“Great Trip. Only Minor Complaints”
The ship, the crew, and the captain were fantastic. The itinerary was awesome. We booked our shore excursions through Celebrity and were less than happy with some of those. I understand that the local weather is highly variable, but one of our excursions was canceled because of the weather. That, in itself, was disappointing, but understandable. What bothered us was that they waited until the last minute when there was no time left to book something else. The day ended up being wasted. Another excursion was delayed (supposedly by windy conditions) and our three-hour tour was an hour late leaving, and then, we were only given two hours. Again, if they had kept us timely informed, we could have re-booked another excursion. Instead, we ended up being stuck with something far less than we expected. In Celebrity's defense, we were refunded our money for the canceled excursion, and I'm told we would get a partial refund on the other one. The other minor complaint we had was with our drink package. We got the big drink package as one of our perks. We don't drink alcohol, but it was that or the gambling perk. We were only allowed to get one drink per card each visit to the bar. We would have liked to have a few in the stateroom so we didn't have to find a bar every time we wanted a soda. I don't know the reason for that policy, but it was a minor annoyance.
I don't want to come off sounding like nothing was good, far from it. We had a great adventure. Those few items could have made it an excellent adventure.
