And this is my final evening on the Celebrity Summit. I’ve packed and my carry-on is outside my cabin door. I have my clothes for tomorrow and everything in my backpack except for this laptop and my phone. I have my airport transfer booked. (of note – Celebrity is offering a transfer to Long Beach Airport which means I could have taken SouthWest into Oakland…) but LAX is good enough.
Probably the only challenging thing I will have tomorrow is sorting through the eBooks on my phone to have reading material for the airport and flight home. I am out of stitching. Yes, I finished Fishing 4 Condiments, Quick Quaker, Wishful Thinking, and Part 4 of my Jeanette Douglas Travel piece – or as least as far as I can get on that one considering that I am missing one color of floss.
since it is the color I need for both the words going down the side & across the bottom plus all those tree trunks….. I can’t really count it as finished. But my plan is to complete one section each time I cruise…..
Looking back over the last 17 days, the following are absolutely excellent on this ship: the coffee shop, the buffet, the amount of lounge space, the kindness and graciousness of the staff. And for those who like casinos, this one is NO smoking. Period. This is an older ship, so the most common cabin is an “outside” with balconies falling a close second. Capacity is about 2k. There were very few children on this trip.
On the downside – I would not recommend the Backstage Tour or the “Beyond the Podium” speakers. I go to lectures to learn something. When the person up in front starts with what to expect out of this SHOW/Performance…. Anyway, I found the couple I went to were long on pictures and short on real facts.
And also of serious note – there are a number of locations that are not accessible friendly. For example, the doors going into the Sky Lounge take a bit of strength to open as do the doors to the solarium. Neither have electronic buttons to push. I have opened the door for more than one person in a chair or walker. The same, unfortunately, needs to be said about the public restrooms. Almost NONE of them have an electronic door button.
Oh – I know what I forgot – the new elevators. The Aft elevators are just what you would expect, but apparently at the last dry dock the mid-ship and forward passenger elevators were replaced with one that has this
for a control panel. Nice big touch screen numbers and the generic female voice telling you where you are going. In follow on to the above – I don’t think the 9/10/11 are reachable by someone in a wheel chair. I just looked it up – looks like the last dry dock for this ship was 2019 so perhaps some of these issues will be addressed within the next 12 months.
Headed home tomorrow – oh right, I said that already!
