I recently cruised on one of the oldest ships in the Celebrity Cruises Fleet and
now I'm here to tell you all about my cruise experience on board the celebrity Summit
hi my name is Zach I Am The Traveling Man and in this video I'm going to give you my honest
review of everything about the celebrity summit we're going to talk about the food we're going
to talk about the ship we're going to talk about the service if you've ever watched any
of my videos in the past you know that I'm a big fan of Celebrity Cruises I say it's my favorite
Cruise Line particularly I'm a big fan of their celebrity Edge series of ships that's a celebrity
Edge the Apex the Beyond and soon the ascent so taking a cruise on the third oldest ship a ship
that debuted all the way back in 2001. it was a big step for me in addition to all the Edge class
ships I'd also been on the Celebrity Equinox which is part of their Solstice series of ships so this
was my first time selling on one of the m-class ships as folks call these or the Millennium class
and this is the oldest they're the smallest ships like I say it's a ship that's 22 years old so I
went into it with a lot of excitement actually I was really excited to see what celebrity had
done with this ship I knew that back in 2019 celebrity we had completely overhauled this
ship they revolutionized it as they say they had completely gutted parts of the ship and refinished
it and redid a lot of the rooms a lot of the state rooms and you're going to see my stateroom and how
amazing it was and what a great job celebrity did I'll just say up front here at revolutionizing the
celebrity Summit so typically on my channel I'll do a cruise review separate from a dining review
and two different videos however this was only a four-day Cruise so you're going to get it all in
this video I'm going to talk about the ship and I'm also going to talk about the food but how I
critique the ship usually I usually go by my steps review and there's five steps of course
the first one being the ship we'll talk all about the ship the second is taste so that's where all
the food I had on this trip is going to fall the third is the entertainment and there was a lot
of entertainment on board this ship the P is for ports and then the fifth is a service and that's
one where we're gonna need to have a discussion uh a very honest discussion about the service on
the celebrity Summit but let's Jump Right In with that s for ship and the celebrity Summit
despite being 22 years old is a beautiful ship like I said celebrity did a fantastic job back
in 2019 when they revolutionized this ship they made it more modern and if you've already watched
some of the Vlogs I put out here on the channel you have heard me say over and over this is a
cruise ship a small cruise ship like they're not building anymore but if they build a small cruise
ship in 2022 this is what it would look like the modern aesthetic that they've added to that ship
I also said many times in my videos how much the celebrity Summit and it's revolutionized
look reminded me of a celebrity Edge series ship I was just blown away in a lot of the lounges and
a lot of the dot well in the dining room there's only one dining room and the stateroom certainly
they all had that modern Elegance they all had a special touch to them and it didn't feel like
the ship was 21 22 years old it actually felt like a modern cruise ship like they had built
the celebrity Summit in the past few years now there are a couple exceptions to that of course
uh there's a lot of old wood paneling around the ship uh so you did turn a corner sometimes and
you'd notice this old wood paneling and it would make you feel like oh yeah this trip was built in
the early 2000s but for the most part celebrity has done their absolute best and have succeeded
at making the celebrity Summit and a lot of their older ships too I know have been revolutionized
and are gone the same treatment but they've done their best to make these older cruise ships still
have the same Vibe as a lot of their newer cruise ships in addition to that wood paneling in other
ways that the ship showed its age was with some of the elevators on board particularly those
glass elevators they're nice to look at and it's nice to think about a glass elevator going right
up and down uh it was over on the port side of the ship right next to the sea that was awesome
but the appearance of those it was clear that they were really old they were over 20 years old
and I know that those things can't be completely revolutionized like the rest of the ship but uh
those are just some ways that you notice that the ship is is older than what other parts of
the ship might make you believe I think probably the best summation of this ship that I could give
is it's like a solstice Clash ship if you like the solstice class ships you're gonna like the
Millennium class ships because as I walked around celebrity Summit I was constantly reminded of my
time on Celebrity Equinox it's laid out very similar a lot of the locations are pretty much
the same and if you want to see some of that stuff make sure you go back and check out my ship tour
video that I did of celebrity Summit and you'll see how beautiful it is but you'll also see all
those locations but it's like a smaller scaled down version of of Celebrity Solstice class ship
also to mention about the ship is my stateroom and I actually upgraded my stateroom I was originally
supposed to be on an inside and I'll actually show you some clips here of that inside State
room because I did go to it and check it out but I was actually able to upgrade for only 150 dollars
