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    Cabin attendants’ attitude toward me as a LGBT person

    Cruise Director and other staffs’ attitude toward me as an LGBT person

    Overall gay comfort in dining/drinking areas

    Quality of LGBT gatherings

    Frequency of LGBT gatherings

    I saw many other LGBT passengers on board

    I saw out LGBT crew on board

    I felt comfortable participating as a couple in cruise ship sponsored activities

    I felt comfortable with common public displays of affection with my partner

    Ship activities from an LGBT perspective

    Overall rating of this ship as a gay-positive travel experience

    Beautiful ship

    GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE SHIP:

    Have travelled on the Solstice twice. Beautiful ship. Good value, I think in contrast to others I've been on, and way nicer to look at!

    WOULD YOU CRUISE THIS SHIP AGAIN:

    yes

    TELL US ABOUT YOUR STATEROOM:

    Average size, good amenities. Comfortable, not especially luxurious. Compact shower stall.

    HOW WERE THE PUBLIC SPACES:

    Beautiful public spaces. Quite grand. They spent a lot of money on decor, and it shows. Modern ambience and decor.

    TELL US ABOUT THE SERVICES:

    Very good, and extremely friendly service both times I was there. One of the staff recognized me from the previous year (bonus). Excellent food. Entertainment very good. Cirque de Soleil style show on the ship...very good. Food and restaurants especially good. Specialty restaurants worth it, especially Murano.
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    REVIEWED BY:
    londonbill
    Oct 12,2011

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    Cabin attendants’ attitude toward me as a LGBT person

    Cruise Director and other staffs’ attitude toward me as an LGBT person

    Overall gay comfort in dining/drinking areas

    Quality of LGBT gatherings

    Frequency of LGBT gatherings

    I saw many other LGBT passengers on board

    I saw out LGBT crew on board

    I felt comfortable participating as a couple in cruise ship sponsored activities

    I felt comfortable with common public displays of affection with my partner

    Ship activities from an LGBT perspective

    Overall rating of this ship as a gay-positive travel experience

    Making every passenger feel 100% welcome

    GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE SHIP:

    Having sailed on the Solstice for a 7 day getaway cruise back in January 2011, I thought it would be interesting to re-visit the same ship on a Pied Piper gay group cruise later in the year on a different route and compare the voyage. I could sum it up by saying 7 nights in the Caribbean was superb, 12 nights in Europe was spectacular. Embarkation in Barcelona was one of the easiest I've been through. I had forgotten my luggage tags, guys outside the terminal gladly took care of that in an instant and a smile. Lines moved quickly outside, with less than 10 minutes before was inside the terminal, and less than 45 minutes before I was checked in and boarding the ship. Ship, clean, modern, with excellent architectural details. I love the subtle fin design of the main dining room. The grand rooms are truly grand

    WOULD YOU CRUISE THIS SHIP AGAIN:

    yes

    TELL US ABOUT YOUR STATEROOM:

    Rooms on the Solstice are a nice step up from most lines. A good amount of storage, bathrooms like an upscale hotel. Think W Hotel at Sea. I think they run about 190 ft2. Bathrooms are a real step up from other cruise ships, instead of the stall feeling, you feel like its a hotel shower and not confining like most. Comfort was good although I chose a cabin directly adjoining the bridge which was interesting but pretty heavily trafficked outside the hallway. Rooms are cleaned at least twice a day, clothes folded and beds made up, great attention to detail.

    HOW WERE THE PUBLIC SPACES:

    One thing I absolutely adore is the warmth you get from the staff after you travel a few cruises with Celebrity. Last time I had been on Solstice, we had the same Hotel Director onboard as this voyage, and saw her the first day and she greeted me warmly remembering all my details.

    The second day of the cruise I found a 12 pack of bottled Pepsi in my cabin compliments of the Hotel Director, as she had remembered that I had mentioned last cruise that I didn't drink alcohol, and preferred Pepsi and the ship only carried Coke. When I saw her the next day I thanked her for the gesture (and the Pepsi), and she said she just felt bad she couldn't of had it onboard the first day instead of the second, but they had trouble finding it in Barcelona. Now how's that for attention to detail?

    Public spaces are spotless, another thing I notice is the attention to detail of the public and not so public areas. Always like to see a ship being maintained in the parts that are seen as ones that are not.

