Celebrity Summit - 15 Tips and Things we LOVED (post-revolution)

we recently went on the celebrity summit for an 11-day cruise we had an awesome time and what I want to be when this video is let you know about all the reasons why we love the celebrity summit and to kind of give you an idea of what you can expect on your cruise on the summit hi there I'm Alana from the website and blog of life Bal cruise where we help thousands of cruisers a month get ready for their cruise with our cruise travel tips now in today's video what I'm going to be doing is talking about the celebrity summit and all of the things that we really loved about this ship because I thought it could be really helpful for you if you are going on this ship now if you do like this video if you could please give it a thumbs up I really appreciate it and as well if you can let me know in the comments below if you are going to be going on at the celebrity summit if you love the celebrity summit like me if you have any other comments that's great too so I'd love to hear it so let's get started with our list of what we really loved about the celebrity side so to keep myself on track I have numbered them 1 through 15 so number one what we really liked about the celebrity Center were the cabins now we've been on this ship before so we were on before the Revolution in 2019 and we really love this ship even before but now it's even more beautiful now in this case we were in an inside cabin but we've been in the inside cabins the ocean views and the balcony cabins on this ship they are all really nice happens but the nice thing about this update is they've just made the decor so beautiful modern and also warm you will also find in the cabin you'll find excellent storage space better than I really found on the majority of cruise ships again a very beautiful decor you will find USB outlets next to the bed you will find USB outlets at the vanity or desk the mirror in the cabin is beautiful and bright so it's a great place to do your makeup if you do that and the back real I mean the bathroom is so nice that I want to decorate my own bathroom in those color schemes it's just really really beautiful and it feels so much more updated than anything else that I've seen on any other cruise ship soap or an older cruise ship you will love the cabins on the summit number two this is something that my husband pointed out and it's the size of the ship now the celebrity summit holds about 2,200 people or so it could be a little bit more if you have third and fourth passengers on the ship but it's really about that and it means that for that science of ship you actually feel the space on the ship and it's a nice contrast to some of the larger cruise ships that we've been on that as much as they have a lot of great things and some bells and whistles it's nice to feel that you're on vacation and you don't have a lot of lineups or you're not walking through a crowd of people so we really do appreciate this on the celebrity summit it's noticeable in the buffet it's noticeable when you're going into a show it's just a nice feeling to be on a ship and to not feel that feeling that sometimes people think is just perfect of course when you go on cruises that you need to feel that crowd and so with a medium-sized ship like this you actually don't feel the crowd there's a great amount of space and we'd love that number three it's the dining room menu now the food on the celebrity summit I'm on Celebrity is really very good but the dining room menu is really for a dining room for banquet style food is really excellent it's very very good and what we really did like is that especially for my husband and son there were a lot of beef choices there were some lamb choices there were some fish choices there was a nice variety and we have found that on some Cruise Lines more over the last few years there's less steak options in the dining room and we didn't find that on the celebrity summit so we really did love the menu in the main dining room number four the staff on the celebrity summit in the crew I just really honestly couldn't say enough about the staff from our cabin attendant who was really wonderful and truly went above and beyond he was folding some of the clothes that my son left out which I really would never have expected he did such a great job and we so appreciated and by the way we were in an inside cabin so we were not in a suite like he was so good and then the dining room staff the waiters an assistant waiter maitre d were so friendly and nice the bartenders on the ship from the sunset bar to the martini bar to every bar in between I just really couldn't say enough about the staff who greeted you as he walked by even the captain at the cruise director the entertainment staff that were involved that were friendly and that even the officers that you kind of saw walking around the ship that always had a little hello so that was really something pleasant about being on the summit as well number five now I like the pool areas because I like if the weather is nice I want to be sitting out by the pool I don't actually go in the water that much what I really like to sit out and get a little bit of Sun so we love the pool areas on the summit and in the main part of the of the ship there are two main pools one of them is small the other one is a little bit of a medium size but there were always some chairs there weren't too many chair hugs it may be because of demographic of the ship itself but that was really kind of Pleasant we were always able to find a chair although we are early birds and then we also really liked the solarium pool and the solarium pool is a I'm gonna try to pronounce this word fallows therapy pool so it's a therapeutic pool and it is a covered pool area and we really like this especially at the end of the day usually around 4 o'clock we would go in maybe for 20 minutes or a half an hour and it's warm water so I would say it's probably a good 90 degrees it might even be warmer than that it almost feels like less not a hot tub but like a warm pool with bubbly water and it was just really good for somebody who has a sore back or just even that you want to relax this was the absolute perfect pool and we love this Larry Poole number six cafe bacio have you heard of cafe L back view it is so good not only is a place to get excellent specialty coffee and teas but there are complimentary pastries that are so good my favorite was the lemon tart they were small which can be deceiving because I'm sure there are a million calories in them but they were so good and you're on vacation and cruise calories don't even count my husband loved the cheesecake but stop there and get a muffin in the morning time or get a pastry later on in the evening or in the afternoon and enjoy that and they do have also excellent specialty coffee it is Lavasa the brand that they're using so it's European coffee