for the entire four-day cruise I upgraded to a veranda State room and I'll put footage of that
here but both beautiful staterooms both have been revolutionized both have been upgraded
back in 2019 the bathroom inside my stateroom was fantastic so I really enjoyed that and really
thought it was beautiful I did notice that my deck chair however had a little bit of wear and tear at
the pillow on it was broken I also noticed a lot of wear and tear up on the rooftop Terrace they
had some Cabanas sat around and a lot of those were really just worse for wear I mean they were
just worn out they needed to be replaced and I was actually kind of surprised to see that
on a celebrity cruise ship because normally all their stuff is top-notch and well updated but not
so for some of the outdoor furniture on board the celebrity Summit one of the areas that I did have
some issues with was the internet I always put the internet under the ship because it is part of the
ship's infrastructure I always say uh the internet wasn't great on this ship there were times when
the internet wasn't working at all and I had the premium supposed to be the fastest internet
on the ship and I realized there were a lot of people on this cruise but I think when you're
paying premium prices you should expect some type of Premium speeds right you should expect
internet to be reliable and this is especially true in today's age when a lot of folks are
working from home but I know a lot of people they have that flexibility they work from home
they can you know work from vacation sometimes too so sometimes you might need to take work
with you and work on a cruise ship so just know that it was slow now I do know that celebrity
is currently upgrading uh all the internet on all their ships to starlink which is going to be much
faster much more reliable internet I cruised in November 2022 so anything I say you know from the
time of November 2022 to the time you're watching this video that could have changed they could have
Starling now uh but when I saw that the internet wasn't great so for all those Reasons I'm going
to give the ship a 3.5 rating out of a five the T is for Taste we're going to talk all about the
food first of all I'll say Celebrity Cruises has the best food at Sea on all their shifts I've been
on now I think this was my sixth Celebrity Cruise and all those cruises all the food on all of those
cruises has been better than any of the food I've had on any of my other other you know 19 or 20
cruises that weren't with celebrities so Celebrity Cruises no matter what ship you sell you're going
to find fantastic food I'll start with the Ocean View cafe I was really Blown Away by the ocean
view Cafe on Celebrity Summit not only does it have a very modern aesthetic and not only is it
very reminiscent of the Ocean View cafe on those Edge series of ships but I just like the layout
of it because it's sort of disjointed a little bit because you don't have just a common middle
place with all the buffets set up you know if you sell some of the newer ships I think even on the
solstice class ships all of the buffet stations are just sat in the middle of the ocean view Cafe
and it's just a swarm of people moving around you're always bumping into someone or at least
that's been my experience however on the summit all of the stations inside of Ocean View cafe were
at different locations so it's sort of like in the round Ocean View cafe is and all around Ocean View
cafe you have the various stations where you could get you know pizzas at one station and
salad was at another and they're all removed from one another and although there were quite a few
people on the ship I was never bumping into people or felt like it was awkward or weird in there so
I really wanted to mention that and say that I enjoyed not only the look of Ocean View cafe but
also the layout of Ocean View cafe I also enjoyed the food every meal I had in there every time I
went there for breakfast or for lunch a lot of times I'd leave the main dining room and go there
for dessert because they had really good dessert offerings inside Ocean View cafe so really enjoyed
Ocean View cafe and all the food that I had there not only did I dine several times at Ocean View
cafe but three knots of the cruise I dined in the main dining room and I will say that the service
in the main dining room was exceptional every night even on elegant evening the second night
of the cruise when everyone is in the main dining room feels like I never waited more than just a
few minutes for my food and I think I was never in the dining room for more than 45 minutes any
night I mean it was very quick in and out service and all the food was good too I'm just gonna put
some clips in here while I talk about the main dining room with the various food items that I
had but everything was delicious I can't think of anything bad that I had you'll see there too
that I was able to have two lobster tails and I mentioned that because I know that celebrity has
now changed uh the rules you can still get two but you're going to be charged for that second
one I think they're imposing like a 1695 plus 18 gratuity charge for extra lobster tails now but
when I was on Celebrity Summit it was absolutely free so of course I indulged I always enjoy
Lobster night but all the food was great but even better than the food inside of Cosmopolitan that's
the main dining room there was this service the service was Top Notch and I really enjoyed it I
also took advantage of a couple of specialty dining opportunities on board the celebrity
