Celebrity Secrets and Tips

  

EMBARKATION DAY:

Lunch will be served in the Oceanview Café where the masses will gather for the extensive buffet.  Our secret: We like to avoid the crowd of people with the hand luggage in tow so we head to the Bistro on Five, one of the specialty restaurants onboard Silhouette, that comes with a surcharge.  NOTE: Celebrity is in the process of switching Bistro on Five into a sushi restaurant.  Hopefully this won't happen prior to our cruise; as I don't know if the sushi restaurant would be open on embarkation day!  I also don't know yet if Sushi on Five will be open for lunch on embarkation day; but I hope so!  Reviews of new Sushi on Five are good and you can definitely get more than just sushi. 

ROOM SERVICE

24 hour room service is available and it’s quite good with lots of choices.  It’s fun to order breakfast and sit on the balcony and enjoy the view.The room service menu for Aqua Class is quite extensive, compared to some of the other accommodation categories.

FOOD FINDS

In addition to the dinner menu of the day, you will find Celebrity Classics that are served every night: grilled steak, chicken or salmon, shrimp cocktail, baked potato or mashed potatoes, Caesar salad, and onion soup.

Yummy almond and chocolate croissants are served each morning at the Café Al Bacio!  This is also a great place for a hot chocolate or specialty coffee.

Oceanview Café:  At the breakfast toast & bread station, you will find large assortments of some very nice specialty whole grain, rye and seed breads, as well as some nice variety of bagels and other rolls. The servers will happily slice and toast any of these if you request them.   You will find most everything that your heart desires for breakfast… from corned beef hash to eggs benedict to Greek yogurt and cereals to fresh fruit.

Don’t forget about the waffle station, also located in the Oceanview Café!  Yummy waffles with orange butter, fruit, and syrup… perhaps even whipped cream!

The ice cream bar is good here too; so don’t miss it!  There’s a pizza station, a pasta station, a stir fry station, a Mexican station, a salad bar, and more… enough choices to satisfy any appetite!

From about 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, there are tea sandwiches, cookies, pastries, and such available in the Oceanview Café.

GENERAL

You can get over-the-counter seasickness meds as needed at customer service or the purser's desk. They dispense a couple of tablets at a time for free. (I recommend bringing your own Bonine, which you can get at a drugstore or Wal-Mart, etc.).

There is only one US - style outlet in most of the cabins, so you'll have to switch things around to charge your camera/phone/iPod/computer, etc. The belkin mini travel charger with surge protection gets good reviews. Extension cords are not allowed onboard.   Also, there's no clock in the cabins so a lighted alarm clock is a good idea if you want to know what time it is when you wake up in the night. A night light helps to find the way to the bathroom.

SPA

Embark early and head for the spa to make your appointments.

LAUNDRY:

There is no self-serve laundry on Celebrity ships but generally there will be at least one “laundry bag special” where for one price you can fill the provided bag with as much laundry as you can fit.  It’s not a bad deal and we used it twice on our last Celebrity cruise!

GALLEY TOUR & More:  Be sure to watch the daily schedule for special one-time only tours, such as a tour of the ship’s galley, backstage tour of the production shows, etc.