We, husband and I, in our mid 30s, booked this cruise back in October - based on the ports and a great package deal with our travel agent, a wine tasting cruise with an Oregon based winery. This is our 8th cruise, and 2nd with Celebrity, first time on the Reflection.

As the time grew closer our cruise critic roll call thread was on fire! We had well over 130 pages of posts and the vibe in the roll was awesome - we were so looking forward to meeting everyone. We had a spread sheet set up with hundreds of comments and tours and shared excursions and such all allowing multiple people to update.

We shared a taxi from the airport with a couple on our roll call and were at the cruise port at 1045am. We were through check in and on board within 15 minutes. We were given glasses of champagne upon embarkation - but then told we couldn't take the glasses in the elevator.... so there were a bunch of people standing in Deck 4 chugging champagne trying to catch the next elevator - it was funny - we took the stairs. Read more