Celebrity Millennium European Cruise Review
Deck 3(Plaza Deck) contains passenger staterooms forward, and the lowest level of the 3 deck atrium?called the Grand Foyer?amidship. Here can be found the Guest Relations desk, bank, shore excursion area, and beautiful backlit marble staircase leading up to Deck 4. The Bank was open a great deal and bought and sold all the currencies for the numerous countries we visited at a somewhat favorable exchange rate with no commission.
The Shore Excursion area was a large alcove with supplemental seating, but since we booked our excursions in advance, we did not avail ourselves of their services. Aft of this atrium area on the starboard side, are numerous meeting and conference rooms and the Cinema. Celebrity does not run 1strate movies in the Cinemas on their ships because these are available on your stateroom TV at the Pay-Per-View rate of $8.95! Only 2ndrate older movies are shown in the cinema, and since there were not any that interested us we never went to the cinema. On the port side, aft of the atrium, is the Olympic Restaurant. This is Millennium's specialty restaurant, which most people already know contains the wood paneling and some decor items from the original Olympic, sister ship to infamous Titanic. It is magnificently presented, and consists of three rooms. The 1st is an entry hall of sorts with pictures, memorabilia, and information about Olympic. The 2ndroom actually contains all the wood paneling, and it is truly stunning.
A few tables for dining are available in this room. The 3rdroom is the larger dining area with the majority of tables for dinner, but it is rather plain with white walls and pillars. This room also has a viewing window into the galley for the Olympic Restaurant, where you can watch some of the pre-preparation of the meals (most of the final preparation is done table side). More about this experience will be described in our section on Dining later in this report. Behind the Olympic and Conference center was the main kitchen, and galley tours were offered during the cruise. We took one of these tours and although the kitchen is immense, it was not as interesting nor as striking as others we have taken in the past (i.e. Grand Princess).
Decks 4
(Promenade) and 5 (Entertainment) represented the heart of the ship inasmuch as dining, drinking, shopping, and entertainment are concerned. Deck 4 has the exterior promenade area, but for those who like walking be advised that this promenade DOES NOT wrap all around the ship. If you want to walk laps for exercise, as Tommie and I do, Deck 11 (jogging track) is the only choice.
The Metropolitan Restaurant occupies the stern of the vessel and is the elegant two deck main dining room with an interior grand staircase connecting the two levels, although you can also enter each level on its respective deck. The room features beautiful lighting and lighting effects, two deck high glass windows at the very back, large porthole type windows on the sides, and an area at the top of the staircase where musicians play during the evening dining hours. The back windows are covered by a scenic shades on formal nights, and the side windows have both light filtering and scenic shades that are used to enhance the comfort and ambiance of the room. Main seating typically commenced at 7:30AM for breakfast, Noon for lunch and 6:15PM for dinner, while Late seating hours were 8:45AM, 1:30PM, and 8:30PM. When in port both breakfast and lunch were usually open seating and the hours varied. More about the Metropolitan Restaurant can be found in our section on Dining.
The Celebrity Theater occupies the bow of the vessel and is the beautiful three deck main entertainment area for all the ship's production shows and other entertainers. Although the theater actually extends down to Deck 3, there is no entrance from that deck. The sight lines were excellent from virtually anywhere in this huge theater, and we especially liked the unique long curved bar tables at the very top. This was a perfect place to watch the show while enjoying an evening cocktail or liquor. There were two large projection screens, one at each side of the stage, where the entertainment on stage was sometimes projected so that those at the very back could see better. There were also very interesting torch-like lighting effects around the room, which anyone who has seen the 'burning buildings' in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in any of the Disney theme parks can relate to. Of course this was also the main meeting place for all the shore excursions and tender boats tickets.
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The Shore Excursion area was a large alcove with supplemental seating, but since we booked our excursions in advance, we did not avail ourselves of their services. Aft of this atrium area on the starboard side, are numerous meeting and conference rooms and the Cinema. Celebrity does not run 1strate movies in the Cinemas on their ships because these are available on your stateroom TV at the Pay-Per-View rate of $8.95! Only 2ndrate older movies are shown in the cinema, and since there were not any that interested us we never went to the cinema. On the port side, aft of the atrium, is the Olympic Restaurant. This is Millennium's specialty restaurant, which most people already know contains the wood paneling and some decor items from the original Olympic, sister ship to infamous Titanic. It is magnificently presented, and consists of three rooms. The 1st is an entry hall of sorts with pictures, memorabilia, and information about Olympic. The 2ndroom actually contains all the wood paneling, and it is truly stunning.
A few tables for dining are available in this room. The 3rdroom is the larger dining area with the majority of tables for dinner, but it is rather plain with white walls and pillars. This room also has a viewing window into the galley for the Olympic Restaurant, where you can watch some of the pre-preparation of the meals (most of the final preparation is done table side). More about this experience will be described in our section on Dining later in this report. Behind the Olympic and Conference center was the main kitchen, and galley tours were offered during the cruise. We took one of these tours and although the kitchen is immense, it was not as interesting nor as striking as others we have taken in the past (i.e. Grand Princess).
Decks 4
(Promenade) and 5 (Entertainment) represented the heart of the ship inasmuch as dining, drinking, shopping, and entertainment are concerned. Deck 4 has the exterior promenade area, but for those who like walking be advised that this promenade DOES NOT wrap all around the ship. If you want to walk laps for exercise, as Tommie and I do, Deck 11 (jogging track) is the only choice.
The Metropolitan Restaurant occupies the stern of the vessel and is the elegant two deck main dining room with an interior grand staircase connecting the two levels, although you can also enter each level on its respective deck. The room features beautiful lighting and lighting effects, two deck high glass windows at the very back, large porthole type windows on the sides, and an area at the top of the staircase where musicians play during the evening dining hours. The back windows are covered by a scenic shades on formal nights, and the side windows have both light filtering and scenic shades that are used to enhance the comfort and ambiance of the room. Main seating typically commenced at 7:30AM for breakfast, Noon for lunch and 6:15PM for dinner, while Late seating hours were 8:45AM, 1:30PM, and 8:30PM. When in port both breakfast and lunch were usually open seating and the hours varied. More about the Metropolitan Restaurant can be found in our section on Dining.
The Celebrity Theater occupies the bow of the vessel and is the beautiful three deck main entertainment area for all the ship's production shows and other entertainers. Although the theater actually extends down to Deck 3, there is no entrance from that deck. The sight lines were excellent from virtually anywhere in this huge theater, and we especially liked the unique long curved bar tables at the very top. This was a perfect place to watch the show while enjoying an evening cocktail or liquor. There were two large projection screens, one at each side of the stage, where the entertainment on stage was sometimes projected so that those at the very back could see better. There were also very interesting torch-like lighting effects around the room, which anyone who has seen the 'burning buildings' in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in any of the Disney theme parks can relate to. Of course this was also the main meeting place for all the shore excursions and tender boats tickets.
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