#Celebrity reflection reviews driver

On two of the first nights we were seated within the quadrant of Noel, sitting here I didn’t feel the fantastic service I was used to from Celebrity Cruises and felt more like we were a nuisance to him.

We always had delicious and well executed dishes every time. Luckily the evening menu did rotate and offered different items each day. In the evening the lower level was used for people with a fixed seating time and table.Īs we had any time dining we dined on the upper level of the opus restaurant on deck 4. Contrary to Princess Cruises the breakfast menu was the same every single day, with no rotating specials. The lower level was used for breakfast, when anyone could come up when they wanted. Here you also found the Luminae main restaurant for Suites guests and the lower level of the Opus main dining restaurant. On Deck 2 you only had the boarding areas for smaller ports and tender operations aswell as the medical area.ĭeck 3 provided you with Guest Services and Shore Excursions. The atrium was flanked by two times four glass elevators, a very impressive elevator bank. The central atrium stretched out over all 14 decks, with a real tree hovering in the centre. The Celebrity Reflection being a newer ship than the Millennium was also a bigger. After dropping off our stuff in the room, we enjoyed ourselves with the concierge class embarkation day lunch. Sam made the obvious remark that that didn’t seem very safe. We also hadn’t received our seapasses at check in but they were in an envelope next to the door of our cabin. As we boarded right next to our muster station, we first went there to be check-off the list and received a personal safety briefing of one of the entertainment staff members.Īs we had to sign up before hand at around which time we would board our ship, our stateroom was already ready for us at the time of boarding. Once in the terminal everything went much smoother and we were in the ship in no-time. I never had such an awful and disorganised port experience before on any of my cruises and it wasn’t the best start of the vacation. Moral of the story: just take a taxi from the Civitavecchia station when you arrive by train from Rome. Seeing how he drove there was no way we would have gotten there on foot.

#Celebrity reflection reviews driver

In the end a friendly taxi driver stopped for us and drove us to the ship for €10. We only ended up at more closed gates, asking at people that where in the port they had no clue either, just pointing us back in the general direction we came from. We headed in the direction of our ship which we could see docked in the distance. So then we just tried our luck and started walking towards the port after seeing a pedestrian entrance. The entire area was closed off and overgrown, so clearly out of service for quite some while without indication of where we had to be. However after getting there after a 15 minutes’ walk from the station there was nothing there. The website of the port appeared to be out of date, as they referred us to the Largo della Pace bus station from where all shuttle busses would leave. While Celebrity just said the ship would be leaving from the port of Civitavecchia without much further information, we had to check on the website of the port itself to find out more. The ship was still up to date and in a good condition but will undergo a dry-dock refurbishment after this season to bring it in line with newer ships. This time we would be travelling on the 2012 built Celebrity Reflection, which was the Fleet’s flagship until 2018 when the newer Edge class was launched. This would be my second cruise on Celebrity Cruises, after my previous cruise on them from Venice with Gillis on their older Celebrity Millennium. As I wanted to convince my boyfriend that travelling without his beloved car can also be fun I decided to drag him along on a Mediterraneancruise on Celebrity Reflection, starting from the Italian port of Civitavecchia near Rome. It was spring 2022 with the biggest COVID-19travel restrictions gradually being lifted it was time for the first big holiday for my boyfriend and I.