Summit the first of which was Tuscan Grille and I was so excited to eat at Tustin Grill I had
previously eaten their onboard Celebrity Solstice couldn't wait to go back on Celebrity Summit and
I will say right up top wasn't as impressed this time with the food the service in there was great
but the food left a little something to be desired and I'll just sort of walk through each of the
things that I had and tell you a little little bit about them so I started with the meatballs
and the meatballs are always good in Tuscan Grille and these on Celebrity Summit were no exception my
second appetizer that I got was the crab cake you know if you watch my videos I love me a good crab
cake and I'm always ordering them when I go on a cruise this one was just okay though it wasn't uh
anything great it seemed more like a main dining room appetizer to be honest with you it wasn't
like a crab cake you would expect at a specialty dining restaurant that was also my complaint of
the Caesar salad which I also got this was more like the Caesar that you get in the main dining
room and I feel like if you're paying that extra money to go to a specialty dining venue every
course of that meal should taste like it came from a specialty dining venue I don't care if
it's just the salad or just the appetizer I'm paying extra money I'm paying 60 extra dollars
to come to Tuscan Grill it should be above and beyond what I'm able to get included in my cruise
Fair back in the main dining room so that was my big complaint was that these two courses tasted
like food you would get from the main dining room room next up I had the lobster ravioli and that
was the reason I went because I'll absolutely love that dish I just got a little side portion you see
it's a smaller portion you can ask when you go to Tustin grill for a smaller portion of some of the
pasta if you just want to try alongside your main speaking of Maine I had the filet mignon
and it was pretty good and with that I had some sides I had some broccoli I had some potatoes
and those were pretty good as well and finally for the dessert I have the strawberry cake and
that was good that actually redeemed the meal a little bit for me because that was like okay we're
getting back into specialty dining quality now however overall those other courses kind of lost
me because my overall review of the Tussin Grill on Celebrity Summit was that it didn't taste like
a specialty dining venue it tasted more like the main dining room food and I think again if you're
paying sixty dollars to go to a specialty dining venue you should feel like you're eating sixty
dollars worth of food and I felt like I could get all these things off the main dining room menu so
um yeah I would not go back to Tuscan Grille on Celebrity Summit if I were selling it today I
wouldn't go out of my way to make reservations to eat there just because if they experience
uh yeah I it wasn't for me I'll say that the other specialty dining opportunity that I took was going
to Sushi on five sushi on five of course as the name suggests this is sushi restaurant that they
have on board the ship there and always incredible now sushi on 5 is a little bit different than
Tuscan Grille being a specialty restaurant whereas Tuscan Grille is more of a flat rate you pay sixty
dollars and pick off the menu uh if you want to go for dining at sushi on five you're basically
going to pay per entree that you get or per item that you get so if you get an appetizer you pay
for that if you get an entree you pay whatever the price is for that and all the prices are listed
specifically inside the menu I enjoyed the scallop and shrimp dynamod and y'all that was Dynamite as
the name suggests this was really good it was a baked Hot Pot it had spicy honey on it that
was probably the highlight of my meal at sushi on five and I'll absolutely be returning on my next
Celebrity Cruise as soon xiaom 5 to make sure that I eat it again I also enjoyed a shrimp tempura
row that was also very delicious fantastic dining experience all around at sushi on 5. the service
was great the food was incredible I ate there while we were imported Cozumel so it was nice
to just sit and have a great view of Cozumel out the window while I enjoyed a fantastic meal those
are the only two items that I had at sushi on five and just to let you know to be fully transparent
that cost me 27 after gratuity and everything was added so not bad it's not the 60 dollars that you
would pay to go to like Tuscan Grill and that's one of the cool things about the a la carte sort
of experience that they have at sushi on five you don't have to pay as much up front to eat there
especially if you're just someone who doesn't need a lot of food and maybe you just want to
get one sushi roll or something you're not paying a tremendous price uh for a food that you're not
even gonna eat another dining experience that I had that I was blown away with on board the ship
was room service I ordered room service two times throughout the course of this Cruise one of which
was for breakfast and that was not only delicious but it was super fast from the time that I ordered
my breakfast to the time it was delivered to my stateroom was only 15 minutes that's super fast
also on the very last night of the cruise got some room service just to try it out and y'all
that was some of the best food I had the entire cruise I was blown away the mushroom soup that
they delivered was some of the best soup that I've ever had on a cruise and I've had soup
and Specialty dining venues it was so good they gave me a substantial Caesar salad it was huge I
