Celebrity Xcel Review: First Impressions with Sometimes Sailing
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Sheri from CruiseTipsTV
4.8 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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In this episode, we welcome Dan and Mikkel of Sometimes Sailing to break down their experience onboard Celebrity Xcel. From embarkation impressions to favorite spaces, dining highlights, surprises, and tips for future guests, this conversation offers a fresh look at Celebrity's newest ship. Download our shore day bag checklist and more cruise packing and planning checklists & videos by joining the CruiseTipsTV Academy at https://academy.cruisetipstv.com
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast. Today on the show, we have some very |
| 0:06.2 | special guests here to review Celebrities' brand new cruise ship, Celebrity Excel. |
| 0:17.3 | Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. I'm your host Sherry and we invite you to join our |
| 0:23.9 | cruise loving family as we travel the world creating cruise videos and vlogs. In this podcast, |
| 0:31.1 | we talk tips, tactics, and strategies to help you make every cruise your dream cruise. |
| 0:37.7 | Well, hello, cruisers. |
| 0:39.1 | We are so stoked today because we have some very special guests and friends here on the show. |
| 0:45.4 | Dan and McKell Woodruff have joined us to talk about Celebrity Excel, and they are from |
| 0:50.6 | Central Florida. |
| 0:52.1 | They are absolute cruise pros. |
| 0:54.0 | I've known them for years. We meet up at |
| 0:55.7 | industry events all the time. They are so fun. They are so energetic. And they're the team |
| 1:00.4 | behind sometimes sailing, which is a go-to site for all things small ship cruising and small |
| 1:07.8 | ship cruise talk. In fact, they have the only podcast out there that's all about river, yacht, expedition, |
| 1:16.0 | and even barge cruising. |
| 1:17.6 | So they're going to help us break down the ins and outs of celebrities ship within a ship concept |
| 1:22.9 | because not only do they focus on these smaller ships, but they do like to talk about big ocean lines and shine a spotlight on those luxury touches that make small ship travel so special. |
| 1:36.3 | So Dan and McKell, welcome to the show. |
| 1:39.1 | Thanks for being here, you guys. |
| 1:41.4 | Hello, hello. Welcome to us. |
| 1:43.5 | Yes. |
| 1:49.3 | I'm feeling a lot of people. We're not hosting this. |
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