hello everyone my name is zach i am the traveling man and i am fresh off of an amazing week-long
cruise on board the celebrity edge i had such an amazing time but there are some things we need
to discuss about this cruise so in this video i'm going to review the celebrity edge and my cruise
experience on my seven-day cruise to the western caribbean i'll tell you all about the food the
itinerary what i thought about the ship and i'll even do some comparisons from the edge to the apex
since i have sold on both ships tell you a little bit about what's different on the apex above
what's on the edge and overall what i thought about the experience and at the end of this video
i'm going to be making a major announcement about a cruise that i'm going to be going on
very very soon and if you like celebrity cruises you're going to want to hear about this one so
let's get this full review of my celebrity edge cruise experience started all right right from the
top we're going to start talking about the ship itself the celebrity edge and if you've watched
any of the cruise vlog series that's out there so far that i've done on the edge you'll know that i
absolutely love the celebrity edge i love the celebrity apex for those of you who might not
have seen any of my videos yet maybe you're just watching this video for a comparison between the
edge and the apex or maybe just a review of the edge i will start off by saying that i fell in
love with celebrity cruises in september of 2021 when i sailed on celebrity apex back when she was
in her inaugural season over in greece she was actually selling from athens and i sell it on her
on a seven-day adventure to the greek islands and all those videos are here already on the channel
so make sure you go back and watch those to get my full review there's a full ship tour of the apex
love that ship that [ __ ] made me fall in love with celebrity cruises and i immediately came home
from that cruise and booked more celebrity cruises in the future including the one i just went on on
the edge so when i boarded the celebrity edge i already knew what to expect i knew that the
apex and edge are pretty much identical in most ways there are some differences that i'll cover
but i knew that the ship was gonna be incredible the ship itself the celebrity edge was going to
be like a work of art and folks that's exactly what i got from the moment i stepped on board
on that very first day until the moment i stepped off the ship on the last day
i was constantly wowed i was constantly feeling like i was at a luxury resort which is exactly
what the celebrity edge is it's beautiful in every way the ship itself cost i think somewhere between
1 billion and 1.5 billion dollars to build that's more than i think just about any cruise ship out
there even those mega of the sea ships that are the biggest in the world they might have cost
around about what the celebrity edge celebrity apex and the celebrity edge class cost but the
celebrity edge is nowhere near as big as those ships and that's because every square inch every
square centimeter of celebrity edge celebrity apex are designed in such a way to make you feel
just luxurious and just because it's high-end and luxurious feeling doesn't always mean that you're
paying just an outrageous price so the ship i feel was amazing i am in love with the celebrity edge
class of ships i think that they're beautiful i think that their layout and the flow of the
ships as you walk throughout them uh they have art all throughout the ship it's it's beautiful
i think the theater is great that they have it's sort of the wrap-around design that they
have in the theater and i think that's amazing i think that the staterooms are so well done the
infinite verandas i know a lot of folks have a lot of mixed reviews about those but personally
i love the infinite verandas one of my favorite places on the edge and i think this is where
celebrity has excelled because now you'll notice that a lot of the modern cruise ships that are
being built they all like to have some sort of a theater or some sort of special experience in the
back of the ship they all like to have that glass aft on their ships anthem and quantum class ships
on royal they have the i think it's called the 270 uh theater back there but on celebrity edge class
ships they actually have eden and i think eden is fantastic you go back there and it's just greenery
everywhere they have a really cool bar set up in there i like the live performances they have live
music all evening in eden so it's a nice place to just sit and relax of course uh one of the things
i discovered on celebrity edge is the eden cafe and i'll talk more about that in the food section
but everything that's contained in eden i think is so well done it's just so amazing to go back there
and you have that complete like 270 degree view of the ocean you can see the lake back behind you
day or night it's an amazing place to be and that's one of my favorite places
on the ship and i think it's what make celebrity edge such a work of art and so neat and so unique
i also love the outdoor section that they have there and just outside of eden they actually can
say it's for smokers and that is one of the few places that you can smoke on board celebrity edge
but i like to go out there while we were coming into porter as we were living port because you're
right there near the water and you can see all the operations that are happening on dock
in order to get the ship in and out safely so i can't really say much more about the
