venue? I would really appreciate any information on the shows. Thanks for any replies.

I did the health questionnaire on the app. Just gave up and went to the website to get the luggage tags. That is where I got them in past years.

Thanks so much for your helpful replies! All setnow. 👍

RCI sent us an email saying the health questionnaire is available for our cruise (which is tomorrow). We expected toget it today, but I am technically challenged I guess and can’t find how to a access it on the app. Additionally, I don’t see how to find our luggage tags on the app. Just keep seeing itinerary and daily planner stuff. An anyone advise me on how to find these? Thanks for any belp!