New Solstice Picture – Looking good!

[Xcruiser]

Link to the latest high resolution Solstice picture, painted and looking good!

 

http://redaktion.meyer-neptun.de/exfiles/8/celebrity%20sostice/s675hires.jpg

[LuLaLuvlee]

o0o0o Some was hitting their mark well! This is a great shot!

[dkjretired]

Great picture and it appears Eclipse is moving along also. It is right next to Solstice...

[CaroleLee]

Link to the latest high resolution Solstice picture, painted and looking good!

 

http://redaktion.meyer-neptun.de/exfiles/8/celebrity%20sostice/s675hires.jpg

 

 

Thanks- only 300+ days until our cruise-but who is counting.

Carole

[madelinerose]

Great, thanks! ;)

[luvtocook]

Great picture and it appears Eclipse is moving along also. It is right next to Solstice...

 

Wouldn't that be the Equinox that is next being built???:confused:

[dkjretired]

Wouldn't that be the Equinox that is next being built???:confused:

 

Right, my mistake...

[Longboysfan]

Why would they hang the life boats on the ship already?

 

That does not make sence to me.

[hcat]

Great shot & I do see the lifeboats Hope someone is able to get some interior pics as work inside progresses..

[snausman]

Great picture and thanks for the link.

 

Laura

[alprice]

she looks amazing - she may be my 1st Celebrity cruise!

[Hypo]

It appears to me, after looking at the lifeboat mountings, that there will not be very good sea views from the outdoor promenade deck. I guess the days of the traditional promenades, with shuffle board and lots of lounge chairs are becoming a thing of the past. From what we have seen on past cruises, the loungers and the outdoor promenade are under-utilized spaces, anyway.

 

I guess that this new design allows more interior space.

 

Hypo

[dkjretired]

Why would they hang the life boats on the ship already?

 

That does not make sence to me.

 

Probably because she's going in the water in a couple of weeks...

[Xcruiser]

Why would they hang the life boats on the ship already?

 

That does not make sence to me.

I guess in case she don’t float when they undock her on the 10th ! :eek: ;)

[marinearchit]

She looks great!

Also, I see Equinox's pool deck sitting in the slip next to her.:D Seems odd that it would be there already...

[FiggyWig]

Now I don't know much about these things, so please forgive my ignorance. But do the life boats 'jut out' when the ship is afloat, like they are displayed in this photo or are they some how cranked back in so that they are more flush with the side of the ship? Kind of as it depicts in the various deck plans that available ?

 

Just wondering, since we are booked in a Sunrise deck cabin, i.e. 2 decks above the life boats, if we were to look down would we see the 'briny' or just the top of a life boat ?

[FinelyCruising]

You know with that green glass and the bright white hull she looks more like a RCCL ship than an X ship.

 

But I'm good with it.:D

 

Thanks for the snap!

[star453]

Thanks for the link. I was surprised to see they have already flooded the dock. Won't be too long to float out, I would imagine.

[Xcruiser]

Now I don't know much about these things, so please forgive my ignorance. But do the life boats 'jut out' when the ship is afloat, like they are displayed in this photo or are they some how cranked back in so that they are more flush with the side of the ship? Kind of as it depicts in the various deck plans that available ?

 

Just wondering, since we are booked in a Sunrise deck cabin, i.e. 2 decks above the life boats, if we were to look down would we see the 'briny' or just the top of a life boat ?

I would say the lifeboats are in their normal position. Note the aft three lifeboats pictured really don’t have any room to be moved closer to the ship.

[darrencantwait]

It appears to me, after looking at the lifeboat mountings, that there will not be very good sea views from the outdoor promenade deck. I guess the days of the traditional promenades, with shuffle board and lots of lounge chairs are becoming a thing of the past. From what we have seen on past cruises, the loungers and the outdoor promenade are under-utilized spaces, anyway.

 

I guess that this new design allows more interior space.

 

Hypo

 

With the lifeboats not being "overhead" on the promenade deck, I think what the new design allows is an extra row of revenue generating balconies, not really more interior space. I will miss the long promenade with continuous view to the sea. But, I think you are probably right, they were not utilized as much as in the past (except on QM2).

[Susie51]

Thank you for the great pic. We are first on a waitlist for a local group cruise on Soltice with air, cruise with balcony cabin, and transfers included. The cruise is Med. Sept. 2009. I know there is plenty of room on the ship, but this TA arranges fantastic trips and it is a great price.

[rocket screen]

Hopefully, the paint the blue hull markings, too. The blue/white schemes of the other ships is very distinctive.

[dkjretired]

Hopefully, the paint the blue hull markings, too. The blue/white schemes of the other ships is very distinctive.

 

I don't know how accurate it is but wikepedia states the hull will be dark blue and the x logo will not be on the funnel.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Solstice

[Xcruiser]

I don't know how accurate it is but wikepedia states the hull will be dark blue and the x logo will not be on the funnel.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Solstice

Don, I don’t think that information Wikipedia is correct. From the way they are painting Solstice in the shipyard I think it will look like the renderings on Celebrity’s website. Solstice will have a blue stripe that runs the length of the promenade (that is really not on the promenade deck but on the outer Entertainment deck:rolleyes: ) and covers the specialty restaurants aft.

[Host Anne]

I know it's been a couple of weeks since the preview in Miami and my memory probably isn't perfect on this but I'm 99% certain that they told us Solstice will not have a blue hull - that she will be all white. I'll see if anyone else who was there recalls this info as well.