Marella Celebration Review

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Definitely Not a Platinum Cruise; More Like Iron

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Marella Celebration
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Hazel Marr
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Mar 2015

Our biggest complaint was with reference to the food onboard. This is the only ship amongst a number of cruises we have taken where we have not wanted to eat! We are not fussy eaters but we really DID NOT enjoy the food offered on this trip.

Let’s start with the buffet/Lido restaurant. The breakfasts and afternoon teas were very repetitive and with little variations. The food was often oily, with the eggs being either over or underdone and only luke warm. The bacon and sausages tasted cheap. The cereals were mainly of the cheap sugar laden variety while the fruit was consistently melon and pineapple.

Lunchtimes fared little better. The salad was only ever the following:- lettuce, cucumber, radish, grated carrot, sweetcorn, tomatoes, watery silverskin onions (no vinegar) and cheeses with no variations. The salad dressings on offer were poor, heavily oily and poor in variety. The mixed salads on the appetiser counter were laden with mayo or looked revolting. Hasn’t the chef heard of pulses, a variety of salad leaves etc? The main courses were equally bad in their look, smell and taste. So much so lunch often became hot dog and chips from the snack bar by the pool – something we never eat at home or on holiday. The sugar free sweets were also poor in variety, being mainly a creamy mousse or pastry with fruit, not helpful if one doesn’t like creamy mousses and can’t eat pastry! Additionally the sugar free was rarely labelled as such and one had frequently to ask if there were any sugar free.

Cabin Review

Cabin Outside C deck

Cabin was small, no frills, with a very low porthole window that was like a washing machine door when out at sea, not for you if you're nervous. Seperate beds at right angles. No fridge. Safe costs extra money. Shower and facilities small but quite recently smartened up. Towels and face cloths often grubby coloured and lacking in pile. Generally the room was kept clean. Television was poor in quality and quantity.

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Tortola

We walked around Road Town. It's small and easy to navigate. We vcisited a small museum and botanical gardens. Next to the port there is a lively little tourist market.

Antigua

We've visited Antigua before, both on cruises and on a longer vacation. Antigua has a lot to offer from beaches and stingrays to sight seeing and shopping. The shops and town of St John are right outside the port. A trip around the island by catamaran is also an excellent choice but only if you don't have neck or back problems because part of the journey is quite rough. Shirley Heights and Nelson's Dockyard is also worth a visit but if it has been raining pack mosquito repellent!

Barbados

Having stayed on Barbados there wasn't much we hadn't done so we took a taxi to the Orchid House because it was a showery day. Taxis are VERY expensive here. The gardens were pretty but worth the taxi fare is questionable. Barbados has a small tourist shopping area just inside the port and the town is a 15 minute walk further away.

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