    TELL US ABOUT THE SERVICES:

    Two suggestions I strongly recommend is trying some of the specialty restaurants onboard. My two favorite are Murano and Tuscan Grill. Both excel but for different reasons. Tuscan Grill resonates with the sounds and smells of Italy. We had a group of about 10 dining together and the staff was more than accommodating to let us savor each other dishes as well as allowing us to get a few extra dishes so all could try.

    In Murano, we reserved the wine room, for the 7 of us, and so it was our own private dining room inside the Murano restaurant itself. Service was terrific although I think our waiter must have been new, as he tried his best to describe the way things were cooked kind of generically rather than knowing the specifics on how they were prepared. Luckily the Maitre D kind of helped in this regard, and kept it up to the quality of a Michelin type service.

    The main dining room was excellent, can't think of a bad meal I had there. The buffet was good any time of day breakfast, lun
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    REVIEWED BY:
    jwtrocks
    Nov 1,2011

  • User's Rating:

    Cabin attendants’ attitude toward me as a LGBT person

    Cruise Director and other staffs’ attitude toward me as an LGBT person

    Overall gay comfort in dining/drinking areas

    Quality of LGBT gatherings

    Frequency of LGBT gatherings

    I saw many other LGBT passengers on board

    I saw out LGBT crew on board

    I felt comfortable participating as a couple in cruise ship sponsored activities

    I felt comfortable with common public displays of affection with my partner

    Ship activities from an LGBT perspective

    Overall rating of this ship as a gay-positive travel experience

    Overall Wonderful Cruise Ship

    GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE SHIP:

    Overall value was very reasonable for the 12-day cruise. Nice ship- large, but very nice. Ship’s décor was okay, nothing spectacular.

    WOULD YOU CRUISE THIS SHIP AGAIN:

    yes

    TELL US ABOUT YOUR STATEROOM:

    Staterooms were good sized, comfortable and quite clean.

    HOW WERE THE PUBLIC SPACES:

    It took a while to get acquanited with the layout of the ship because of the overall size. The only thing that I thought was a bit off was how the fourth and fifth floors were laid out.

    TELL US ABOUT THE SERVICES:

    Expereienced some issues here. Food in the main dining room was above average however the first two nights, wait staff was at best fair. We were able to get another table assignment and wait staff improved ten fold. The last night, decided to dine with friends and it was a very disappointing dining expereince. Wait staff was terrible, and at times rude. And what is it with having to pay additional in the specialty dining rooms? Cocktail service was awful most of the time! At times waited 10-15 minutes before a server even approached us for our cocktail order; allot of the time we ended up merely going to the bar ourselves. Compained to beverage manager and thing did improve somewhat but not what we expereienced on the cruise two years prior - must have gotten spoiled be the outstanding service in 2009.
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    REVIEWED BY:
    Kevin2510
    Feb 28,2012

  • User's Rating:

    Cabin attendants’ attitude toward me as a LGBT person

    Cruise Director and other staffs’ attitude toward me as an LGBT person

    Overall gay comfort in dining/drinking areas

    Quality of LGBT gatherings

    Frequency of LGBT gatherings

    I saw many other LGBT passengers on board

    I saw out LGBT crew on board

    I felt comfortable participating as a couple in cruise ship sponsored activities

    I felt comfortable with common public displays of affection with my partner

    Ship activities from an LGBT perspective

    Overall rating of this ship as a gay-positive travel experience

    Disappointed

    GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE SHIP:

    Ship needed a good cleaning. Lots of sick people on our ship from an outbreak of the Norovirus. I'd been on this ship a couple of years ago and had a much better experience in 2009. Ship has obvious wear and tear. Our cabin had soiled drapes, finger smudges all over the furniture, etc. Cruiseline lost our luggage at disembarkment in Barcelona and we still do not have it in over a week.

    WOULD YOU CRUISE THIS SHIP AGAIN:

    no

    TELL US ABOUT YOUR STATEROOM:

    Decent sized balcony room. Cabin location was noisy, otherwise comfortable.

    HOW WERE THE PUBLIC SPACES:

    Most public areas were clean however the buffet employees were sick and sneezing all over the food.

    TELL US ABOUT THE SERVICES:

    Food quality down on this cruise. We've sailed Celebrity many times and have always had better food and service on other ships. Entertainment and cocktails were good.
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    REVIEWED BY:
    mnywmn1
    Sep 15,2012

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