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Hi, this may seem a silly question, but we are considering booking a one week cruise and then stay in Sorrento on TUI's 'new' ship the Explorer 2. It made us smile to see that she used to be the Celebrity Mercury. Still has her X funnel !

 

We know that she will have changed in many ways but are wondering if anyone on here can give us any information re the size of the ship and what the suites were like - size, location etc - and if the aft cabins were good.

 

Sorry if this seems silly to ask, but am sure that there are some of you out there who have lots of knowledge about the old Celebrity ships.

 

It is our 25th anniversary and we have been going around in circles for months now checking out cruises and land holidays. This cruise would give us a weeks cruise and then a stay in Sorrento where we had our honeymoon. To be honest we had looked at the Edge and then seen this cruise and stay.

 

Many thanks

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I will try and describe some really great cabins on that ship assuming everything is pretty much the same. On what used to be the top passenger deck which Celebrity called the sky deck were four cabins on each end and each side. All the cabins in between were suites but these cabins were the same size as the suites and had huge balconies. They were so nice the new owners may have made them suites if that whole deck is still suites. Celebrity had these cabins as veranda cabins which were much cheaper. They were so desirable when Celebrity created Concierge Class, these were designated as Concierge. Same thing happened on Galaxy

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It's about the same size as the Millennium and Constellation. It's been gone so long that the only one who can give you real information on it is someone who's been on it recently. The new owner could have done just about anything to it. We were on it several times in the mid 2000s , and we still have fond memories. In fact we enjoyed it more than any of the Solstice ships, back when cruising was something special.

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It's about the same size as the Millennium and Constellation. It's been gone so long that the only one who can give you real information on it is someone who's been on it recently. The new owner could have done just about anything to it. We were on it several times in the mid 2000s , and we still have fond memories. In fact we enjoyed it more than any of the Solstice ships, back when cruising was something special.

The Mercury was part of the Century Class ships (~77,302) which are smaller than the Millennium Class ships (~90,963 GT).

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We were only on the Mercury three times, but she was our first Celebrity ship. So we too have special memories.

 

It seems to me that someone posted video of the re-modeled Mercury interior after she was moved over to TUI. Does anyone else remember that post? It would have been in 2011 or 2012.

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My first sailing on X was Alaska on Mercury in a Sky Suite. Now these really were sky suites! Deck 12, with humongous verandas! I have also sailed twice on Century in SS. All as a solo. Sky suites on M-class & S-class ships (I’ve subsequently been in several) simply do NOT compare.

 

So, May 2004 - picture it: onboard for Mother’s Day. Daughter arranged casino credit (along with a bouquet of roses) as a gift. The casino was stunningly gorgeous. And the casino bar.... beautiful. I’m sitting at a dollar Wheel of Fortune.... got the spin....and hit the thousand-dollar prize.:') I recall sending my daughter a picture of the hundreds all spread out on my bed.

 

What a Mother’s Day. What a magnificent vessel. What a first-time sailing. I LOVED C-Class. Just the right size. Mercury is (and in my humble opinion always shall be) ) a real first-class ship.

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Mercury has always been our fav ship but no idea how new owners may have changed it.

 

We always took a balc cabin with a short 1 flight walk up to the pool and buffet...that cabin the became Concierge..and wtarted to feel worn and dated, Ship had a real T pool within the spa...but who knows now?

 

Had always hoped they would keep it and make it a boutique spa ship...

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Mercury was the first cruise I took 9 days from Vancouver to San Diego and it hooked me. What I remembered most is the fantastic crew and beautiful fan tail on the back of the ship where everyone seemed to relax at night watching the wake. Loved it.

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My first sailing on X was Alaska on Mercury in a Sky Suite. Now these really were sky suites! Deck 12, with humongous verandas! I have also sailed twice on Century in SS. All as a solo. Sky suites on M-class & S-class ships (I’ve subsequently been in several) simply do NOT compare.

 

So, May 2004 - picture it: onboard for Mother’s Day. Daughter arranged casino credit (along with a bouquet of roses) as a gift. The casino was stunningly gorgeous. And the casino bar.... beautiful. I’m sitting at a dollar Wheel of Fortune.... got the spin....and hit the thousand-dollar prize.:') I recall sending my daughter a picture of the hundreds all spread out on my bed.

 

What a Mother’s Day. What a magnificent vessel. What a first-time sailing. I LOVED C-Class. Just the right size. Mercury is (and in my humble opinion always shall be) ) a real first-class ship.

 

That's the deck I was writing about in the earlier post, all the rooms were sky suites except the two at each end on each side of the deck. They were classified as Category 2 cabins and had huge verandas. We did one on the Galaxy and one on the Mercury. I think the room numbers were 01,01, 41 and 42 with the deck number added.

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Have just been reading through all of these posts.

 

Just knew that there would be folks on here with fond memories! Will check out the deck plans tomorrow. :D

 

Thank you all SO much - keep the ideas coming :-)

 

I am guessing that we will end up this cruise with TUI or the Edge / Connie

 

Decisions, decisions, decisions

 

Thanks again

 

:)

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Sailed on Mercury at least a couple times. One fond memory was of a cruise down the west coast of Mexico - yes, Celebrity used to do that!

 

No telling how the inside of the ship may have been changed - it could have completely been remodeled so any advice we could give would be useless. Loved the ship, but it is definitely smaller than M class ships. I am prone to motion sickness so I have to admit I prefer the larger ships for that reason, but really enjoyed our Century class sailings.

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We sailed on the Mercury for our first cruise from Vancouver inside passage to Alaska. Beautiful Art Deco ship and we still talk about it! Wonderful scenery of course and one wicked nasty storm on the way back. Good times.;)

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Our first cruise with Celebrity was on the Mercury for a Thanksgiving family cruise in 1997, I think right after she was launched. We were sold on Celebrity from there on.

 

We made 2 more than another family Thanksgiving cruise out of Baltimore in 2010 right before she left Celebrity service.

 

We saw her in Copenhagen in 2012 as the Mein Scihiff 2 in 2012.

 

Loved Her.

 

Den

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