Celebrity Cruises

This has been a huge week for Celebrity Cruises, as the ship of their visions, the Celebrity Ascent, was finally delivered. The ship now belongs to the cruise company and is less than one month away from her introduction to the world. Celebrity Ascent was officially handed to Celebrity Cruises at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique […]

Celebrity Cruises has announced that the fifth ship in its award-winning Edge Series will be named Celebrity Xcel, carrying on the unique experiences enjoyed on her sister ships while also going above and beyond for an unmatched premium holiday experience. Celebrity Xcel, the fifth vessel in the brand’s award-winning Edge Series, will be in a […]

  Celebrity Cruises has announced that the new Celebrity Ascent cruise ship is progressing towards completion.  The ship’s first open ocean voyage, sea trials, was completed without problems. In this phase of the construction process, the ship undergoes a series of manoeuvrability tests to ensure it can perform as expected. Celebrity Cruises proudly announces that the Celebrity […]

Celebrity Cruises has notified selected passengers booked on the Celebrity Millennium’s 24 October 2023 voyage that their trip has been oversold. The cruise line provides numerous options for passengers whose reservations have been cancelled, but why are oversold situations occurring for different cruise lines? Celebrity Cruises has notified a few clients that their reservation for the […]

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Celebrity Cruises, the brand that revolutionised the cruising business with its fleet of Relaxed Luxury resorts at sea, is lifting the standard once more by becoming the first ocean cruise line ever to receive the coveted Forbes Travel Guide (“FTG”) Star Awards. Celebrity ships join an exclusive and exclusive club of less than 20 land-based […]

By introducing their new virtual experience, the “wonderverse,” Celebrity Cruises is on a voyage into the future. Travellers can “see before they sail” on Celebrity’s newest ship in the Edge Series, Celebrity Beyond, by exploring a hyper-realistic digital recreation of the ship, complete with the ship’s spaces, entertaining signature moments like Celebrity’s Martini Bar Flair […]

During the 2024–2025 cruise season, Celebrity will offer customers many new destinations throughout the world on almost 500 cruises. For the 2024–25 cruise season, Celebrity will visit all seven continents, providing customers with approximately 500 cruise itineraries that include longer overnight stays and new homeports for some of its most popular vessels, including the Celebrity […]

The $1 billion Celebrity Edge will debut in Australia during the 2023–2024 cruise season, bringing multi-level suites and a large spa. Between December 2023 and April 2024, cruises ranging from six to thirteen nights will set sail from Sydney and Auckland to visit 22 ports in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. Tim Jones, […]

The first voyage of Celebrity Cruises’ newest ship, Celebrity Beyond, began in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and headed towards the Caribbean. The official naming ceremony for the ship was the highlight of the sailing celebrations, and it was presided over by the ship’s Godmother, Simone Biles, a 19-time world champion and seven-time Olympic medallist. The arrival […]

Celebrity Eclipse’s arrival in Sydney Harbour last week, Celebrity Cruises has returned to Australian waters after an absence of over a thousand days. In 2022-23, the ship will sail from Australia to New Zealand for a 12-night round voyage, marking the beginning of her season. This is the first of 17 voyages departing through April. […]

Following an absence of more than 900 days, Celebrity Cruises has returned to New Zealand waters with the introduction of Celebrity Eclipse, the line’s third cruise ship to dock in Auckland since the pandemic. After a transpacific voyage that began in Honolulu, the Celebrity Eclipse was greeted in Auckland by ‘Sparky,’ the world’s first full-sized […]

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In recent days, cruise lines also have announced plans for comeback sailings from such unorthodox cruise hubs as Nassau, Bahamas, and Haifa, Israel.

With COVID-19 adding uncertainty to travel plans around the world, Royal Caribbean Group has announced it will give guests greater control over their holiday decisions, allowing them to cancel cruises as late as two days before departure. The ‘Cruise With Confidence’ policy allows guests on Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Azamara and Silversea to cancel […]

Celebrity Cruises has cut steel on the third ship in its new Edge class, the Celebrity Beyond, in a ceremony at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France. The vessel is scheduled to debut in fall 2021, following the launch of the second Edge-class ship, the Celebrity Apex, in April 2020. Executives from both […]

The launch of Celebrity Apex will mark a milestone in the way vacationers spend their holidays at sea. The Celebrity Cruises’ ship that is slated to begin its first sailings in April 2020 will offer revolutionary experiences complete with itineraries that will leave travellers awestruck. It is the second ship in the highly anticipated Edge […]

Travel enthusiasts are fighting for the chance to be one of the first aboard a new luxury cruise ship — by finding microscopic codes hidden in five incredibly detailed ‘gigapixel’ photographs.

On TD’s cruise radar this week, Celebrity Cruises announces its latest ship, Hurtigruten reveals MS Roald Amundsen’s godmother and more.

Making waves on our cruise round-up this week are Celebrity Cruises’ revolutionised ship, Silversea’s all-inclusive polar expedition packages, sailings by the Mekong Delta and more.