Celebrity Solstice Full Review (2024): What We Loved, Didn’t Love, and Hated
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- Welcome to our complete review of the Celebrity Solstice! 🌊 In this video, we dive deep into our experience on board the namesake of the Solstice-class for Celebrity Cruises, Celebrity Solstice. We share what we loved, what we didn’t love, and what we HATED about this ship. If you're considering a cruise on the Celebrity Solstice, this review is a must-watch to help you make an informed decision.
In typical This Cruise Life fashion, we take a look at the food, drinks, entertainment, ship and all the other things cruisers might be wondering about when thinking about booking a cruise. And while this video has a few more items in the didn’t love category, there was still a lot to love about our time on board.
Executive Producer Credits 🎬
This video is sponsored by Rocky’s parents! They blessed the entire family with a cruise to Alaska to celebrate Rocky’s niece graduating from high school. We are so thankful to have had the opportunity to sail with the entire family - and super appreciative that Rocky’s parents made this trip possible.
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👉 Watch our full review on Celebrity Solstice and leave your thoughts in the comments below! 👈
00:00 Intro
00:46 What we LOVED
15:17 What we DIDN'T Love
22:26 What we HATED
25:16 Final Thoughts - บันเทิง
1. Loved your video. It’s great to find youtubers that go straight to the point and are completely honest about the experience
2. I have been loyal to royal like for 12 cruises and I was considering booking a celebrity cruise to feel a more upscale experience. But your video has helped me reconsider this ship.
3. Loved your energy
@@aLaRmCaLL1983 thank you for finding us - and for your kind words!! We LOVE cruising and our hope is to share that same joy with others. That’s why we always lead with the positive - but are also always honest as we want to make sure folks pick the ship that’s going to be best for them! We loved our experience on Celebrity Apex and continue to hear amazing reviews on the other Edge-class of ships, so that could be a great option to consider for Celebrity! Look forward to sharing more adventures with you and the channel! -mark
I LOVE your honesty. It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you! We always trying to showcase our experiences with positivity and honesty.
as someone about to take the first cruise (to Alaska on Solstice) I totally get the "love" topic of this. But, I have to wonder if the other 2 topics are as impactful as these guys make it out to be. I look forward to finding out myself - and reporting back.
We would love to hear about your experience on board! We’re always try to be positive but also honest. Each person’s experience may vary.
@@patrickliddle7286 checking in! Hoping you had an absolute amazing time and that the things we saw outside the Loved section were not present for you, or at worst, minor inconveniences! Oh, and tell us everything about your first cruise to Alaska! Hope it was epic! -mark
That was a very generous 3 stars Rocky. Watched the whole video and I was thinking 2 ships at best. Thanks for the heads up!
I think we were probably more generous because we had such an amazing time with family on this sailing. ❤️ As always, thank you for watching and enjoy this cruise life with us!! :) We are hoping that some of the bigger issues (rust and upkeep) get taken care of before dry dock in 2026!! -Mark
Thanks for the honest review. My next cruise is the Firenze in October, can't wait!
We hope you have an amazing time! So excited for you to check out the ship.
Thanks for the honest review unlike other you tubers where some make everything great no matter how bad thing were .
Thank YOU for watching and sharing your thoughts. And you are very welcome. We always lead with what we love (and there's a lot), but we commit to always being honest. Never want someone to book something because we share a glowing review and then they get on board and are like, "Why is my balcony covered in falling paint chips?!?" haha ;) -Mark
I was there May 26th to June 2nd. Had a good time
We were cruise buddies! We also had a good time. Memories that will last a lifetime, for sure!
Love your content. Did this ship the year it came out and it was awesome. Doing it September vancover to Honolulu. I’ve recently been told if you see something you don’t like say something now.
That’s a valid point! We hope you have an amazing cruise to Hawaii. Such a great way to get to the islands!
I’m glad we share the same opinion. This ship is not worthy the celebrity brand. Just like the Eclipse. They both need a big refurb.
