We had some very talented staff on board the Infinity. While we were having our usual morning coffee we watched one of the table staff create this little marvel out of a couple of paper napkins, talented!!Temperatures were great so we spent both days lazing around the pool deck, walk around and looking out to sea. The ship had some informational talks about how the ship navigates and what kind of propulsion systems they have to move the ship through the water and into ports etc. Very informative.
As we were getting close to the end of our cruise, everything was on sale in the shops, including alcohol!! Yippee, we picked up large bottles of Crown Royal and Tangeray for very reasonable prices.
The two days at sea went very quickly and it was time to get ready to disembark. As we were doing a "Walk Off", which means that we would disembark ourselves because we had arranged a car rental to drive back to the trailer in Ocala, about 4 hours away.
We disembarked about 7:30 AM and had cleared customs and we were picking up the car by 9:00 AM after getting a ride to the car rental agency on their shuttle bus. We are off!!
CRUISE SUMMARY
The cruise itself was excellent, the itinerary was not perfect as there were too many days at sea, but looking at other cruises this was quite normal for a cruise that went all the way through the Panama Canal. Not many cruises do this.
The service we received was excellent, the embarkation and disembarkation were well organized and moved along quite quickly. Our food servers were great, our room porters while not perfect did a good job.
Unfortunately the down sides for us were:
1. The condition of the ship itself. The Infinity looked old, it had supposedly come out of dry dock about a month before our cruise following some minor spruce ups. The chairs in the breakfast/lunch cafe, the main dining room and the high end Tuscan Grill were stained - what! The carpets in many areas were old, there were things in our stateroom that did not work, the shower was loose on the wall we could not hear any of the ships announcements in our stateroom. These are things that should not be seen on a cruise ship in my opinion.
2. The meals, while our service was excellent there was nothing extravagant or special about our meals - they we very bland. We had lobster one night that was so overcooked it was rubbery. We had heard that the meals were one thing that Celebrity was known for - sorry not on this cruise. We have been on two other cruises with another company that had just wonderful meals all of the time.
So, can I or would I recommend Celebrity as a cruise line? Sorry no. Our next cruise will not be on Celebrity.
Here are some fun facts supplied by Celebrity for the Infinity. The following is an average for ONE WEEK!
1,500 pounds of Tenderloin - 1,400 pounds of Chicken Breast, 1,200 pounds of Pork Loin
350 Pounds of Tuna - 3,500 dozen fresh Eggs - 7,000 pounds of Potatoes - 1,500 pounds of Carrots
1, 200 pounds of Cookies - 5,000 pounds of Fresh Fruit - 1,800 pounds of Whole Chicken
2,700 pounds of Rack of Lamb - 700 pounds of Salmon - 2,100 litres of Heavy Cream
2,400 pounds of butter - 2,100 pounds of onions - 6,300 pounds of Romaine Lettuce
450 gallons of Ice Cream
That is allot of food!!
Thanks for reading my musings of our latest adventure. We are spending the balance of the winter at the Seasons In The Sun RV Resort near Mims, on the Space Coast of Florida.
This will be the last post for this winter.
Have a great winter!!
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