This oversight was a bit of a disappointment for a line that prides itself on its level of service. My husband ended up waiting for about 30 minutes in the long line at Guest Relations in order to get the error in seating corrected so that we would be able to dine together that evening in the main dining room. It was rather annoying to have to get it sorted out shortly before dinner as we had visions of having to eat at the buffet instead of the main dining room. We have no idea how this happened as we were on one joint reservation with Celebrity and had requested a table of 4 for our family. We finally regained access to our room with less than an hour to go before dinner only to discover another problem.Ĭards had been left in our staterooms to indicate where we would be sitting for dinner and my husband and I were seated at one table and our daughters at another (on a different level of the restaurant). ![]() An electrician had to be called to try and deal with the problem and it took quite some time for it to be resolved. Our stateroom attendant could not access our room either as the electronic door seemed to have malfunctioned. After spending the balance of the afternoon exploring the ship, we returned to our room to dress for dinner, with Emma soaking wet from playing in the fountains, to discover that we were locked out of our room. We contacted our stateroom attendant and waited to have this issue addressed before we went off to explore the ship. When we first gained access to our staterooms, we discovered that they had not yet been set up as connecting rooms. The chocolates on the pillows with turn-down service were very popular with everyone in the family and Emma particularly liked the towel animals that greeted her when we returned to our staterooms for the evening. We were provided with a bowl of fruit that was replenished on a daily basis. There is a mini-bar fridge which we used for storing bottles of water. The bathroom (with shower only) had adequate cupboard and drawer space for storing toiletries. Closets were spacious for two people and had plenty of hangers (it’s a pet peeve of mine when a sufficient number of hangers aren’t provided). The rooms on Celebrity are decorated in neutrals and quite elegant. We also had the balcony opened so that we had a double-size balcony. This was ideal for us because we needed the extra space but my younger daughter was still able to get to us if she woke in the night or early morning without exiting her room into the hallway or via the balcony. The result is that you now have two staterooms (and two bathrooms) behind one common door. Certain pairs of staterooms have an extra set of doors that can be folded out and locked as one door resulting in a small shared foyer outside the two rooms. ![]() This type of inter-connecting room seems to be unique to Celebrity and, in my view, is ingenious. On other cruise lines we have booked family rooms, mini-suites, and suites, however, on this cruise we opted to book two Concierge Class balcony rooms that were inter-connecting. An announcement informed boarding passengers that rooms would be ready after 1:30pm so we headed upstairs to the Oceanview Café for some lunch while waiting for access to our stateroom. We handed over our express passes and a credit card, signed a few papers, received our room keys, had a family photo taken and boarded the ship. Our rooms were in Concierge Class and there was virtually no line up. We arrived outside the terminal shortly after noon, passed off our luggage to the baggage handlers and headed inside the terminal building. ![]() The Equinox sails from the port of Civitavecchia (about an hour’s drive from Rome ) and on our itinerary the ports of call were Santorini, Greece Athens, Greece Istanbul, Turkey Kusadasi, Turkey Mykonos, Greece and Salerno, Italy.Įmbarkation was a very simple process. This was our fifth cruise as a family, however, it was the first time that we would be sailing with Celebrity and we were all very excited about our destination as well as the opportunity to experience a new cruise ship. The Equinox, which is part of Celebrity’s Solstice class, debuted in 2009 and has a capacity of 2850 passengers. It has only been a little more than a week since our family returned from an Eastern Mediterranean cruise on the Celebrity Equinox. A review of our family’s Mediterranean cruise on the Celebrity Equinox.
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