Friday, August 6, 2010

Celebrity Cruises: Discover

This week, I was one of thirty Southern California travel agents invited to Beverly Hills for a special Celebrity Cruises demonstration and seminar emphasizing their enhanced onboard programs.

Celebrity has always delivered an outstanding cruise experience to every customer, with gorgeous ships worthy of Architectural Digest, pampering service and fantastic spas, regularly garnering awards in all those areas. Add the fact that your floating resort delivers some of the greatest destinations in the world to your doorstep, and over the twenty years of Celebrity's history, Celebrity has enjoyed well-deserved accolades from grateful guests.

They have upped the ante with their new Celebrity Life Onboard Programs. Briefly, there are three areas: Savor, Discover and Renew.

Savor continues the traditional of Celebrity excellence in dining and beverages, while Renew carries on the spa traditions.

Where you may find the greatest stretch is in the Discover Series.

When exploring foreign countries, we often find ourselves wanting to learn some of the native languages, so Celebrity has teamed with Rosetta Stone. Attend classes with other guests or submerge yourself into your own audio training class, or both. The methods have proven effective by combining visual, audio and kinesthetic learning into one package.

For computer classes, Celebrity has teamed with Apple, and their free classes also cover your iPhones and iPods. As the first authorized Apple reseller at sea (duty free!), Celebrity has committed to teaching any guest who desires how to convert from PC to Apple, how to make movies with Mac and dozens of other subjects. They have 27 MacBook Pros in each of their iLounges for guests to learn on. They can help you with organizing your photos on Mac, including use of a facial recognition program that can search your folders for pictures of a specific friend and bring them all into a new portfolio, if you choose. Or have Mac automatically gather all photos taken on a particular date and title them for that event. The technology is amazing and easy to use.

Prefer something a little less high tech for your photos? How about free scrapbooking classes with free supplies?

Celebrity has also taken a new look at dance classes, introducing fourteen new line dances exclusively for their guests, with everything from super simple to a recreation of a Beyonce video dance.

And culturally, you'll have more to anticipate onboard. There's always beautiful art on Celebrity ships, so they've added a self-guided audio art tour using iPods. The guest speaker programs have been expanded and upgraded, too, with speakers from the Smithsonian coming aboard.

There's a lot more, but you want to have some surprises, don't you?

Where in the world would you like to go?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Can I get a job in their apple lab?

; )

Guess who?