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CELEBRITY CRUISES 2009-2010 SEASON
Due to customer demand, Celebrity Cruises has added many
new itineraries with new ports such as Guadeloupe, St Croix
and Tobago.
Celebrity Cruises is giving Caribbean cruise enthusiasts
something to celebrate in late 2009 and early 2010. For the first
time in five years, Celebrity will offer a range of Caribbean
itineraries lasting a week or longer on five of its ships: Celebrity
Constellation, Celebrity Equinox, Celebrity Mercury, Celebrity
Solstice, and Celebrity Summit. Together, the ships will call at
26 different ports during sailings ranging from seven to 14
nights, departing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Celebrity’s 2009-10 seasonal Caribbean season will feature
calls on new ports, the deployment of two of the line’s new
Solstice class of ships to the region, and the reintroduction of a
14-night itinerary length. Highlights will include the following:
Celebrity will introduce three new ports to its Caribbean line-up,
including Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe; St. Croix, U.S. Virgin
Islands; and Scarborough, Tobago.
CELEBRITY SOLSTICE
Celebrity Solstice, launching in December 2008, will sail seven-
night Eastern Caribbean cruises roundtrip out of Fort
Lauderdale. These will alternate between two itineraries, one
featuring calls at San Juan; Basseterre, St. Kitts; and
Philipsburg, St. Maarten, and the other featuring stops at San
Juan; Philipsburg; Tortola, British Virgin Islands; and Labadee,
Haiti.
CELEBRITY EQUINOX
Celebrity Equinox will sail 10- and 11-night “Ultimate Caribbean”
cruises roundtrip out of Fort Lauderdale, featuring stops at
ports such as St. Thomas; St. Kitts; Barbados; Dominica; St.
Maarten; Grand Cayman; Colombia; Costa Rica; and Mexico.
The 11-night itinerary includes a stop at Roatan, Honduras,
which Celebrity has not visited since 2007.
CELEBRITY CONSTELLATION
Celebrity Constellation will sail Celebrity’s first 14-night
Caribbean season itineraries since 2005, offering several 14-
night “Exotic Southern Caribbean” sailings roundtrip out of
Miami, featuring calls in St. Thomas, Antigua, St. Lucia,
Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, Aruba, and Curacao.
CELEBRITY MERCURY
Celebrity Mercury will sail a series of 10-, and 11-night
Southern Caribbean cruises out of San Juan. Celebrity Mercury
will also sail one 15-night holiday cruise during this series, and
one nine-night cruise in early 2010.
CELEBRITY SUMMIT
From mid-December 2009 through mid-April 2010, Celebrity
Summit will sail seven-night roundtrip voyages out of San Juan;
this pattern includes the addition of the port of Scarborough to
Celebrity’s line-up as well as the addition of a call at
Bridgetown, Barbados.
NEW SHORE EXCURSIONS
Celebrity will offer guests a variety of shore and land
experiences in each port of call visited during its 2009-10
Caribbean season. Examples include:
“Mi Dushi” in Aruba, which lets guests board "Mi Dushi" for a
day of sailing and snorkeling and an island lunch.
“St. Maarten Art Tour,” which lets guests experience the island’s
art scene through tours of studios, galleries, and even homes
of local artists.
“Swim with Turtles, Shipwrecks, Snorkel and Beach” in
Barbados, during which guests encounter native sea life, learn
more about abandoned ships and experience the pleasures of
snorkeling.
“St. Thomas Ocean Racing Challenge,” where guests have the
opportunity to “be” part of the racing teams aboard the On
Deck's Farr 65 Ocean Racing Around the World yachts.
Celebrity Cruises also recently announced its 2009-10 offerings
of four- and five-night cruises to the Caribbean. To learn more
about all of Celebrity’s 2009-2010 Caribbean sailings, guests
are encouraged to visit www.celebritycruises.com. To learn
more about Celebrity’s new Solstice class, guests can tour www.
celebritysolstice.com.
Celebrity Cruises offers comfortably sophisticated, upscale
cruise experiences with highly personalized service, exceptional
dining, and extraordinary attention to detail. Celebrity sails in
Alaska, Australia/New Zealand, California, Canada/New
England, the Caribbean, Europe, Galapagos Islands, Hawaii,
the Pacific Coast, Panama Canal and South America. The line
also offers unique cruisetour vacations in Alaska, Australia,
Canada, Europe and South America. Noted for "The Top Cruise
Ships in the World," as voted by the readers of Conde' Nast
Traveler (February 2008 readers’ poll), Celebrity's current fleet
will be joined by Celebrity Solstice in 2008, Celebrity Equinox in
2009, Celebrity Eclipse in 2010, and a fourth Solstice-class ship
in 2011. For more information, call your travel agent, dial 1-800-
437-3111 or visit www.celebritycruises.com.