Let’s hope things get better during the 2026 refurb
Isn’t it bizarre that they wait for almost two years…
Did you guys ever go to the 8pm game shows with Nelly & Jono?
We caught those in-passing as we were either headed to or from the theater shows. We had dinner at 8:30 so there were a few things we weren’t able to do.
@@thiscruiselife Yh me and my family had our dinner at 20:30 too, the gameshow usually lasts half an hour so we went straight from there to the level 3/4 dining room
@@lek4367 Oh awesome! We'd usually leave the shows from the theater and have to run up to our room to get changed for the evening programs. We were so busy each and every evening on the ship, but had so much fun!
I loved Nelly and Jonno
I was just on the Reflection and Apex and loved those ships. Even the Reflection was maintained beautifully for not going through the Revolution process yet. When did you sail? I have a May bday and everyone says it is too early for Alaska.
We're so glad to hear that the Reflection was a great experience for you! This was the earliest Alaska cruise we've taken - sail away was on May 26th. It will likely still be fairly cold for your cruise (as it was for ours), but there's more chance that you'll see fresh snow on the ground and perhaps fewer ships/people. Our stop in Skagway was with three other ships, so it was quite busy in that town.
We were on the Solstice end of March 2024. I agree the upkeep of the ship was terribly disappointing. Our cabin was depressing. Our balcony was terrible. We were very disappointed.
It was very surprising to see a Celebrity ship looking like this. Not something we expected from the brand. They pride themselves in catering to a more mature crowd, but even us younger folks didn't care for that presentation.
Thanks for the review. I took a back to back sailing on the Edge in March and April and will be on the Ascent in August. It made me wonder if they are putting all of their energy jnto the edge class ships. I’ve been debating a transpacific on the Solstice for October 2025, but it sounds like that need for dry dock will be overwhelming by that time…yikes. At least the thumbs down for concierge vs veranda is actionable. Thanks guys.
Thanks so much for watching and sharing your own experiences! Yes; it does appear that a lot of the line’s love is going toward the Edge-class ships. The frustrating thing is that several of the maintenance items on Solstice seem so obvious (how much does it really cost to replace a worn out sign? A couple bucks?)
We think we might check out the Concierge experience on an Edge-class ship as a couple folks have suggested that it might be better overall. Would be kind of cool to get the definitive answer as to whether or not Concierge is worth it. Or, we just might save the money and put it toward the next one! We’ll see. Haha ;)
Thanks, again, for watching and sharing your comments! -Mark
Great review guys! I want to try Celebrity but fear I’ll only like the Excel class ships. So did you “extra” tip your server for poor service or did you let them know they need to do better by not giving them that additional amount. I hope your family that were on their first cruise will book another 😊❤🎉
Honestly, the rest of our family had a great experience. Since they didn't have anything to compare the experience to, it was all new and exciting. We didn't make it a big deal while cruising and therefore didn't remove gratuities or mention the speed of service. We know that the crew on board work hard and there may be bumps along the way - we don't see that as a reason to remove gratuities.
@@thiscruiselife I didn’t mean remove all the gratuities sorry about that. I meant how on the last night we usually tip our waiters staff extra cash in an envelope. Just wondering if you usually do or did not do that in this instance.
@@cindyt987 Ah, thank you for clarifying. We didn't provide any extra gratuities to the dining room wait staff. Not sure if the rest of the family did, but it wasn't our best service.
Why do people love celebrity so much it sounded disapointing
Honestly, we had a great time on the Celebrity Apex and were excited to check out another ship of theirs. We're not ready to rule out Celebrity Cruises just yet...
@@thiscruiselife I can’t find the room tour video 😌
@@user-zp9jv2pm7d it's coming, we promise! :) Should be up by mid-week. We had an oops on export with the audio, but didn't want to delay the full review. I'll make a note in the description that the room tour is coming! Thanks for the eagle eyes!! -mark
@@user-zp9jv2pm7d It's coming soon! Don't go far...