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Mon Nov 03 2008, by Travel Trade Staff, credited and published by Traveltrade.com
The new Celebrity Solstice is scheduled to sail into Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale today.Ideal viewing platforms include Fort Lauderdale Beach and surroundings, while residents with waterfront condominiums can enjoy a bird’s-eye view.
Celebrity Solstice upon arrival will be fully “dressed” with vibrant flags flying above its industry-first half-acre Lawn Club, Hot Glass Show, and one of the highest percentages of verandas in the business, not to mention the wealth of attributes found inside the sleek, 122,000-ton ship.
Soon after its arrival, Celebrity Solstice will serve as the perfect platform for Celebrity Cruises’ first Global Sales Meeting, followed by a series of exclusive, two-night preview cruises for invited travel agents, press and other dignitaries. Travel agents attending Travel Trade’s 25th Annual Leisure Travel Conference in Miami, Nov. 15-17, will be among the first to see the Solstice during the conference’s sold-out ship inspections.
Celebrity Solstice will be named in formal ceremonies on Nov. 14, and will embark on its inaugural season Nov. 23, on a series of seven-night Eastern Caribbean cruises roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale. In spring 2009, the will introduce a series of romantic 10- and 11-night Mediterranean sailings roundtrip from Rome.
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ShipMates:
Ages 3 – 6.
Kids will enjoy Games, Scavenger hunts, cartoon trivia, t-shirt painting, Ice Cream sundae making, and kid oriented-ship tours.
* Children must be 3 years old, potty trained, pull up and diaper free to enter youth program facilities or participate in youth program activities, unless accompanied by a parent, however parents are welcomed to borrow toys for their children’s entertainment.
Celebrity Cadets:
Ages 7 – 9
Children will participate in parties with themes like Dinosaurs and Science & Space. Children will also take part in fitness programs and outdoor games, like relay races, team trivia, talent shows, and arts and crafts.
Ensigns:
Ages 10 – 12
Kids enjoy fun days of Pool Olympics and team building games, karaoke, and pizza making demonstrations. Kids can participate in Young Mariners Club, costume balls and late night pizza parties serving delicious favorites in a fun, informal atmosphere.
Admiral Ts:
Ages 13 -15 & 16 -17
Teens are divided into two age groups and get free run of the X-Club, with videos and late night dances. X Club is the place designed with teens in mind. Teens will find an arcade, a coffee club, and a dance bar. X Club gives the older kids a place to hang out with plenty of adult supervision. Daytime activities include sports tournaments, Celebrity Survivor Series, Sushi making demonstrations, and much more.
Toddler Time
Celebrity Cruises invites young cruisers under the age of 3 and their parents to play with Fun Factory toys, including LeapFrog® Edutainment. Parents must accompany toddlers in the Fun Factory for any organized activity.
Celebrity Cruises has launched a new shopping program that is open for business 24 hours a day. Shop Celebrity is an online portal that allows consumers and travel agents to order items for delivery either onboard or at home. Shop Celebrity also includes the launch of Celebrity’s new amenity program, Gifts by Celebrity. Shop Celebrity offers a range of Celebrity logo items and apparel, gifts and memorabilia, as well as culinary treats, spirits, wine and soda. Within the portal, consumers and travel agents also have the opportunity to order from partner websites — LeapFrog School, timetospa, and Celebrity Vineyards, which includes products by Riedel Crystal, the renowned manufacturer of wine glasses that offers comparative wine workshops on Celebrity’s ships.
“Based on feedback from our guests and travel agent partners, as well as the growing popularity of online shopping in today’s marketplace, we wanted to create a virtual experience reflective of the bricks-and-mortar shopping experience that we offer on our ships,” said Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Celebrity’s vice president of hotel operations and onboard revenue. Shop Celebrity includes a new amenities program named Gifts by Celebrity, which is comprised of three categories. Shop Aboard allows consumers or travel agents to purchase items to be delivered onboard during a particular sailing. Travel agents are eligible for a 10 percent discount when placing orders by phone, and will soon have access to an agents-only website that will offer the same discount. The discount applies exclusively to gifts that the travel agents are buying for their clients who are sailing with Celebrity. Shop Ashore allows for the purchase of items to be delivered to guests’ homes or offices before or after a cruise. And Group Gifts by Celebrity offers items that can be ordered for delivery to affinity and incentive groups before, during or after a cruise. Groups also have the opportunity to add their logo to certain items that include the Celebrity logo. A volume discount is available online.
