Celebrity Constellation What We Loved And What We Hated

hey guys welcome back to the channel today we are going to share with you what we loved and what we hated about the Celebrity Constellation yeah there's a lot to love here it was a really good cruise that we had on the Celebrity Constellation and the first thing that we loved was the internet we don't usually ever say that about a cruise ship because usually it's pretty terrible but on the Celebrity Constellation they have the starlink internet and so we tried it out we first tried not having it and it was not it was okay it was it was okay but it was it was not good we quickly decided we wanted to upgrade and so we went down upgraded and the difference was night and day yeah it was immediate and so to give you kind of an idea of what the internet was like it was kind of like being in uh it was like bad Hotel internet which is really good for the for being on a cruise ship I was like you can do everything you can stream you can you can you basically don't know you're at Sea you would think you're just you know in a hotel on the internet and that's phenomenal for a cruise ship yeah and the price really wasn't that bad it was actually less than some other cruise ships to get the starlink um looking at uncl right now because you charge way too much for your internet and it's not good and it's not good so uh yeah the internet on Celebrity on the constellation phenomenal yeah yeah it was really good to have that and on that same note of the internet you can also share it so we only purchased one internet for one device and we were able to share it between us there are some uh internet services on different cruise lines that you cannot share but you can share it on the Celebrity Constellation and that was really awesome especially once we upgraded to the premium to the starlink it was great to be able to just you know zip right through stuff instead of waiting for it to load like if you open social media it took a while at first to open but once we had the premium it opened you know pictures would open right away so that was really good we were able to share between us and we were also able to do a hotspot and do several devices with the one service and by share what we mean is one person can be on and then when another person wants to get on it'll kick the first person off so you can both use it just not at the same time yes it's not distinct to just one device on some Cruise Lines it's distinct to one device and once you log in with that device it's the only one you can log into that is not a problem on Celebrity Constellation all right let's get to the second thing we love and that is that we like to swim at night usually and the pools completely empty at night like nobody in there we're the only person in them hot tubs pools all open yeah free so to ourselves it's the exact reverse of like a Carnival ship where the carnival the pools are full at night on Celebrity after dinner there's nobody in the pools pools were open you know it was just it's great because uh you just you have that space to swim and just enjoy the pool and hot tub you don't have to wait in line or anything so yeah there's actually room to do what you want which is great and speaking of pools yeah the great thing about the this ship in particular is they have in the solarium area they have a philosophical which is crazy and amazing and it's big we generally get the thermal Suite on most ships that we go on this the lasso Pool Spa area this the whole Solarium area uh on the subway constellation is better than any thermal Suite you've ever been in and it's free so it's crazy yeah and then there's nobody there yeah and it's 18 and over yeah so it's really nice too this is one of the greatest things you'll ever see on a cruise ship is it's basically a free thermal Suite it's open late there's nobody in it uh just amazing I've never seen a colossal pool so big it was enormous yeah it was twice as large as the biggest one we've seen so that's pretty crazy and it's free we actually it's one of we didn't end up getting the thermal Suite because we saw the celestial but we were like well they don't have one in the thermal Suite but it's out here for free why am I gonna pay for the sun use of the saunas when you don't need them and actually we found that you could go to the sauna for free in the women's and men's locker room they each had a sauna in there that you could use for free so that was pretty wild okay moving on next thing we love minimal announcements oh yes I loathe announcements honestly um just feed them through me to me through the TV and when I want to hear them I can hear them and turn the TV on but if I don't want to hear them I don't have to hear them and celebrity consolation minimal announcement almost none uh as a matter of fact at one point I was like do they make announcements on this on this yeah not that I was missing them but but it was um it was really quite nice to not have that voice feeding either into your room or hearing it out in the hallway constantly sending you somewhere yeah uh the beds are very comfortable yes oh my goodness yeah so I slept like a dream They're Not So Soft where you sink down into them which I hate because I feel like I'm getting sucked in um and I also don't hate sleeping like if I was on the floor on a hard board this was literally the Goldilocks bed it was perfect not too hard not too soft yeah uh another thing we loved about this ship was lots of places to sit quietly and just enjoy your time on the ship we did love that so many places to sit and uh that's that's just something that's important to us because yeah we did have a balcony cabin on this one if you want to see a tour of that you can check out our balcony tour and our ship tour but we actually had an extra large balcony yeah we did this particular cruise ships so definitely check that out if you want to see how you can get a bigger balcony yeah we did um but just loved all the comment spaces yeah there wear a lot and we do like to sit and read sometimes and if you don't you know you're tired or like if the Sun is hitting your balcony and you want to break and you want to go somewhere to read you can do that because there's plenty of spaces to do that on this ship okay the casino on this is smoke free and that one that was a big phosphorus because you do kind of have to from where our room was the easiest way to get to dinner was to