Celebrity Summit Cruise To Bermuda ~ Part 4

We hate to spend our last day packing and acting like the cruise is over. So we don't. We pack lightly and use self assist disembarking. This gets us away from the endless waiting in a lounge after breakfast, the search for our bags amoung thousands of others on the pier and gets us off and running quickly. In this case to drop our friends at Newark Liberty. From the time we lined up on Deck 3 in the conference room to being off the ship and in the car was 15 minutes. We drop our friends and headed home after filling up on some cheap NJ gas (40 cents cheaper than in NY). Another great cruise vacation. Thoughts. Service was superb. Dining room, my time dining worked out great. New menu in the main dining room was superb. Never a bad meal and always a whole menu of "safe" choices available if the evening choices were not to your liking. Renovations for the most part were great. We peaked into, but did not eat in Qzine the new specialty restaurant. The new Martini bar is now midship and had a great vibe. Revelations has been returned from the dead. And frankly the former "Cirque Du Soliel" decor looked like Miss Haversham's bedroom from Great Expectations and spoiled one of the great rooms on any ship. The room however is back and beautiful. The new wine bar with it's fancy self serve dispensing machines was another great change as was the new Redevous lounge on deck 4. Michaels Club does not make a good sports bar because they still try to have entertainment there and they clash. It would be better left as an intimate quiet lounge. Captains Club Elite amenities were great. Continental breakfast in the Normandy was special and afternoon, pre dinner cocktails every night, were a treat. Aurora the Captains Club rep had the energy of any five people. Sue Denning the Crusie Director was perhaps the best we have ever experienced. Captain and staff were more accessable and participatory than any other senoior officers we have ever experienced. They were everywhere interacting with the passengers. Oh yes, Rosalba the on board future cruise rep may have been the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Entertainment onboard was good, not great, but not bad. Band and show staff were above average performers, as was staging. Overall however the shows were , " just another broadway review". Disappointing after the spectacular shows on Summit just two years back. The balance of the individual performers were ok for cruise ship entertainment. None stood out as exceptional except Sue Denning herself who performed a one woman show that was TOPS. The new Apple I lounge (internet) was a bit dificult to use at first and no one seemed to be able to get going without help from the staff. In our case it took the manager to get us logged in and only after a call from the Captains Club rep. A new onboard Apple Store was to debut on the next sailing. Prices looked good. Even if all you save is sales tax it would still save money to buy onboard. Ratings from me. Ship 10; service 10; dining room food 10; Windjammer food 8; entertainment 8; activities; 8 Captains Club amenities 10. Renovations to ship 10 (we peaked into new rooms added on decks 3 and 11 they looked great). Pool area lounges a 10 but a big negative that they took away 30 or 40 prime area seats to make 20 people happy out of 2000. Lastly , Summit, like most ships, has an extensive art collection. For the most part, for my taste, it is gastly, but fun. Great ship, great friends, great destination, great food. GREAT CRUISE. I'd do it every year. Hope you enjoy my thoughts. Papa