According to members on the Cruise Critic message board, a group of guests onboard the Celebrity Eclipse were robbed at gunpoint earlier this week while in St. Lucia. A group of guests were apparently on a Celebrity sponsored shore excursion when three masked gunmen approached their group and demanded that they hand over all of their jewelry, […]
Celebrity Cruise’s newest ship, the Celebrity Reflection, was christened this past Saturday in Miami, Florida – the Reflection’s new homeport. The Reflection had just completed a transatlantic cruise a day earlier and was christened by four Godmothers, all Celebrity employees who have either donated time and talents to supporting breast cancer patients, or employees who […]
The Virgin Islands Daily News reports today that the U.S. Coast Guard continues to investigate the fatal parasailing accident in St. Thomas which killed a Celebrity Cruises passenger and seriously injured her daughter on November 15, 2011. We discussed this incident in our article Celebrity Cruises Passenger Killed in Parasailng Accident in St. Thomas. The incidents resulted in the death of Bernice […]
Two Americans vacationing this week on a Celebrity Cruises ship were left behind in St. Kitts after they allegedly were caught with marijuana in their cabin, a local news outlet on the island reports. The St. Kitts Observer says William Donovan and Shari Hoffman of Los Angeles were not allowed back on board the Celebrity Eclipse on Wednesday […]
Celebrity Cruises has canceled all parasailing trips in the Caribbean — indefinitely — following an accident in St. Thomas that left one passenger dead and another critically injured. Royal Caribbean, Celebrity’s sister line, has followed suit. A 60-year-old passenger sailing on Celebrity Eclipse, who the Virgin Island Daily News identified as Bernice Kraftcheck, 60, died as a […]
A news source in the U.S. Virgin Islands reports that two passengers from the Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship were involved in a serious para sailing accident on Tuesday in St. Thomas. The incident occurred late Tuesday afternoon while the passengers were on an excursion. One of the passengers died, and the other was seriously injured and remains hospitalized. There are comments […]