couldn't believe how big it was I thought being delivered from room service would be just a tiny
little salad but it was above and beyond what I expected and then I love the room service burger
that was not the first time I'd had it before I tried it on some other ships before but it was
so good I finished off the meal with the chocolate ganache cake and that was super moist it was super
delicious and I still can't believe how good that room service dinner was so don't skip on the room
service don't discount it if you're hungry for lunch or dinner you know try out the room service
and see because they actually do have really good food on a previous cruise with celebrity I'd
actually tried the salmon uh I tried the chicken skewer and those are delicious as well so really
good options available from room service and room service was Top Notch on Celebrity Summit so
overall for food I'm going to give it a solid four out of five rating next up was e for entertainment
and there was a lot of entertainment to be found around the ship in addition to the music that
they had and the lounges the beautiful lounges on board particularly the Rendezvous Lounge which has
a little dance club there in the middle of it the head music in there live music every evening but
specifically the theater they had shows in the theater each night and celebrity always does a
fantastic job with their theater production shows across all the ships in their Fleet the first
night we had a comedian and he was funny and well enjoyed the second night of the cruise was a Stage
production show called life and life was amazing life was good on board the celebrity Summit you
could say it was live music it was dancing and all of the cast did a tremendous job and I was
just blown away one of the best shows I've seen on celebrities certainly and like I said I've been
on on all the edge series class of ships where you think they're going to have the best shows and the
best production and then the fourth night of the cruise are back for another Stage production show
called soundtrack which featured well soundtracks from movies and that was really good as well again
the cast in this show was tremendous great singing uh great stunts that they were doing in this show
too I was actually surprised at some of the stuff so for entertainment on board the celebrity Summit
I'm giving it a four out of a five rating next up is the p and p of course is for ports and there's
not a lot to talk about here because it was only a four day cruise so only one port so we left Miami
we had one sea day and then we stopped in Cozumel for a full day in Port and I had been to Cozumel
many times before so I took advantage of the day in Port to do my ship tour so if you've not seen
my ship tour from celebrity Summit make sure you go back and watch that I'll put a link down below
or an info card up here so that you can click into that video and see my ship tour of celebrity
Summit the Cozumel is always a great place to go there's a lot of activities to do there there's
a lot of the the all-inclusive resorts you can go to and then after we left Cozumel the next day we
had a sea day on our way back to Miami so a short Cruise a nice little getaway Cruise it was nice to
have the two sea days to really explore the ship really get to know the ship so for the ports you
know it was just Cosmo it was nothing special but it was still okay I'm gonna give it a 3.5 out of
a 5 rating and the last up is s for service and the service wasn't quite what I expected
from Celebrity Cruises normally I'm giving a five out of a five and that's not happening this time
overall in most places on the ship including the dining room as I mentioned in the specialty dining
restaurants most of the people I interacted with were fantastic however I did have an instance or
two where I did have interactions with rude staff it was just me asking for something or needing
something and just the response you know just to look sometime on people's faces and just the
way that they treat you as the customer it wasn't really what I expected from Celebrity Cruises and
not going to go into specifics there were just a couple of instances where the service the standard
of service on Celebrity Summit wasn't up to the standard of service on Celebrity Cruises as a
whole it wasn't what I was used to so I think there's some work to be done with the crew and
the service there on the celebrity Summit so for those Reasons I'm only going to give the service
a four out of five only it's still a good review because by and large 85 percent of my interactions
and the service I received on Celebrity Summit was top-notch exceptional Service as you would
expect on Celebrity Cruises so averaging all those scores together that gives my total rating
of my cruise experience on board the celebrity Summit a 3.8 out of a five it was a great Cruise
again love the renovations to celebrity Summit that there was some concerns with the service
there was some concerns with some of the food that I had on board there but overall it was a
fantastic cruise and I was so glad I was able to try out this smaller Celebrity cruise ship
and I'm actually going to be trying out more of celeb already smaller ships in fact I'm going
to be sailing on Celebrity Millennium very soon and I'm excited about that the oldest ship and
the fleet so uh make sure you subscribe and come back to see that later this year I'm very excited
for that cruise thank you so much for watching this Cruiser view of the celebrity Summit I hope
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