{"id":32772,"date":"2023-02-19T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/celebrity-cruises-becomes-first-line-to-earn-coveted-award\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T21:30:11","slug":"celebrity-cruises-becomes-first-line-to-earn-coveted-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/celebrity-cruises-becomes-first-line-to-earn-coveted-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Cruises Becomes First Line to Earn Coveted Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Five ships operated by Celebrity Cruises acquired Star Awards from Forbes Travel Guide, marking the primary time that the score service and on-line publication has acknowledged an ocean cruise line with its high honor. <\/p>\n<p>The 2023 resort-at-sea awards to Celebrity Cruises place the Royal Caribbean Group model in good firm, becoming a member of an unique assortment of land-based luxurious properties. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-two-edge-class-ships-among-winners\">Two Edge-Class Ships Among Winners <\/h2>\n<p>This 12 months, Forbes Travel Guide, the worldwide score authority for luxurious lodges and resorts, spas, and eating places, expanded its critiques to incorporate ocean cruise ships for the primary time. Celebrity Cruises is the one cruise line to have its ships listed within the prestigious Forbes Star Awards. <\/p>\n<p>Ships honored with the award are the three,405-guest, 130,818 gross ton <em>Celebrity Apex<\/em>, and the two,908-guest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/things-to-do-on-a-celebrity-edge-cruise\/29630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>129,500 gross ton <em>Celebrity Edge<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, each Edge Class vessels; two Millennium Class ships, the two,138-guest, 90,963 gross ton <em>Celebrity Millennium<\/em>, and the two,158-guest, 90,940 gross ton <em>Celebrity Summit<\/em>; and one of many line\u2019s Galapagos vessels, the 100-guest, 5,592 gross ton <em>Celebrity Flora<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><picture decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86597 sp-no-webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Melissa Mayntz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Celebrity Cruises President and CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo stated,<\/strong> <em>\u201cWe always reach for the stars at Celebrity Cruises, whether it\u2019s in our exceptional level of service, our innovative ship design, or the highest quality of relaxed luxury experiences we provide onboard.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTo now be Star-rated multiple times over is such an incredible honor from the Forbes Travel Guide team. It\u2019s confirmation that with our resorts at sea, our guests truly sail on the world\u2019s best places to the world\u2019s best places.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Celebrity Cruises, the rest of the road\u2019s 15-ship fleet might be evaluated within the 12 months forward, apart from the road\u2019s smaller Galapagos ships. <\/p>\n<h2>A Set Of Exacting Standards <\/h2>\n<p>The Forbes Travel Guide scores come from its skilled inspectors who anonymously consider lodges, eating places, spas, and now, ocean cruise ships, based mostly on tons of of exacting requirements that decide the annual star scores. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Forbes Travel Guide CEO Hermann Elger stated,<\/strong> <em>\u201cCelebrity has delivered on Forbes Travel Guide\u2019s standards time and time again during meticulous incognito inspections \u2013 offering guests experiences that rival those at the very best land-based properties. We congratulate Celebrity Cruises on this spectacular and historic accomplishment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><picture decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-90901 sp-no-webp\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Copyright: Darryl Brooks \/ Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A press release from Forbes stated {that a} second wave of cruise traces might be introduced later this 12 months, and evaluations are underway on a number of ships incomes their star score for 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the onboard improvements cruisers discover on Celebrity\u2019s Edge Class ships embrace the trade\u2019s first cantilevered floating bar known as The Magic Carpet, its two-story Edge Villas staterooms with non-public plunge swimming pools, and an outward-facing resort deck. <\/p>\n<p>The line\u2019s fourth Edge Class ship is beneath development on the Chantiers de l\u2019Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France. The <em>Celebrity Ascent<\/em> will carry 3,260 friends and is scheduled to launch in late 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Celebrity Cruises lately introduced that two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/brothers-to-co-captain-new-celebrity-cruise-ship\/92995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Greek brothers will co-captain <em>Celebrity Ascent<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Captains Dimitrios Kafetzis and Tasos Kafetzis, each veteran officers with the road, will share the helm of the brand new ship, on rotating three-month assignments onboard.<\/p>\n<picture class=\"ss-hidden-pin-image sp-no-webp\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/celebrity-cruises-becomes-first-line-to-earn-coveted-award\/94576\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/celebrityedge7.jpg\" data-pin-description=\"Celebrity Cruises Becomes First Line to Earn Coveted Award via @cruisehive\" style=\"\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Five ships operated by Celebrity Cruises acquired Star Awards from Forbes Travel Guide, marking the primary time that the score service and on-line publication has acknowledged an ocean cruise line with its high honor. The 2023 resort-at-sea awards to Celebrity Cruises place the Royal Caribbean Group model in good firm, becoming a member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cruisehive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/celebrityedge7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cruise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}