and it was delicious and just something to mention if you do have one of the beverage packages like the classic beverage package or the premium beverage package the specialty coffee is included and it is that good and it is worth it we also love the beverage package as a perk now I probably wouldn't buy the beverage package if it was on its own because I don't know that there's enough value in it for me based on how much that we do drink on ownership but when we book on celebrity what we really like is to be able to take advantage of those perks so of having the beverage package because we do find that for the price difference for us it is a very good value and then we really enjoy the ease of having it once we are on the cruise so even though if I didn't have the package I probably would be a little bit more careful and I would bring a couple of bottles of wine because they do allow you to bring one bottle of wine per person which is nice but I would be a little more careful and in this case I just felt like I was on vacation so when I wanted wine the waiter the sommelier would just you know continue to pour wine when we were in the dining room or when we wanted to drink by the pool I didn't think twice about it and that was really a nice feeling now something to mention is in our case we had the classic beverage package you could upgrade to the premium package and it's not really a tremendous amount of difference but if you don't want to upgrade because you just think that most of the things are on the classic package is fine for you it's up to nine dollars per drink so the majority of drinks are actually covered within that nine dollars there are some bills that are not included in that so for instance if you had a martini that would be approximately eleven to twelve dollars per martini so if you think you'll have maybe like three martinis a day or something it may be worth it for you to upgrade your package and there are some other things too that are included in the premium beverage package that are not included in the classic so it's worth it to look to see for you what is of value and if you're like me and most of the things on the classic package work for you you can actually just pay the difference between the price of the drink on the classic package nine dollars and the price of the drink that is a little more expensive so for a martini it would be about three or four dollars difference and you can pay that so just calculate the value for you so speaking of the beverage package another thing that we love about the celebrity summit is the crush martini bar and this is in the foyer of the cruise ship so instead of an atrium the celebrity summit has a grand foyer and it really is just very beautiful before dinner this is really kind of the place to be or after dinner for a little drink and the bartender's are very talented and you can see them just doing fabulous things as they make their martinis and making it fun for everybody it's a nice little place to hang out and I definitely enjoyed some of the martinis two of my favorites are the espresso decadence martini and that is like a combination of espresso coffee and chocolate and vodka heaven and otherwise the fresca martini that I don't it just makes me feel like it's kind of a light drink or something but it's really good so that is something else that we really love on the celebrity summit number nine is the Ocean View Cafe and the Ocean View Cafe is the buffet on the celebrity summit and especially now with the refurbishments with the celebrity revolution it is so nice and so spacious that I don't think I ever been in a buffet that I felt so at ease going in so relaxed comfortable like it was a pleasure to sit down within the buffet and actually like at a table and eat there the decor is just beautiful so that's part of the revolution but in terms of the buffet itself something that I really like is that there are stations in the buffet so that kind of avoids those big lineups where people feel like somehow maybe you're cutting it's a line when all you need is you know one little potato or a little bit of salad or something so it's just nice to have those stations and as well what we kind of liked is that the food was not it's gonna sound funny but the food was not over abundant yes there was always enough food but didn't feel like those buffets where you feel like oh my gosh there's just so so so much because you had those stations you could kind of pick and choose and the variety did change a little bit from day to day so we kind of thought of it that there was you know a really poor a buffet a really quite a good quality of the food and the choices and there were some things that we really liked we loved the eggs benedict station where they did three different kinds of eggs benedict in the morning time in the buffet we loved that there's also the pizza station which is open I think all the time including late-night the pasta station there were also a lot of places where you could get a lot of fruits so a lot of little fruit bowls that were set up or other kinds of fresh fruits so we really like that as well and although we're not vegan there were some vegan choices that we saw and some vegetarian choices I would say it was a small section so but just some information for anybody that does appreciate vegan and vegetarian choices and we saw some gluten-free options as well number 10 now right outside of the Ocean View Cafe is the sunset bar so even if you don't drink this is an area that I I think you should go and check out because what you can do is you can actually eat outside of the buffet area there's beautiful seating that is out there and now especially since the new revolution and it's also you get an after view so it's an absolutely perfect place to have your breakfast maybe in the morning time or we loved even we were in ports we were in Bar Harbor and it was just beautiful to be able to sit outside and to have our breakfast I will give you a little bit of a warning due to the celebrity revolution as much as they made it very beautiful they made this sort of covering on top of the bar that has sort of these openings it's very beautiful very artistic even but it doesn't have a lot of shade or a lot of covering and that was really something that a lot of people said was that in the past that that area had some more covering in terms of shade and as well on rainy days that you could sit out there because you were covered and now that covering is sort of gone so I don't know if celebrities gonna make any changes with that if they can't even but that's just a little bit of a warning that midday it might get really really hot there but the morning and the late afternoon when you're especially if you're leaving port definitely go there and I will give you a little tip they have some excellent sangria behind at that sunset bar so definitely if you like sangria maybe