ship i love it so i give it an a-plus i don't think you could make a more perfect cruise ship
uh if you're really looking for something unique a work of art to sell something like
you never have before and you've never been on a celebrity edge class ship then make sure you sell
on the celebrity edge the celebrity apex soon the celebrity beyond and coming in 2023 the celebrity
ascent and you best believe you'll see all those at some point or another here on this channel
so much like the ship there's not much i can say about the service other than it's amazing from the
moment i stepped on board the ship the folks the crew that work on celebrity they were all greeting
me they were all saying hello they're all smiling they're all friendly i can contrast that and call
out some other experiences that i've had in the past year on other cruise lines and tell you how
that service was but we're not going to go there i'm just going to say that the service was
spectacular on celebrity edge from in the first 30 minutes because i remember i started out my first
day on board on that video i was just once i got to my room i was all smiles in that video talking
about how fantastic the crew was because everyone that i had interacted with that morning from the
moment i stepped inside of the terminal there in fort lauderdale to the moment i was on board and
in my state room everyone was fantastic i went to guest services first thing to see if i might
be able to get some sort of an upgrade just to see what they would say
and they actually were like it's going to be thousands of dollars but we actually
to be honest with you think you're in a better state room already because i was an aqua class
and they were telling me that the perks i had in aqua class outweighed what you would
get with a suite because the suites already pretty much full so i appreciated that honesty
and i appreciate the expediency of my experience overall at guest services that was my only time
i had to interact with them uh thankfully throughout the course of the cruise but
other than that the crew and the dining areas were always fantastic now i was in aqua class on this
cruise so i did have access to blue and in blue restaurant you actually can elect to have the same
servers no matter if you go in there for breakfast or for dinner so i had the same crew each time
and they were phenomenal they gave me just about the best service that i've ever had on a
cruise ship before and for that i'm very thankful every time i went in there was consistent service
they kept my water and my drinks filled at all times they brought my food out very quickly after
i'd ordered it it was always hot so i appreciated the staff in there as well so yeah a plus for the
crew and the service that i received on board celebrity it couldn't have been better i didn't
have a single bad experience with with service on board the ship everything was perfect and i
say that without sugar coating anything i'm not making any bad experience better i literally
cannot think of a single bad interaction or experience i had with any of the crew any of
the service on board now let's talk about the food this is something we need to talk about
because i did have a bad experience with food on the celebrity edge and i can't even say that with
a straight face it was only it wasn't even a bad experience i'd say bad like this because it was a
little bit different than the other experiences that i had had so far on the celebrity apex and
celebrity edge i did go to lunch on one of the sea days they had lunch in cosmopolitan
restaurant and that was the only food i've had so far 14 days so far onboard a celebrity cruise ship
and that day in the cosmopolitan restaurant was the only time i was like this isn't my favorite
that was the only time i felt like that you know and it wasn't that the food was bad it wasn't that
it tasted bad it wasn't cold it just was that it wasn't as good as the other food that i had on
board and that is my only bad experience with food so that's going to tell you how great the food
was now as i mentioned i did have access to this cruise to the blue restaurant blue is an exclusive
dining experience available only to those passengers that are selling in the aqua class and
i'm so glad that i was part of the aqua class this cruise not because i was able to go to the spa or
any of the other amenities that come with it but just for blue and in fact when i did my upgrade to
aqua class i had blue in mind i had heard a lot of good things about blue and i was like i have to go
there i have to try it so thankfully i was able to do just at this cruise and it did not disappoint
i went there many times for breakfast but just about every night of the cruise i think other than
two nights at the cruise i went there for dinner and it was fantastic the food was always hot
i mean hotter than i thought food could even be served the server would literally come to
the table every night with like a pot holder under my plate and be like this is extremely
hot and the food was always so hot you'd have to wait a minute for it to cool down that's not the
typical experience on a cruise ship normally you get your food and it's lukewarm or it feels like
it's been sitting out in the galley for a little bit before they brought it to your table but not
at blue y'all blue was fantastic so a solid a plus for blue i can't recommend you eating there enough
so enough about me going on about blue because i could talk about that all day let's talk about
