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Broadcasting from the Solstice Deck aboard the brand new Celebrity Reflection.

This is Cruise Radio.

Welcome to Celebrity Life.

We are aboard the brand new celebrity reflection here in Miami, Florida, taking this thing for a spin of two-night cruise.

Joining me is guest host, Travel Writer Chris Owen.

Dude, welcome to Cruise Radio.

Glad to be here.

I'll tell you, this is one hell of a ship. I know. We're sitting right here in the martini bar and crush, the 32 degree ice bar right in front of us, a bunch of crushed ice around the corner. You can't, this is hard to be. This is, they sum it up when they say modern luxury. They really do. They, they, they, in all the different venues, the dining venues and the different lounges and bars and places even the casino they're very friendly

about the thing and they really make you feel at home and I don't know what's

different here if you pick figured out yet it's that they just seem real happy

doing what they're doing yeah I've noticed that I noticed the the crew to passenger ratio is a lot higher, or it seems a lot higher on the ship, compared to the other mass market ships. It's really that one-on-one personal service. Even with the room stewards, they're like all over the place. It's pretty much impossible not to find one when you walk out your cabin. Yeah, I went to dinner one night. Well, I came back at the cabin after dinner, and there were mints on the pillows, and I grabbed them. I thought those tasty. They got these new foil-wrapped ones. They were really nice. And I went out and went to the casino, I think, came back later, and they'd replace the pillowments on my pillows.

It's definitely that one-on-one service they have here on Celebrity Cruises.

So it goes without saying, Chris, I'm a big fan of the Lawn Club here, which the Celebrity

Solstice class pretty much introduced the, whatever it is, half acre, quarter acre, live lawn

at sea.

And they also have a really cool dining venue called the Lawn Club Grill. And you had a chance to eat there. Oh, I'll tell you what. That's just the coolest thing. You wouldn't think that it would work to put grass on top of a cruise ship and say, okay, well, here's this grass. It's a half acre, but there's a lot of grass. still, if you stand in so many different directions in the lawn club area, you don't even know where you're at.

You think you're at some park somewhere.

And they just do such a good job with it.

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