Beyond the garden of eatin' : Photo travelogue on the Edge Class

[scubacruiserx2]

  When we saw on Cruise Critic that there are about 20 different dining options on the Beyond and that some  friends from Australia that we met 9 years on Cruise Critic were going on October 13th , we booked it ! 

  Warning : If you are offended by food porn , the may be frequent displays of it so you have been warned !

[thebutlerdidit]

Scubacruiserx2, I’m just wondering if you’re the same scuba cruiser who my husband and I may have met onboard the Millennium in September of 2010, a northbound Alaskan cruise. It was our joint 50th birthday/25th anniversary celebration, and also our first cruise ever. If not - never mind and carry on! 

[scubacruiserx2]

2 hours ago, thebutlerdidit said:

Scubacruiserx2, I’m just wondering if you’re the same scuba cruiser who my husband and I may have met onboard the Millennium in September of 2010, a northbound Alaskan cruise. It was our joint 50th birthday/25th anniversary celebration, and also our first cruise ever. If not - never mind and carry on! 

 

  I wish it was us but we don't think so . But if it's any consolation , my wife is a Michigander and we met there in 1976 when I was on vacation in May from Florida . She's the best souvenir that I ever picked up on vacation . ☺️

[thebutlerdidit]

4 minutes ago, scubacruiserx2 said:

 

  I wish it was us but we don't think so . But if it's any consolation , my wife is a Michigander and we met there in 1976 when I was on vacation in May from Florida . She's the best souvenir that I ever picked up on vacation . ☺️

Aww, that’s so sweet! I hope you both have a wonderful cruise on the Beyond!

[scubacruiserx2]

50 minutes ago, thebutlerdidit said:

Aww, that’s so sweet! I hope you both have a wonderful cruise on the Beyond!

 

 Thanks ,  we're coming up on the BIG 50 but no plans yet . We're trying to cruise on our 4 favorite cruise lines this year so 2 down and 2 to go . The 1st was Antarctica/Patagonia on the NCL Star in January . It was our best Suite ever .

 

 

 

 The 2nd was on Princess to Iceland , Ireland , England and Scotland in July with friends . We are just finishing that review 

 

 

  The next one is this one on the Beyond . And our last scheduled one is Thanksgiving on the HAL Nieuw Amsterdam so that the whole family can make it including 2 of our grandsons who will be out of school for vacation . If you care to read the photo reviews just click on the photos .

 

Edited Wednesday at 09:47 PM by scubacruiserx2

[scubacruiserx2]

  Our first trips to continents different than North America were on the NCL Dream . In 2006 it was Europe and the Baltic . This was back in the Dark Ages . It was our first photo review and there were no cell phones or digital cameras . And we had dark hair back then .

 This photo was of  Peteroff in St. Petersburg and is a digital photo of a photograph from film in 2006 .

 

 

 

 

 Our next cruise on the NCL Dream was to South America and I now had a 4 megapixel underwater Sealife digital camera . The photo is Glacier Alley across the deck of the Dream in 2007 . The second photo was some friends that we met on CC and did private tours with . They were from Europe , France , Chile and the US .

 

 

 

[scubacruiserx2]

 Our 1st Celebrity cruise was a Transatlantic from Ft. Lauderdale to London through the port of Harwich on the Constellation . It was now 2009 and we had a DSLR camera .

 

[scubacruiserx2]

 We had an aft view cabin with a balcony on our T/A , but we wanted more . A couple of weeks before the cruise an FV family balcony opened up for a couple of hundred dollar more , so we jumped on it . 

 It was #7199 with a elongated aft balcony . It also had 2 doors to get to the cabin so it was quite .

 

 

 

 Behind the door on the right was a hall to the second door and closets .

 

 

 

 

 

 Looking back at the entrance . Note the large screen CRTV circa 2009 .

 

 

[scubacruiserx2]

 It had a second room with another TV leading to the balcony .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[scubacruiserx2]

 The Constellation was the last ship in the Millennium Class built in 2002 . A few photos of the ship inside .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 MDR

 

 

 

 

 

 Dinner at Ocean Liners

 

 

 

 

[scubacruiserx2]

 The Ports on this TA included Nassau , Bermuda , Azores ,  Lisbon Portugal , Vigo Spain , Gijon Spain , La Rochelle France and London , England . From London we had rented an apartment in Saint Petersburg , Russia .