some of the other food options i'll start with one of the more obvious and simpler options on
board and that's the ocean view cafe the ocean view cafe is simply the onboard lido restaurant
or the buffet the windjammer if you sell royal so this is where you can go for breakfast lunch
dinner and then they also have a late night option i think that's from 11 pm to 1 a.m and
get food off the buffet but all the food in there was always good it didn't taste like the typical
buffet food that you'd get on a lot of cruise lines would just be kind of lukewarm or cold
and not that flavorful or particularly good the food was always incredible every time i went to
the ocean view cafe one day i walked in there and it was just like full cakes in the bakery
like they had 15 different cakes and these looked great and it was like a special cake buffet that
they had that day speaking of cakes and baked goods one place i do have to specifically call
out for how great it was is on deck 4 they have the coffee shop right there in the main atrium
and they have a little selection in addition to our coffee of course they have a selection each
day of different pastries and baked goods and cakes and i could not stop myself from going
down there just about every day to get some of the macadamia nut cookies because y'all
if you like macadamia nut cookies you need to get on celebrity edge and eat one of those
because that was some good stuff i loved it they didn't have them every day and when they
didn't have those i would get a piece of cake or something and everything from there was fantastic
so i'm just here to tell y'all whether you get baked goods on the lido whether you get some
macadamia nut cookies at the coffee bar whether you're getting some dessert in the main dining
room or a dessert in blue you're gonna be very satisfied with what you get because they do food
right on celebrity i did mention that i did dine in eden and i thought eden was good but eden was
not as good this is my first comparison between the edge and apex because eden was not as good
on edge as it was on apex i was blown away by eden on apex when i ate there back in september
but this time was a different menu and they called it their old menu the chef actually came out she
said it was the old menu that actually debuted with eden and the celebrity edge back when they
came out in 2018 they do expect that this menu is going to be updated to the apex menu the apex menu
is the new eden menu and they will be updating the edge to that very soon they said over the
next couple of months i am glad i got to try it at least and it wasn't bad food it wasn't that
the food tasted terrible the food was still great i just didn't feel that the portions that you got
were as substantial as they were over on the apex now there were more courses offered on
eden than there were on apex but i just felt that the offerings were better on apex as well and i've
done a full review of eden and i'll talk all about that in the sea day vlog that i'm going to put out
from my celebrity edge adventure so make sure you watch that to get my full comprehensive
review of eden while it wasn't as good on the edge as it was on the apex it was still great
and it's still some of the best 55 you can spend on board a celebrity ed ship one of the absolute
gems of the dining experience on board celebrity edge actually came into eden with the eden cafe
and eakin cafe is only open for breakfast and lunch and it's only open for lunch on certain
days of the cruise i think on maybe sea days is the only day you're gonna get lunch but y'all
don't sleep on that place because i didn't see a lot of people back there but they have really
good offerings all the selections there great unfortunately i didn't discover eden cafe until
about the middle of the cruise and then when i wanted to go there for lunch i wasn't actually
able to until the very last day of the cruise which is our last sea day of the cruise and
i had the best sandwich i've ever had on a cruise ship and maybe anywhere it was like a prime rib
sandwich and it had these caramelized onions on it y'all it was delicious oh eating cafe that's
another eatery that's worth the cruise fair all in itself so i highly recommend if you go on a
ship that has eaten that you absolutely try out that eatery because it is a gem so considering
all those highs in my dining experience and that one low that one low in 14 days y'all i think i
would give food on celebrity edge overall a solid a rating the food was all good even when i had the
lunch experience where i didn't particularly care for it it wasn't terrible but i feel like
i ate some of the best food i've ever eaten in my life onboard that show oh one more thing on food i
will say inside the solarium they have a little cafe there it's like the spa cafe or something
y'all they make their own like little granola bars in there go in there and check that out i didn't
go in there but maybe once or twice but i always got some of that granola bar that they had it was
like homemade and it's delicious so next up is the itinerary and this itinerary the crews left from
fort lauderdale took me to nassau then we had a day at sea followed by costa maya roatan and then
cozumel before another sea day and then back in fort lauderdale now originally i think this
cruise was supposed to dock in key west instead of nassau and grand cayman instead of roatan and
i've still got to make grand cayman y'all i keep booking cruises to get there and either the stock
