Cruise Critic reports that a unspecified propulsion problem is slowing the Celebrity Silhouette down, causing it to shorten time spent in certain port of calls.
Celebrity does not specify the nature of the problem or indicate when the problem will be fixed.
A Celebrity Cruises spokeswoman provides this gobbledygook explanation: the “slight restriction” on the
Over the weekend, we received word from a cruise passenger aboard a Celebrity cruise ship, the Reflection, that the ship was forced to stay overnight in Civitavecchia (Rome) due to unspecified mechanical problems.
The cruise line reportedly refused to disclose the nature of the problem to passengers on the ship.
The Reflection was delayed
This morning we were contacted by passengers aboard Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas indicating that two dockworkers were killed when the cruise ship was leaving the port.
The passengers described the incident as occurring when the two dockworkers were in a small vessel trying to remove the last mooring lines. The Independence of the
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Cruise Fever reports that a Celebrity cruise ship lost power yesterday morning for about one and one-half hours while the ship was at port in Key West.
Cruise Fever says that the Celebrity Constellation lost power Sunday morning from approximately 7:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. A writer for Cruise Fever was aboard and first reported
Numerous news sources are reporting that a Celebrity Cruises’ crew member went overboard from a cruise ship sailing off of the coast of Mexico.
Crew member Inyoman Bagiada, age 45, reportedly disappeared from the Celebrity Constellation at around 2:30 AM today, according to a press release by the U.S. Coast Guard. He was employed on
Cruise expert Professor Ross Klein’s web site indicates that the Constellation cruise ship was forced to spend an extra day in Key West.
Professor Klein reported yesterday about a passenger’s complaint that the "Constellation scheduled to leave Key West yesterday, Dec. 15 @ 5pm. Repair needed and waiting on part(s). At 8:05am, December 16, still
A Cruise Law News reader from Australia alerted me of a newspaper article published on Thursday discussing how Miami-based Celebrity sent an elderly couple packing from the Millennium cruise ship a month ago.
The Cairns Post reports on the disturbing story of Celebrity kicking 78 year old cruise passenger Adry Arnold and her husband off
Last week we published an article which featured a comment by a passenger aboard the noro-infected Celebrity Summit cruise ship.
A number of people commented or contacted our office about the comment, both pro and con.
We rarely handle norovirus cases, but the discussion around the subject, we think, is still important. How the cruise
We received information that the Celebrity Constellation has been hit with a norovirus outbreak during the September 25, 2013 to October 7, 2013 cruise.
A passenger informed us:
Just off the Celebrity Constellation Black Sea cruise Sept. 25th – Oct. 7th. Over 300 sick with Norovirus etc . . . Crew did their best but
From time to time, we will feature a reader’s comments to one of our articles. The motto of our blog is "everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know," so we like to offer our readers a peek inside what really happens during cruises.
Here are the comments from a passenger who was aboard
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Cruise expert Professor Ross Klein reports that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that 307 of 2112 passengers (14.5%) and 14 of 952 crew (1.5%) aboard the Celebrity Summit have reported sick with "gastrointestinal illness."
You can read about the outbreak on the CDC website here.
There is no indication whether the illness is
A blog discussing Goa India, and Miami’s Daily Business Review, are reporting on a significant verdict that was recently reached against Miami-based Celebrity Cruises.
The jury verdict involves a Celebrity crew member, Vincente Fernandes, from Goa, India. Back in September 2009, Mr. Fernandes was an assistant stateroom attendant on a Celebrity cruise ship. He
A newspaper in Alaska is reporting that the Celebrity Millennium cruise ship, which was suppose to have sailed on Friday from Seward, will be stuck in port until at least Tuesday due to engine problems.
The cruise ship arrived four hours late to Seward on Friday after experiencing an electrical problem with one of the
A British cruise passenger from the Celebrity Reflection was robbed ashore on July 28th while the ship was docked in Naples
An Italian newspaper Il Mattino reports that the robbery was committed by two brothers who targeted the British cruise ship passenger. The unidentified passenger was wearing a Rolex watch, worth around 12,000 euros, while
KTOO in Alaska reports on what is being described as an alleged sexual assault by a thirty year old man against a 12 year old girl on a cruise ship operated by Celebrity Cruises.
KTOO states that a "30-year-old Japanese man allegedly groped a Canadian girl near the pool of a Celebrity cruise ship on
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A newspaper in the U.K. reports that dozens of passengers were struck down by a "vomiting bug" on board a cruise ship which docked in Southampton yesterday.
The Celebrity Eclipse returned from a two week Mediterranean cruise which departed on May 11th.
77 passengers and five crew members – 1.8 per cent of those on
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the Celebrity Millennium cruise ship sailed to Seward, Alaska last Friday, May 10th, with an elevated number of passengers and crew with a gastrointestinal illness. 164 of its 1,963 passengers and 30 of its 935 crew members experienced the gastro-illness.
The CDC states that the “causative
The Broward County Sheriffs Office has posted a mug shot of a 27 year old Celebrity Cruises crew member arrested over the weekend on two counts of charges of grand theft (over $300 and less than $5,000).
According to the Sun Sentinel newspaper, HuanHuan Shen was arrested when the Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship returned to
