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Celebrity Cruises. An Overview

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Celebrity Cruises: Modern Luxury at Sea Celebrity Cruises was founded in 1988 with a clear mission; to deliver a premium cruise experience that combined modern design, elevated cuisine, and attentive service. Created by the Chandris Group of Greece, the line…

Take a Tour of the Celebrity Solstice

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Last month I spent a week onboard the Celebrity Solstice. I used this opportunity to document the ship for this tour. The Celebrity Solstice was the first ship in the 5 ship strong Solstice-class. These were a brand new design…

First Look: Celebrity Flora

Celebrity Cruises just took delivery of their next vessel, Celebrity Flora, and she’s unlike any other. VIEW CELEBRITY FLORA DECK PLANS 2019 will be the year of the expedition vessel. Of the 25 vessels due out this year, almost half…

Celebrity Edge Deck Plans

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First Look: Take a Tour of the Celebrity Edge

We recently took a first look at Celebrity Cruises groundbreaking new 130,818gt ship, Celebrity Edge. Now lets take a tour of the vessel. Outdoor/Pool/Spa Lets start with the most eye-catching feature, the Magic Carpet. [column size=one_half position=first] [/column] [column size=one_half…

First Look: Introducing Celebrity Edge

View a Tour of the Celebrity Edge. VIEW CELEBRITY EDGE DECK PLANS Below Originally Published on: Nov 9, 2018 @ 10:22 Easily the most anticipated ship this year is Celebrity’s Edge. She’s a completely new design measuring 130,818gt. Her most…

Celebrity Edge Sneak Peak

Just to wet your tastebuds, here are some photos from Chantiers de l’Atlantique (formerly STX France). The Celebrity Edge will have her final sea trials shortly and then be delivered in November After a series of preview cruises throughout Europe,…

[UPDATED]Celebrity Updates Edge’s Livery

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UPDATE: I noticed the stern windows around Eden, the aft facing lounge, are asymetrical. This must drive anyone with OCD nuts. What do you think? A post shared by Cruise Celebrity (@cruisecelebrity) on Feb 3, 2018 at 9:26am PST Compared…

Celebrity To Build New Expedition Vessel

Not to be left out of what will soon be the latest boom in the industry, luxury expedition ships, Celebrity Cruises will build a brand new expedition vessel called Celebrity Flora. Celebrity is no stranger to this market. They currently…

UPDATED:Celebrity Announces Details On Edge

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UPDATE TUESDAY: Celebrity released the first render of the vessel in its entirety. She will feature the vertical axe-bow design as well as a blue hull. Also note the ships funnel. Celebrity has never shied away from bold funnel designs.…

Celebrity Names Its Two Edge-Class Ships

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Celebrity Cruises just celebrated the steel cutting of it’s newest class of ships, the Edge-class. They also announced that the ships will be named Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Beyond. Now currently under construction at STX France, the ships will be…

Celebrity to Base First Ship Year-round in Caribbean

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Celebrity Cruises has today announced year-round Caribbean sailings onboard the Celebrity Equinox starting in summer of 2017. She was originally supposed to sail in the Mediterranean, however due to the weakening market there, they pulled her out. She’ll be based…

[VIDEO] Celebrity Infinity Hits Pier Hard in Ketchikan

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Video has just surfaced of Celebrity’s Infinity alliding with the dock yesterday in Ketchikan. While maneuvering into her berth, the ship was struck broadside by a strong gust of wind. In the video you can see the weather wasn’t favorable.…

Celebrity Announces ‘Luminae’

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via Celebrity: Inspired by light, exceptional food, wine and luxury, Luminae is Celebrity Cruises’ new exclusive dining experience for suite passengers. Luminae will be introduced beginning in April. John Suley, Celebrity’s James Beard-featured executive chef, said he wants Luminae diners to…

Celebrity Orders Two New Ships

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Celebrity has just signed an MOU for two ships to be part of the new EDGE Class vessels. I’ll update our newbuild list.   via PR Newswire: Celebrity Cruises has taken a bold step in ship design with the signing of…

Celebrity Century To Leave Fleet for Chinese Owners

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After much speculation, the Celebrity Century will leave the fleet in 2015 and sail for China’s Ctrip. She will actually be sold to Exquisite Marine Ltd. which will act as a holding company for Ctrip.  The transfer of ownership will occur in April…

Newbuilding Rumors for NCL and Royal Caribbean

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I am hearing severla rumors that NCL is looking at building a ship around the 200,000gt mark. That puts it at just slightly smaller than the current largest Oasis and Allure of the Seas which come in at 225,000gt. The…

Celebrity To “Work Around” Venice Ban on Cruise Ships

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When Celebrity sends 5 ships to Europe for their Summer 2015 season, they will send the 91,000gt Celebrity Constellation. The ban on ships over 96,000 from the main lagoon will be effective Jan 1, 2015. This will allow her to transit the…

Bunker Barge Allides with Celebrity Infinity

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Its being reported that while undergoing her bunkering operation in the Falkland Islands, the barge allided with the Celebrity Century. There was one lifeboat davit that was damaged. They were eventually able to repair it and the ship sailed at…

Celebrity Century To Leave Fleet April 2015

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No announcement on where her new home will be but my money is on France’s CDF Cruises. via CruiseCurrents: After much speculation and rumors, the oldest ship in Celebrity’s fleet, the 19 year old Celebrity Century, will be leaving the…

More Celebrity Century Drama

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In an interesting twist to the “will she/won’t she” be sold, Celebrity has now come out and denied claims that they will be selling their oldest ship, the 1995-built Celebrity Century. It was report earlier last month that the deal…

Celebrity Constellation Delayed in Key West

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Cruise Critic is reporting that guests onboard the Celebrity Constellation have reported that they will be overnighting in Key West as the 90,940gt ship is having engine troubles. According to initial reports, this is related to the ships gas turbine engines.  Royal Caribbean…

[UPDATED] RUMOR: Celebrity Considering Transferring Century to CDF

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UPDATE TUESDAY: Cruise Currents is reporting that its official. The 1995-built Century will be leaving the Celebrity fleet in 2015 for the French subsidiary Croisières de France.  Though we’re still waiting on official commentary from the line. CIN has the following…