have one there I found that bar in particular it was just was just really good number 11 so the Tuscan Grill is one of the specialty restaurants on the celebrity summit they also have another specialty restaurant called cuisine we did not go there so I can't say how that is but we happen to love the Tuscan grill the Italian steakhouse onboard some of my recommendations include the antipasto platter which I just think is really nice when you're ordering your meal we like to get our antipasto platter right away and then have our wine and while we're choosing our main dishes and stuff we like to have that antipasto platter and as well something just note is that you can if you're a few people consider ordering family-style for your appetizers and even your sides this way you can try a few different things we particularly liked the calamari I will actually link just down below the description I will link a blog post that I have which is a review of the Tuscan grill because it includes the menu and includes some photos of some of the different foods so you might be interested in that the pastas in particular are very good I personally find them very head though so what we did is we ordered like half portions of them and we even shared that because it really is a lot of food the desserts are definitely very special so save some room for desserts and consider sharing this last time we tried the fig gelato and that was so good but the other desserts are really good as well number 12 now I really shouldn't have saved this for the end but something that we really loved about the celebrity summit was the attention to detail on the celebrity summit and I think this is just across the board with celebrity but we really do appreciate all of those little extra touches it just makes the cruise experience really feel like a vacation we feel so taken care of so you know just to give you an example coming back from port having you know having the staff waiting with citrus infused water I just like that I feel fancy when I have centrist infused water and cold cold washcloth little you know hand towels that you could just cool off after a really hot day another day we were in Bermuda and it really rained like we were coming back and we were soaking I could have wrung out my my dress and as we arrived and we you know came in and we were going in through security getting back into the ship the ship staff were there and they were waiting for us with towels like the big pool towels and it was just a little thing but just those kinds of things where they seem to really be taking care of the guests on board we really appreciate it and it just feels like we're on vacation number 13 we love the food options on the celebrity summit so not only is the main dining room really really good the buffet is really good but casual food when we feel like something really really casual like a burger at the pool or french fries there is the mass grill there is also room service so which we really like also not all the time but we certainly do like sometimes to order room service both for our son that sometimes will come in late at night so I do something where sometimes all order room service at like a or something like that and he has you know sort of that late night snack when he comes in the buffet there are options like pizza and pasta and fruit that are open late so we just really like all of those different options oh and something to mention is the spa cafe when we're not feeling like a burger by the pool and feeling like a healthier option but not necessarily going in for an entire meal the spa cafe has some really nice healthy options there is a tomato and mozzarella or bocconcini salad with a little bit of pesto and a little bit of basil that is just really really nice and there are some other salads as well so I would suggest in the spa cafe which is just at the solarium pool that is included so definitely check out what they have as well as you might find some things that you really like number 14 we just love the overall look of the ship but in particular the main dining room which we is just it's a very beautiful dining room but in particular now after the update the colors are so warm and they feel like almost like like you're kind of in the sea that's all I could explain it us but it feels very much like that but with these gorgeous large windows where you see the after the ship it is a very beautiful two-story dining room very elegant so we just really really love that and on top of that the ship itself has this really wonderful modern but also really warm decor I will leave that video for you where we did a review of the ship and we did kind of a walk-through of the ship sort of a tour so if you aren't interested in that I will leave that as well for you just above number 15 it was the variety of entertainment that actually surprised us this last cruise we have found that the entertainment on the celebrity summit just seems to be getting better and better and this last cruise the variety was great so while there are the traditional you know singers dancers that kind of thing those shows on celebrity and those are really you know pretty good we also found the guest entertainers we're so varied and really good and during the day we've noticed that the entertain Souths with the activity staff just really sorta more youthful activities there was like the archery game which son was like not like kind of pretend archery because it wasn't like with anything pointy that was held in the revelations bar but that was a lot of fun there were just a lot of things on the cruise the silent disco was a lot of fun just a little warning I wouldn't say that there's a tremendous amount of nightlife on on the celebrity summit um we found actually kind of died down by about 11:00 11:30 which was fine but so I wouldn't and it could be the demographic of the cruise that we were on in particular but still it was a very very alive sort of feeling on this trip a very friendly feeling and the entertainment was really really good so those are the 15 things that we really loved about the celebrity summit if you're going on that ship let me know in the comments below if you are going on or even if you've been on and if you agree with me if there are things that I forgot because there were honestly other things that we really liked about about this cruise about this ship so let me know as well because I'd love to chat with you about that now if you did like this video I really appreciate it if you could give it a thumbs up it means a lot to me and if you would like to subscribe if you'd like cruise haunted cruise tips cruise logs then please consider subscribing to the channel now I am on Instagram and I am on Facebook at lightbulb Cruise and I'd love to connect with you there thanks for watching happy cruising

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Published: Sun Nov 03 2019