The Eclipse Antarctica cruise was great - primarily because of MickeyLive! He engaged everyone in the scenery, terrific talks, great narration and interaction for 14 days! The cruise would have been boring without him. ALL of his talks were standing room only! The ship was fine, Captain Leo was also very engaging and friendly.
Celebrity shore excursions are ridiculously over-priced! Do your homework before and book your own online. Here's an example - We booked a Patrick Watts tour to Volunteer Point (Falkland Islands) about a year in advance for $180pp. (Estancia tours is also about the same). The SAME ship tour was OVER $500pp. This destination sells out. Volunteer point is a MUST to see the penguins! If you don't book other ports ahead of time just walk off the ship and grab a tour at the port. Don't waste your money on celebrity excursions. Also, the ship cannot leave without you - the port authority will not allow it.
The crew is forced to try to sell speciality dining meals. We actually bought a package of 4 on each of our back to back cruises. QSine was fun, once! We split the other 7 between Morano and Tuscan Grill. I tried to love Tuscan Grill but the food isn't great, at least the service is! Morana was consistently wonderful! We always requested Alin as our server! There's a tall waiter (don't remember his name) and we was somewhat arrogant. Our wine steward Fabrice was amazing!
We were upgraded to C1 from C2. Should have kept our C2 midship cabin only because of the views of the penguins and iceburgs. Cabin was back of the ship. very quiet
city tour followed by lunch at a ranch. Great end with transportation to the airport
theatre was small, old and hot! SHow itself was nice.