walk through the casino they don't love it when they set a ship up like that because a lot of times it'll be Smoky and just walk through it so the first night we avoided walking through it second night we were like let's just walk through the casino we walked through it we're like there's no smoke so yeah yeah and then we realized oh it's smoke-free you can't smell anything at all so yeah so that was really nice because there are no doors on the casino so even better so in case you haven't figured out we're not smokers but you know if you want to smoke that's cool too but we just would prefer not to which is really nice that the casino was smoke-free yeah uh okay so that's the things that we loved about this ship and we we did have a great cruise but with every Cruise there are some things that you wish were different so we're going to get into those real quickly here uh and the first thing was that the entertainment we thought was below average and that's something that we've seen on cruise ships across the board yes since we started cruising again in the last year so the entertainment was just below average there's there's no other way to say it they haven't brought that back to yeah there was one comedian that was hilarious yeah it was actually really good yeah he was actually yeah so the entertainment wasn't terrible it was just below what you might remember you used to three years ago or so yeah I think they just you know the budget maybe is different or something but there weren't as many options for entertainment it felt like it was kind of like the same thing over and over like we mentioned there was a great comedian on our particular cruise and you know it's challenging when they don't have good entertainment because you know it was we were on an 11 day cruise so it's kind of important to have some good entertainment on there uh second thing was the food uh was I would say below average for celebrity so we've been on the celebrity Apex before and we've been on you know most Cruise Lines we have thought that the food on the Celebrity Constellation would be similar to the Apex and it simply was not you could you could definitely tell a difference so don't just think that all celebrity ships are going to be the same I think when you go on the newer celebrity ships you are paying a lot more and you are getting what you pay for exactly yeah so I guess we weren't aware that that was going to be the case but the food was still good just don't expect celebrity Apex right than the newest ship type food you're not going to get that yeah uh the next thing was that the ship upkeep probably needed some refurbishment it needs a dry dock at some point here too you know get some paint get some yeah some Polish yeah they they were actively you could see them working on various things but I don't think they were keeping up with it as quickly as they needed to for how things were looking and feeling so yeah I think a dry dock sometimes food would be really good one thing I immediately noticed was just like when you walk out onto our balcony you could see there was like scuffs and chips and paints and just kind of rust in several kind of made you feel like it needed needed a little bit and if you you could probably see that in the cabin tour a few not a not a deal breaker but yeah that's the thing yeah uh little things this is another uh thing that happens on a lot of cruise ships smoking area is on the walking Track I don't know why they do that I have no idea why they connect those two things I understand the smoking area obviously needs to probably be outside especially on a ship where you can't smoke in the casino um so I you know they're gonna shift that outside but it was literally on the path of the walking Track which didn't make a lot of sense yeah and there was no avoiding it whatsoever because you couldn't go further around because there was nowhere to go past you had to go past the smoking area in order to continue on the Walking jogging track yeah that's very perplexing there was a general lack of variety of places to eat so it is a smaller ship so you basically have the main dining room or the buffet so on some ships like NCL you'll have oceans or on a Carnival you'll have Guys burger bar or guys pick an anchor or something like that yeah there was no like extra special restaurant you could eat at if you didn't want to go to the buffet or didn't want to go to the main dining room and we just found that a little inconvenient because when you're on a longer Cruise a little more variety can go a long way right that is shrimp I found the staff was mostly inconsistent on this ship uh compared to the other celebrity ships we've been on and compared to the other lines in general that we've been on it did seem like this was kind of their first time on a cruise ship in general a lot of times when you're talking to staff on a ship they'll say oh I've spent the last three years on such and such on this ship they generally were saying this is my first time on a cruise ship right this is my first my first contract and it did kind of it did show because the uh the service in the main dining room was sometimes really really could be really slow really slow yeah they were definitely working hard at it and they had a good attitude did have a really good attitude and they were really nice it was just again inconsistent with the brand having been on Celebrity before this seemed out of character to have so many new staff people on one ship yeah uh and then I would say the pizza which is big for me I like to get the pizza it was below average um which you don't really go on a Sunday cruise for the pizza but but when there's the lack of food variety sometimes you your defaulty turn the pizza real quick so it wasn't the best pizza so overall I would say we loved way more than we hated but we want to be honest with you and give you uh just our opinion of what happened and uh we we really enjoyed the cruise would recommend it and think we had a great time yeah hopefully this will help you guys out to prepare as you head out on the Celebrity Constellation guys don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you have any questions leave those down below watch the other videos on the channel here about the celebrity Celebrity Constellation and we'll see you on board

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Length: 13min 42sec (822 seconds)

Published: Wed May 03 2023