Roll Call Celebrity Summit Jan 10th 2003

[Shipstern]

We have 6 people in our group sailing on the Summit. This will be our first 10 Day Cruise. Looking forward to a lot of R&R and frozen thingees

Hope to see lots of our Cruise@ddict friends

 

[EMS8]

My wife and I will also be sailing the Summit on January 10, 2003. This will be our 3rd cruise on Celebrity and will be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary. Can't hardly wait!!! The countdown is on....

 

[andrea]

My hubby and I will be aboard with you as well! We did the 11-night itinerary on the Summit last January. We enjoyed it so much we booked the 10-night itinerary for this January!

 

[Shipstern]

This is great..... our group is growing. This is our first cruise over 7 days in length and out first cruise with a balcony!!!!!!! What a rush!!!!

EMS8, congrats on the 30th anniversary. My wife and I will be celebrating our 35th on June 29th 2003. We will be sailing to Bermuda on the Zenith for that.

Andrea, we also had the 11 day cruise booked last year but changed to a 7 day because of the gr8 prices. That Alaska cruise your doing also sounds like fun. My wife and I really want to do that cruise sometime soon.

Well, as we get closer to the cruise we will have to make arrangements to meet up. Should be lots of fun and a GREAT cruise. Hope we have a lot of our cruise@ddicts friends coming with us.

 

[andrea]

If you want to meet a bunch of @ddicts, plan on getting to FLL a day or two early. The CH@OS cruise that a bunch of @ddicts are going on sails on January 9th out of FLL. I know a lot of folks are coming down on January 8th and will probably have a party at the Amerisuites on 17th Street that evening. Unfortunately, we will still be cruising on the 19th when their cruise disembarks, because I know they are having a really big shin-dig at CruzNut's home that night.

Regardless, hope to meet you on board! Be sure to add your cruise to the Cruise Tracker. As you can see from looking at the Cruise Tracker, there are a couple of other folks signed up for this cruise also.

So far on this cruise in my group is myself and my hubby and his mother and grandmother.

If either of you have any questions about the Summit, let me know and I'll try to answer anything I can since I sailed on her last January.

 

[EMS8]

It would be great to get together and meet other cruise @addicts. Maybe toast a glass of champagne and wish everyone an enjoyable cruise? My wife and I will be arriving in Ft Lauderdale a day early also.

Andrea, how did you like the Summit? Any tips or words of wisdom?

 

[andrea]

EMS8,
It would be great if you will be in FLL on January 8th because then you can meet ALL the @ddicts that will be in town for CH@OS! I don't really have any tips (other than be sure to try the Normandie specialty restaurant at least once because it is WONDERFUL). However, if you want to read my review of my Summit cruise from last January, Click Here.

 

[EMS8]

Andrea, nice review of your cruise on the Summit. We'll only be able to arrive in FLL on the 9th due to work commitments. We already have a reservation confirmed for the Normandie and are really looking forward to the experience.

 

[Lisa]

EMS8 - all I can say is I hope enjoy the Summit as much as I did....she is a beautiful ship! And I agree with Andrea - you will really enjoy the Normandie! Great food nad great service.

 

[EMS8]

Thanks Lisa. I think all of Celebrity ships are beautiful. We've sailed on Galaxy twice and are really looking forward to the Summit and the Normandie!

The countdown is on.....

 

[Shipstern]

My wife and I are undecided about going down a day early on the 9th as well. Haven't made up our minds yet. Last year we got a great rate at the Marriot Pier Sixty Six. This year the rates are still very high. Hoping they will come down.

In 2001 we sailed on the Millie (sister ship of Summit) in 2001. We ate at the Olympic reasturant. It was very good but we felt not worth the extra $. The service was excellant however. Sounds like you really enjoyed it Andrea so maybe we should try the Normandie. Anyway to hear all this talk about the cruise I'm getting all excited about. Can't wait.

 

[andrea]

The Hyatt Pier Sixty Six is a great hotel. We stayed there last year. Wonderful views! This year we're going to try the Marriott Harbor Beach. It's a bit pricey, but I figure we're on vacation, so why not treat ourselves? :grin

 

[Carolyn G]

Hi

We are two couples from Massachusetts joining you all on the Summit this January. This will be our 8th on Celebrity--our favorite cruiseline! We did the exact same cruise last January and liked it so much we are repeating it this year. I'm glad I found this thread. It's been months since I was here and just thought I'd pop in to see what was happening. Looking forward to getting together with all of you in January.

Carolyn

 

[andrea]

Great to meet you, Carolyn! I'm glad you enjoyed the cruise so much, you're doing it twice! That reinforces what I already know: that this will be a great cruise!

 

[EMS8]

Glad you've joined us Carolyn. Only 134 days and counting! Coooool Caribbean breezes and nice warm sun. Celebrity, here we come.......

 

[brigitte]

hi, what a nice site. we are booked on the 10th also. we took the same cruise last year and had a wonderful time. we were married on megans bay in 1999 and do an anniversary cruise every jan. and always go back to megans bay with a bottle of champagne. (acually we have been doing the megans bay thing for the last 7 years and deceided that is where we wanted to be married).

thank you for the fun reading. hope to meet you on board. bye, brigitte

 

[Shipstern]

Welcome to our group briqitte, yeah this sure is a GREAT site. Lots of very very nice people here. Congrats on the Island marriage. How romantic going back to Megans Bay each year. Never been there but just looked it up on the internet Wow what a great looking beach. St Thomas is quite a paradise.

Well looking forward to meeting you. Can't wait for the cruise !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, don't forget to put yourself and your hubby on the "Cruise Tracker"

 

[andrea]

Glad to know you'll be aboard, briqitte! It's fun to see the names of folks adding up who are going on this cruise!

 

[brigitte]

thank you for the welcome. andrea, i read you review way back and really enjoyed it.

shipstern, i hope megans bay is on your intinerary. if you liked the pictures, you will be amazed at reality. there are talks of being overcrowed. when you arrive, just walk down the carpath for about 5 minutes then walk 20ft to the beach. very few people.

ems8 was nice enough to recommend this site.

carolyn g. were you on the jan. 4 cruise last year? we booked aft cabin 7203 at our ta's advice and the veranda was amazing. maybe not a good thing. it was our first veranda and we got spoiled.

happy cruising. brigitte

 

[Carolyn G]

Thanks for the warm welcome. We've had some nice experiences meeting people on these message boards on the cruises. It's always nice to keep in touch after the cruise.

Andrea I have read your review of the Summit--you were on that cruise with Sandie. I loved her website--we cruised with Sandie the previous year on the Infinity to Hawaii. She did a great job keeping us informed as our cruise approached.

Briqitte--yes we were on the Jan. 4 cruise . Each year we take a cruise just after the first of the year. Sort of a wind down after the holidays. If I remember correctly we had smooth sailing for 10 days.

We are heading off to a cruise on the Voyager on Sept. 15. We've never cruised at this time of the year and probably never will again! I'm sort of worried about it being hurricane season!

Looking forward to January.

Carolyn