Celebrity or Disney
#1
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Celebrity or Disney
Has anyone sailed on the Celebrity Equinox or celebrity or Disney overall? Is there generally an older crowd on Celebrity? Does Disney have adult only sections for the pool/hot tubs? I have sailed on Royal, NCL, and Carnival. I enjoy a lot of entertainment. How does the food and entertainment rank compared to other cruise lines?
#2
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Has anyone sailed on the Celebrity Equinox or celebrity or Disney overall? Is there generally an older crowd on Celebrity? Does Disney have adult only sections for the pool/hot tubs? I have sailed on Royal, NCL, and Carnival. I enjoy a lot of entertainment. How does the food and entertainment rank compared to other cruise lines?
Bottom line, its one or the other!
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#3
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,785
Has anyone sailed on the Celebrity Equinox or celebrity or Disney overall? Is there generally an older crowd on Celebrity? Does Disney have adult only sections for the pool/hot tubs? I have sailed on Royal, NCL, and Carnival. I enjoy a lot of entertainment. How does the food and entertainment rank compared to other cruise lines?
Entertainment on Disney cruise is mostly geared toward kids.. I mean it is a Disney cruise after all. We enjoyed them but probably won't go by ourselves if we were not with our kid. And a lot of the activities and games require you to have watched the popular Disney channel shows on TV. Even though we are Disneyland season pass holders, our kid doesn't know any of the answers to the trivial games they have on the ship.
#4
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 20
Agree that Disney Entertainment is First Class. Disney University is the Best Children's Program; The Counselors all had degrees in early Childhood Education. Enjoyed their dining room rotations with Disney Themes.We asked that our granddaughter be served her meal and Mickey Mouse dessert first with our appetizers, then drop her off at Disney University before returning to our table for a leisurely dinner They offer separate areas: adults only, teens and family with young children on board and in port at Castaway Key. Disney is not bashful about tariffs. We prefer the stateroom separation from the child and full tubs rather than showers only.
Celebrity does attract fewer children but the passenger ages (like aboard Princess or Cunard) do range from toddlers to seniors.The quality of Celebrity meals is comparable to Holland America, although the latter attracts a much older clientele and more sophisticated entertainment. Our mid thirties daughter was one of the youngest when we sailed the Pacific Coast of South America.
Celebrity does attract fewer children but the passenger ages (like aboard Princess or Cunard) do range from toddlers to seniors.The quality of Celebrity meals is comparable to Holland America, although the latter attracts a much older clientele and more sophisticated entertainment. Our mid thirties daughter was one of the youngest when we sailed the Pacific Coast of South America.
#5
Join Date: Jan 2013
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Has anyone sailed on the Celebrity Equinox or celebrity or Disney overall? Is there generally an older crowd on Celebrity? Does Disney have adult only sections for the pool/hot tubs? I have sailed on Royal, NCL, and Carnival. I enjoy a lot of entertainment. How does the food and entertainment rank compared to other cruise lines?
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#6
Join Date: Sep 2008
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I've been on Disney twice and also on NCL, Silversea, Regent, and Seabourn.
The Disney food is pretty good.
There are adult only areas.
That being said, if my travel party was adults only, I wouldn't step foot on Disney. And I like WDW etc. Just no need to be with kids (even if there are adult only areas).
The Disney food is pretty good.
There are adult only areas.
That being said, if my travel party was adults only, I wouldn't step foot on Disney. And I like WDW etc. Just no need to be with kids (even if there are adult only areas).
#7
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The entertainment is top-notch, and we also got to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 3D on opening night. The food was mediocre, at best--we weren't even that impressed with Palo (especially with the surcharge and the suggestion of a tip on top of that).
I could get a pretty sweet cabin on Celebrity and still save a bunch of cash compared to Disney.
#8
Join Date: Jan 2003
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We have a full ship of screaming kids with the parents trying to control them. They were standing there at their balcony sipping wine. As we wave to each others, I can see on faces of parents on our ship.. they were all thinking the same thing... "Could we switch cruise ship?"
#9
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It may well depend on the particular ship but I've been reading some particularly-horrid TRs about the Celebrity Millennium focussing on the poor shape of cabins and horrible food/service in the MDR while the ship was in the east Asia over the past few months. Aqua class passengers report not being able to get into Blu among other things.
Only reason I am considering the cruise is it's a cheap TPAC (<<US$1000 p.p inc. tax, fees and gratuities, about the same daily cost as their Classic Beveareg Package).
Only reason I am considering the cruise is it's a cheap TPAC (<<US$1000 p.p inc. tax, fees and gratuities, about the same daily cost as their Classic Beveareg Package).
#10
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It may well depend on the particular ship but I've been reading some particularly-horrid TRs about the Celebrity Millennium focussing on the poor shape of cabins and horrible food/service in the MDR while the ship was in the east Asia over the past few months. Aqua class passengers report not being able to get into Blu among other things.
Only reason I am considering the cruise is it's a cheap TPAC (<<US$1000 p.p inc. tax, fees and gratuities, about the same daily cost as their Classic Beveareg Package).
Only reason I am considering the cruise is it's a cheap TPAC (<<US$1000 p.p inc. tax, fees and gratuities, about the same daily cost as their Classic Beveareg Package).
#11
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Has anyone sailed on the Celebrity Equinox or celebrity or Disney overall? Is there generally an older crowd on Celebrity? Does Disney have adult only sections for the pool/hot tubs? I have sailed on Royal, NCL, and Carnival. I enjoy a lot of entertainment. How does the food and entertainment rank compared to other cruise lines?
main dining room was more than satisfactory.
Choose wisely.
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#13
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Phoenix
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What was bad about the Millennium? I'm booked on the Constellation in April and heard they are very similar. I've been on X's newer ships but this is my first time on one of the M class or older ships.
#14
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Having had about 25-30 delightful days on Celebrity's newer ships, I came away believing that the M-class ships might be held together with duct tape.