 

 Nassau 

 

 

 

Pirates of the Caribbean

 

 

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 We saw the future of Celebrity at the pier . The Solstice also doing a TA to Europe .

 

 

[Ferry_Watcher]

I thought this thread was about the Edge Class ships,  Did I miss something?

[scubacruiserx2]

5 hours ago, Ferry_Watcher said:

I thought this thread was about the Edge Class ships,  Did I miss something?

 

  Welcome to the thread . Did you read the first post ( The topic sentence ) ?

 

 When we saw on Cruise Critic that there are about 20 different dining options on the Beyond and that some  friends from Australia that we met 9 years on Cruise Critic were going on October 13th , we booked it ! 

 

 Thus the Beyond cruise begins October 13th and we will share the photos and cruise after we get back in the same way that we are sharing our history with Celebrity before we go Beyond .

[scubacruiserx2]

 We had some beautiful days at sea before we made port in Bermuda for our first time , at The Royal Naval Dockyard , in the North of Bermuda .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by scubacruiserx2

[Ferry_Watcher]

2 hours ago, scubacruiserx2 said:

Thus the Beyond cruise begins October 13th and we will share the photos and cruise after we get back in the same way that we are sharing our history with Celebrity before we go Beyond .

 

Got it.  So the cruise in the title of this thread will begin in over 20 days from today, but up until then we will be treated to photos / stories from cruises that you took decades ago.  It kinda' has the 'Dad is going thru the slide carousels in the garage again' vibe.

 

Happy that you are a long time cruiser.  Happy that you will meet up with past cruise buddies on your upcoming cruise.  I guess for me the 3 plus weeks to actually wait for your Beyond review is too long.  Hoping you have a wonderful cruise!

[tbo]

5 hours ago, scubacruiserx2 said:

 

  Welcome to the thread . Did you read the first post ( The topic sentence ) ?

 

 When we saw on Cruise Critic that there are about 20 different dining options on the Beyond and that some  friends from Australia that we met 9 years on Cruise Critic were going on October 13th , we booked it ! 

 

 Thus the Beyond cruise begins October 13th and we will share the photos and cruise after we get back in the same way that we are sharing our history with Celebrity before we go Beyond .

Hello-we are also on this sailing. First time on Celebrity, really looking forward to it. It will be myself and hubby-34 years this year. Also bringing our youngest son and his fiance.

[scubacruiserx2]

29 minutes ago, tbo said:

Hello-we are also on this sailing. First time on Celebrity, really looking forward to it. It will be myself and hubby-34 years this year. Also bringing our youngest son and his fiance.

  Hello and welcome aboard ! It's been a couple of years since we've been on Celebrity . It was for our 39th anniversary in 2017 . We usually do the longer cruises but this is a new ship so for us so 6 days is fine . We do know the ports pretty well if you would like any advice .

 

 

 There is a Roll Call for this cruise but it hasn't been very active and so far there has been no planned Meet and Greet . We will give you the link , but feel free to post anything here if you would like .

 

 

 

[MicCanberra]

On 9/19/2024 at 9:11 AM, scubacruiserx2 said:

 It had a second room with another TV leading to the balcony .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We got a FV for our Connie cruise of the Adriatic back in 2016. A wonderful room.

[tbo]

1 hour ago, scubacruiserx2 said:

  Hello and welcome aboard ! It's been a couple of years since we've been on Celebrity . It was for our 39th anniversary in 2017 . We usually do the longer cruises but this is a new ship so for us so 6 days is fine . We do know the ports pretty well if you would like any advice .

 

 

 There is a Roll Call for this cruise but it hasn't been very active and so far there has been no planned Meet and Greet . We will give you the link , but feel free to post anything here if you would like .

 

 

 

Thank you. Bimini is the only one new to us, we are going to the Resorts World beach, hopefully that will be a relaxing day.

 

We will be going over to the mainland in Cozumel to see the Tulum ruins, not my idea, but the my son and his fiance are really wanting to go. If it were up to me, we would stay on the ship and enjoy the Retreat that day, lol. Seems like a long journey there and back and it really is an all day excursion. We are booked through the Celebrity and have never been, so guessing it will be nice to see once.