Celebrity Summit Southern Caribbean: November 2017

[CTslotters]

The drinks and service reviews.
Celebrity has 3 levels of alcohol drink packages. We had the middle package included in our booking, but upgraded to the top package for $10/day. We really wanted to try some of the better wines, and have unlimited premium bottled (still and sparkling) water which is only included in the top package. I drink A LOT of water every day so this alone was worth much more than $10/day.
As I stated before, the Cafe on the ship was a favorite spot of ours. I loved the individual pots of premium tea I was able to get, and Adam loved the espressos and coffee beverages.
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This is an assortment of some of our cocktails. We went to the same bar, Wine Cellars, before dinner every night and the bartender there was THE BEST!!! He was so nice, and felt bad that the tequila collection on the ship was not to Adam's standards (lol) so he guided him towards various whiskeys based on the tequilas he gravitates towards. He would have never explored all the whiskeys and different drinks if we weren't on the premium package and had to pay for it.
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The Perrier was from a Polish distributor! This amused us, lol!
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More on overall thoughts, shows, and casino coming soon...

[zeus]

Wow, it sounds like you guys were at a very nice resort instead of on a cruise ship. All of this is very appealing. The upgrades would be so worth it. Food and cock porn is truly amazing!

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[BorgataBabe]

I hear Celebrity has the best food over NCL and RC, looking forward to hearing about the food!


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[DK528]

Whoops. Wrong thread

[Nhcris]

lol @zeus! Adam would be flattered if he knew I posted that picture.
@Slotspert, are you allowed to smoke inside on other cruise lines?!!?! We've only sailed Disney (no casino) and Celebrity so we don't have anything to compare it to but I would most likely have avoided the casino if people were smoking in there.

Most of the other lines have smoking and non-smoking sections. Additionally, Princess goes non-smoking on Formal Nights. Celebrity is the only one I have sailed that is totally non-smoking.

[Nhcris]

Your food pictures are amazing! And it sounds like you found the perfect bar for before dinner every night. I would have loved exploring all those whiskeys

What a bummer about your arm. If it was bad enough to see you out of the water, it must have been pretty damn awful. I hope it is all healed up now with no lasting effects. Glad you were able to have a great time in spite of it!

[Slotspert]

lol @zeus! Adam would be flattered if he knew I posted that picture.
@Slotspert, are you allowed to smoke inside on other cruise lines?!!?! We've only sailed Disney (no casino) and Celebrity so we don't have anything to compare it to but I would most likely have avoided the casino if people were smoking in there.

Unfortunately, for the non-smoker, a majority of cruise lines still allow smoking inside their casino. Even worse, some ships actually use the casino as the "smoking" inside space on their ships. You really need to do research before booking to find which ship is worse. NCL is awful, Celebrity is best, Holland America allows on some ships and not others, Carnival is also bad. RCCL tries to designate a 50/50 split and their larger ships do a better job at this. Princess has a few 100% non smoking nights (usually during formal nights) to protect all the nice clothing from smelling. Cunard is non smoking in their casinos. But all this is in a state of flux.

[bluesfan]

Wow - amazing write up so far! Looks like you both had an awesome time, and those food pictures, YUM! It got me thinking about my upcoming cruise in June to Alaska!

[Hoofy7]

Antigua. We had no plans this day and just walked around the port to check it out, lots of shopping to do if that's your thing, and then we drank our way through the various bars on the ship. LOL. We had a lot of sun the prior day so we took it easy with getting too much. And the plus side of staying on the ship on a port day is you get to enjoy a fairly empty ship!
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The above is the view from the bar that the below picture was taken from. Also a great place to eat lunch outside.
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The coffee bar was one of our favorite places, will write more in detail about it in the overall ship summary.
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We were not as impressed with the martini bar as everyone else seems to be. But the bartenders did do shows and fancy stuff (think Tom Cruise in Cocktail), it was neat.
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Loved how green every island was, it made for pretty views.
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Us at a show after the day of bar hopping.
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I absolutely loved Antigua. It was my favorite of all the islands we visited on our 11 day cruise last year. If you go back, make sure to do a catamaran excursion that takes you snorkeling, swimming with sea turtles, and then to a beach. It had the nicest beach of any Caribbean island I’ve been too and crystal clear blue water. I loved it. Loving this report and it’s getting me pumped for my cruise! Miss you guys and hope to see you this spring in LV! I’m down for a group cruise too as DVan mentioned anytime!

[CTslotters]

I'm such a bum and never finished up this TR, lol! (@hoofy7, thanks for tagging me, it reminded me I'm not done, and miss you too, hope our paths cross soon, enjoy your cruise!)
Sorry about the delay! And I'm happy to answer any specific questions if anyone has any!
So I think I have shows, casino, and overall thoughts remaining.
We typically don't love the shows on cruise ships but do attend and just leave if it isn't our cup of tea. Well, these shows actually had some of the best performers we've seen on a ship. It was the current cast's last week after a 6 month stint (we saw them all at the airport with us as we were flying home, lol). They had two aerialist/cirque type performers that were awesome (we wondered why they were doing this on a cruise ship!) The original stage productions actually had a fun story and the music and singing was much better than we heard on our Celebrity cruise last year. Overall, it was a nice hour spent most evenings (we left after 10 minutes of the comedy show one night because he was AWFUL!!!!)
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Casino thoughts, while it was small, the staff was super nice, I loved all the old WMS G+deluxe games they had, and Adam and I both left the trip up! We only went there about 4 nights and one night, I made it to the final 4 to win $1k slot play, went through 10 rounds of correct picking with 3 other people and they let "age choose first over youth" and she chose correctly. (Dammit! Adam was taping it too since I kept getting to the next round and couldn't believe I was in the finals, my disappointment ran deep! Oh well). My best hit was around $200 on Zeus III (@zeus, you would have been proud!), but we had lots of smaller wins that kept us playing. We barely ever bet over $1 because we weren't there to gamble but having won our first night, we just played off winnings during the trip!

Overall, we wouldn't hesitate to take this smaller ship again. We really had a great time and writing this up as it's snowing outside makes me realize how much I miss being in sunny, warm places!