We are home tired and full of cold but thoroughly enjoyed the whole holiday.
All the elements which we put together and booked separately came together without a hitch. Starting with afternoon tea at Luton Hoo (which Mark had arranged) to Mark meeting us at Luton airport at the end of the cruise.
We walked a lot again this holiday averaging 13,000 steps per day, including the two days at sea, with a peak of 18,000 on the day we climbed to the top of the old town in Ibiza. So cruising is not just sitting around the pool eating all day!
We had been to the majority of the destinations before on other holidays but Ravenna in Italy, Sicily and Kotor in Montenegro were new. Ravenna was more interesting than expected with its mosaics and Catania was disappointing because of the wet weather. Kotor is a spectacular cruise destination which will undoubtedly get as busy as Dubrovnik. It has the scenery, the history and low prices, so glad we went when we did.
The Constellation was OK and our cabin was outstanding for the amount of space we had, but then it was a family cabin. The balcony was huge and in other ships the position on the aft corner is usually a suite. It was much better than the nearby Concierge class cabins expect for the fluffy dressing gowns! Constellation had fewer speciality dining options of the bigger ships in Celebrity fleet. The Sushi on Five was usually empty and a waste of space in our opinion. All cruise lines are introducing cost reductions like salad course dropped from main restaurant dinner and no free shuttle busses at the ports (unless provided by port for safety reasons). Joseph our cabin steward now works on his own instead of in pairs, which makes it a very lonely job.
Formal dining is almost a thing of the past now, although there were a few with DJ's on "chic" night. I need not have taken a jacket at all in fact!
There were a lot of Canadians on board whom we always mistook for Americans, few Asians and not many other Europeans.
Great itinerary, everyone we met agreed, with many from US/Canada doing back to back cruise from Barcelona to Rome.
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