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New itineraries for the Celebrity Millennium and Celebrity Mercury has been announced for cruises leaving from Baltimore, Maryland and Charleston, South Carolina, as well as from San Juan, Puerto Rico.The line also announced plans to discontinue its Australia and New Zealand cruises, previously scheduled for late 2009 and 2010 on the Celebrity Millennium.
The 2,038-guest Celebrity Millennium will end its 2009 season in Alaska with cruises previously scheduled for the 1,898-guest Celebrity Mercury, offering more capacity on the sailings.
The itineraries will reflect those previously announced for Celebrity Mercury, with the addition of a 12-night wine-themed cruise departing from Vancouver on Sept. 28, 2009, followed by an eastbound, 16-night Panama Canal cruise on Oct. 10, 2009, from San Diego to San Juan, where the Millennium will offer a series of 10- and 11-night Southern Caribbean cruises roundtrip from San Juan, beginning Oct. 26, 2009. Ports of call will include Tortola, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Curacao, Aruba, St. Croix, St. Kitts and Dominica, with slight variations between the 10- and 11-night sailings.
Guests with reservations on the sailings previously scheduled for Celebrity Mercury will be contacted and re-accommodated on the same sailing dates on Celebrity Millennium, at the rates paid.
Celebrity Mercury will sail a 17-night Panama Canal cruise from San Diego on Oct. 23, 2009, ending in Baltimore. There, from Nov. 2009 to Feb. 2010, the ship will sail a series of new 12-night Eastern Caribbean cruises visiting St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Antigua, St. Maarten and Tortola, as well as four nine-night cruises visiting Charleston, Key West, Cococay and Nassau, Bahamas.
The Mercury will then present a series of 10- and 11-night Eastern and Western Caribbean voyages from Charleston from February through April 2010, with visits to St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St. Kitts and Tortola on the Eastern series, and Key West; Costa Maya, Mexico; Belize City, Belize; Cozumel, Mexico; and Nassau on the Western sailings.
The new itineraries on Celebrity Mercury replace the Southern Caribbean cruises from San Juan previously scheduled from Nov. 2009 to April 2010. Guests with affected bookings will be contacted and offered the option to be re-accommodated in like accommodations on identical South Caribbean itineraries on Celebrity Millennium at the rate paid.
Guests holding either individual or group reservations on Millennium’s previously scheduled Australia and New Zealand cruises between Oct. 9, 2009 and March 22, 2010, will be offered the option to re-book on the Millennium’s Australia and New Zealand cruises between Oct. 17, 2008 and April 12, 2009, subject to availability, at the prevailing rate, and will receive a $600 per-stateroom or $800 per-suite onboard credit.
Alternatively, these guests may rebook the Millennium’s new Panama Canal or Southern Caribbean sailings between Oct. 10, 2009 and April 16, 2010, and receive a $200 per-stateroom or $400 per-suite onboard credit.
For more information about rebooking and cancellation, please visit www.nycvaluecruise.com for a live chat.
Celebrity Solstice departed the Meyer Werft shipyard Sunday in Papenburg, Germany, as the largest ship ever built by the shipbuilder. In a milestone event known as “The Conveyance,” the 2,850-guest Celebrity Solstice made its way down the River Eems, as tens of thousands of area residents lining the river banks cheered and photographed the event. “This is a very momentous occasion for Celebrity Cruises,” said President and CEO Dan Hanrahan. “Celebrity Solstice is the perfect manifestation of what the Celebrity brand is all about: extraordinary service, spectacular dining, and fabulous style and design. And as the first in a series of five Solstice-class ships, it’s a vivid example of the growth and momentum of the Celebrity brand, and our commitment to meet our guests’ and travel agent partners’ demands for more vacation options with Celebrity.”
