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Contact Information:
Celebrity Cruises
1050 Caribbean Way
Miami, FL 33132
(800) 437-3111
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Why Celebrity Cruises?
 Solstice-class ships: Solstice, Equinox, Eclipse and Silhouette
High marks from Baby Boomers, gay cruisers, seniors, honeymooners
Millions spent to keep older ships feeling modern
Xpedition offers small-ship adventure in the Galapagos
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About Celebrity Cruises
2009 Editors' Picks Awards Winner!
Best for Healthy Dining (Celebrity Cruises), Best New Ship and Best Sun Deck (Celebrity Solstice and Celebrity Equinox)
2009 U.K. Editors' Picks Awards Winner!
Best New Ship (Celebrity Equinox)
Celebrity Cruises is entering a new era of larger ships and higher capacity -- competing even with the likes of Carnival Cruise Lines -- but don't mourn just yet for the little cruise line that offers personalized service. After all, no one believed that Celebrity could maintain its standards with its birth of Millennium-class ships. But it managed quite nicely, adding a series of enhancements that pleased even the most stalwart fans of smaller ships.
Celebrity Solstice (2008), Celebrity Equinox (2009), Celebrity Eclipse (2010), Celebrity Silhouette (fall 2011) and a still-unnamed fifth ship (2012) measure 122,000 tons -- bigger than even the largest ships in Carnival's fleet, save for 2009's Carnival Dream. All are about 30 percent larger than the Celebrity's newest Millennium-class ships.
With these 2,850-passenger ships, Celebrity aims to rock the notion that a cruise line that positions itself in the "premium" market must keep its ships small and cozy. So far, the plan has worked. The interior architecture of Celebrity Solstice, for example, is the best we've seen in some time, and even on a full sailing, the ship feels half empty. Passenger flow is excellent with no lines and no crowding, and onboard evolutions -- from a glass-blowing show to a top-of-ship Lawn Club featuring real grass -- have been welcomed and successful.
Aside from these "new ship" developments, Celebrity Cruises has spent the past few years -- pretty much since the launch of its last Millennium-class ship, Constellation, in 2002 -- upgrading onboard services and amenities. The goal in turning its attention inward was to introduce enhancements that would position the cruise line as a competitor to luxury line Crystal Cruises, albeit with a younger passenger demographic.
Celebrity was founded in 1989 by the Greece-based Chandris Group, which established the line's reputation as an upscale big-ship operator. Celebrity was acquired by Royal Caribbean in 1997 and now operates as its sister cruise line. With the 2004 launch of its wildly successful Celebrity Xpedition program, the line has been able to offer its upscale, active passenger base a new option: a once-in-a-lifetime, up-close-and-personal Galapagos Islands experience. Celebrity has become the only big-ship cruise line to offer year-round sailings there.
But you won't find Celebrity Millennium or Celebrity Summit trawling these small-ship waters. Instead, the company acquired the former Sun Bay I, a 2,329-ton, 98-passenger vessel, and transformed it into the 92-passenger Celebrity Xpedition. The aim? To combine the line's stylishness with more adventurous destinations.
Read the complete Celebrity Cruises Review
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Read More About Celebrity Cruises Ships:
Celebrity Century
• Celebrity Constellation
• Celebrity Eclipse
• Celebrity Equinox
• Celebrity Infinity
• Celebrity Mercury
• Celebrity Millennium
• Celebrity Silhouette
• Celebrity Solstice
• Celebrity Summit
• Celebrity Xpedition
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