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Celebrity Cruises' New Solstice Class Ships Break The Mold
Celebrity Cruises new "Solstice Class" cruise ships - Celebrity Solstice, Celebrity Equinox, Celebrity Eclipse, Celebrity Silhouette (coming 2011), and a fifth ship coming 2012 - have proven an immense success.
Celebrity Solstice breaks the mold in every conceivable way. Measuring 122,000 gross tons (remember, ships measure, not weigh - a gross ton is a unit of interior space), Solstice is Celebrity Cruises' largest ship by far. Carrying 2,850 cruise vacationers when fully occupied, she's a big hunk of hull for a cruise company whose ships have hovered right around the 2,000-passenger capacity.
Solstice wears her excess steel well, and what strikes you - or what struck me - was that while the renderings, photographs, press releases and press events had prepared me for what to expect, seeing Solstice in real life presented an even better ship than I had expected. Sometimes cruise lines go hoarse with hyperbole in promoting their products, but Solstice actually exceeded what I had expected.