Among the attributes on Celebrity Solstice are the industry’s first Lawn Club, a half-acre recreation area with real grass; live glassblowing demonstrations; larger staterooms, with designs inspired by a panel of five women; 10 restaurants; and a new category of accommodations, AquaClass, designed to offer a spa vacation experience at sea. Celebrity Solstice will be berthed in Eemshaven, Netherlands, from Sept. 29 to Oct. 24, with two sea trials planned during that period, in addition to crew arrivals, training, provisioning and finishing work onboard. The ship will depart Eemshaven on Oct. 24 on a trans-Atlantic voyage. Arrival in Fort Lauderdale is planned for early November, followed by promotional cruises for invited travel agents, press and other dignitaries. The ship will be named in formal ceremonies on Nov. 14, and will begin its maiden season Nov. 23, with a series of seven-night Eastern Caribbean cruises roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale to San Juan, St. Maarten, St. Kitts and Tortola during this fall and winter. Beginning in the spring, Solstice will operate 10- and 11-night Mediterranean cruises from Rome.
It has been said that the Maltese islands are the ‘open air museum of the Mediterranean’, offering 7,000 years or more of history to explore with numerous cultural, historical and megalithic sites unique in the world. The islands boast prehistoric ruins older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Egypt, and are steeped in the legacy of the medieval order of the Knights of St John, who used the island as their stronghold for defending Christendom.
Experience what cruising is really about in Celebrity’s Europe. Explore lands rich in romance languages, classic architecture, food, art and music. Along the way, in true Celebrity Cruises style, savor fine wine and world-class cuisine that rival any found on these timeless shores.
Her name conveys the sheer vastness of space. And at nearly 900 feet in length, her size, as well as what she offers her guests, is indeed, out of this world. One of three Century class of ships, Galaxy offers everything you need to ensure a comfortable, memorable cruise experience. Tastefully decorated accommodations, bars and lounges to suit every taste and restaurants to please every palate, combine to make Galaxy a truly wonderful, jaw-dropping world unto herself.
Italy’s third largest city thrives on the chaos that prevails amid its busy streets. This is the place where pizza was invented and its restaurants continue to serve some of Italy’s finest cuisine. Sheltering on the Bay of Naples and dominated by the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, Naples is naturally imbued with the best of nature’s bounty. The city is somewhat schizophrenic in its juxtaposition of superb museums, Renaissance and Baroque churches alongside crumbling tenement blocks and squalor.
The principal Tuscan city of Florence (Firenze) nestles below the wooded foothills of the Apennines, along the banks of the Arno River. The works of Botticelli, Michelangelo, Bruneschelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Boccaccio, Alberti, Masaccio, Donatello, Vasari and Fra Angelico imbue the city with the magnificence of their contribution to art and life. The city itself is muse to some and home to many stylish citizens who titivate the cobbled streets and fashionable piazzas with their inimitable Italian flair.
Crossing the Atlantic aboard Celebrity means soothing sheets of beautiful blue water and fiery sunsets viewed from your private veranda. As you prepare to dine, a staff member greets you by name as your favorite vintage waits to tantalize your palate with its perfectly aged bouquet.
During your voyage, you discover beautiful new lands and learn fascinating things about the native people and their cultures. In your suite, you revel in modern-day luxuries that early travelers could never have dreamed – such as welcome champagne, European-style butler service and oversized bathrobes. Celebrity’s Transatlantic voyages are all of this and more.
Appropriately named, Celebrity Summit will leave you feeling as if you’ve reached the absolute pinnacle of premium cruising. Large in size yet intimately elegant in ambience, Celebrity Summit boasts all of the services and amenities that have made Celebrity the preferred choice of avid cruisers around the world. Come aboard and scale the heights of luxury on Celebrity Summit.