gets removed from the itinerary or we miss it due to weather or something but i promise i'll
make it there someday yeah tennery was great at first i was like oh great another cruise to
the western caribbean it's not my favorite but in the end i actually really enjoyed it i did
take advantage of some onboard credit i had and booked excursions and every port directly through
the cruise line with the exception of cosmo and i found those excursions to be great they made the
time import very fulfilling and i really enjoyed it so i think the itinerary was fantastic i also
feel like celebrity really loaded this cruise down with ports which was awesome i know when
you might go on other cruise lines they might just take you to costa maya cozumel and belize
or roatan and you don't get the extra stops so i'm glad celebrity at least put in the effort to give
us that extra stop at nassau when they could have just made it a day at sea and made more money but
celebrities about taking you to beautiful places and not just taking your money on a sea day so
they're cool to just add an extra port like that so i would give the itinerary on this cruise a
solid b and i'm going to be talking about every port we were in on a video so make sure you see
those videos including the costa maya video especially the costa maya video because i did
an excursion there it was one of my most favorite things i've done in the caribbean so far so make
sure you check that out now as promised i did want to give a comparison between the celebrity
edge and celebrity apex and i'll start by saying i didn't notice too many differences these ships
are pretty much identical i will tell you the one or two places where i did see a difference the
first being in the solarium on celebrity apex they actually have more hot tubs inside the solarium
than they do on celebrity edge and celebrity edge there's just one it's a pretty big hot tub
but when you're getting off the elevators and walking through the sliding glass doors into
the solarium the hot tub's kind of just right there but on celebrity apex there's actually
two and they're a little bit further back closer to the wall and the solarium on either side of
the pool the other difference that i noticed was there was a little bit less art on celebrity edge
than celebrity apex and one of the ways i noticed this was that on celebrity apex right outside the
ocean view cafe there's this big like stone face looking structure which was really cool
but they didn't have that on celebrity edge they actually had corn hole there instead i think
that's it i think those are the only two places where i noticed any difference other than that
it was like pretty much the same ship and i'm sure there's other places and let me know down
in the comments if you sell both of those ships let me know some of the differences in those
ships because i really couldn't identify many so they're pretty much interchangeable so i said that
to say if you sell it on the edge and you loved it you're gonna love the apex vice versa if you
saw on the apex you're gonna love the edge and if you've never been on either of them boy are you
missing out you need to get on there and book you one right now because the celebrity edge class is
the way to cruise it's my favorite so much show if you've watched my videos you've heard me say i'm
gonna be on the wonder of the seas uh in may over in europe well that's been canceled y'all because
i can't stop i'm addicted um i'm obsessed with celebrity cruises and the edge class ships
so i'm very excited to let you know in just a few months from now a couple months from now
i'm going to be heading over to europe as planned but i'm not going to be going on the water of the
seas i'm going to be going on the brand new celebrity beyond that's right i'm going to
be on one of the first few cruises of celebrity cruises brand new ship celebrity beyond she's
going to debut at the end of april this year and i'm going to be on one of her first cruises so
make sure you go down below and subscribe because i'm going to bring you a ship tour i'm going to
bring you all the content from onboard celebrity beyond i'm so excited about this ship like i said
the edge and the apex are very similar they're beyond supposed to be similar to that except
they're adding on to her so she's going to be a longer ship she's going to be a heavier ship she's
going to feature some more staterooms and i think also an expanded sunset bar on the back she's
gonna have more hot tubs i'm super pumped to see the ship i'm super pumped to be in europe again
so please make sure you subscribe and let me know down in the comments uh what do you want to see
what do you want me to show you what do you want me to feature here on the channel from celebrity
beyond because i want to show you guys what you want to know i want to answer all your questions
as best as i can so make sure you let me know down in the comments what you want me to feature
when i sell on one of those first few sailings of celebrity beyond so y'all that wraps it up
my entire cruise experience on celebrity edge a plus all across the board i absolutely loved it
the ship the crew the food the itinerary the aqua class everything was fantastic and it just
of course as you've seen it's evident i've already booked another cruise and have other cruises on
board celebrity this year that just shows you how much i love this celebrity experience thank you so
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