Celebrity Century
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Celebrity Century
Celebrity Century is a cruise ship operated by Celebrity Cruises offering transatlantic sailings as well as itineraries in Europe, the Mediterranean, and Asia. The content focuses on an all-inclusive luxury cruise experience with gastronomy, onboard entertainment, pools, spa facilities, fitness center, and various leisure activities. It also includes balcony cabins, room service, concierge service, and included shore excursions. The page targets search intent related to premium cruise experiences, itineraries, and onboard amenities.
Itineraries of the Celebrity Century
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Technical specifications
- Tonnage: 71545
- Passengers: 1814
- Length: 248 m
- Width: 32 m
Frequently Asked Questions
Century measured 71,545 gross tons after her 2006 refit, against 70,606 at delivery in December 1995, and ran 248.4 metres by 32 metres. She carried 12 decks, 10 of them open to guests, and 907 cabins. Meyer Werft built her in Papenburg, Germany, as the lead ship of a three-vessel class. Under Marella she now measures roughly 72,458 gross tons after another dry dock.
Double occupancy. Maximum capacity reached 2,177 guests, 363 more people in the same 907 cabins, using third and fourth berths. The advertised guest-to-crew ratio of about 2.33 to 1 was calculated on double occupancy; at full load it degraded noticeably against 843 crew. Anyone comparing Century with a current ship had to check which of the two numbers was on the page.
Century was the eldest of the three and the only one to receive the major April 2006 refit at Fincantieri in Palermo, which added 314 private verandas and 14 Sky Suites. Galaxy and Mercury left Celebrity earlier, for TUI Cruises, and came back into the British group's fold as Marella Explorer and Marella Voyager. All three ended up at Marella Cruises, by three different routes. Century is the only one that passed through China.
Just under twenty years, from delivery in December 1995 to withdrawal in April 2015. She first sailed as plain Century, taking the Celebrity prefix in 2007. Celebrity announced her exit in February 2014, a full year ahead, and built a farewell cruise around it. The buyer was made public on 2 September 2014.
A great deal, and that yard period bought her another decade. Fincantieri cut 314 private verandas into the hull, created 14 Sky Suites, installed Murano and the Ocean Grill on the dining side, expanded the spa and fitness centre and opened Hemispheres at the top of the ship. The ship gained close to a thousand tons in the process, from 70,606 to 71,545. It also explains why only 43% of cabins had a balcony: the rest could never take one.
The 907 cabins came in some fifteen categories, from compact inside rooms amidships to the Sky Suites added in 2006. The verandas fitted during the refit, high in the ship, were the best compromise, since the original porthole and no-view cabins dated to 1995 and showed it. Ten cabins were accessible, a thin number against 907 units. The same hull now offers 16 categories in Marella colours.
The Italian restaurant Murano filled a three-deck atrium with hand-blown glass chandeliers, and it stayed the ship's signature. The Ocean Grill handled casual dining, Hemispheres served as the observation lounge, and the Crystal Lounge and Rendez-Vous Lounge carried the evening. X-Treme was the teen hangout. The spa and fitness centre had been enlarged in the 2006 refit.
Her balcony share of 43% stayed low for a ship sold at big-ship prices, and the original inside cabins were small. A 1995 hull meant narrower open decks than a Solstice-class ship and a less generous forward layout. Guests used to today's Infinite Verandas would find the whole thing dated. She also lacked the multiple dining venues that have since become standard.
With Celebrity, no, and not since April 2015. The hull still exists and still sells, but under another name and with another line, Marella Cruises, TUI's British arm. Bookings go through the UK network, in pounds sterling, with flights from Britain and a service built for British tastes. A Quebec client after the Celebrity experience will need a different ship.
She was sold in 2015 to SkySea Cruises, a venture of Chinese travel group Ctrip and Royal Caribbean Group, and renamed SkySea Golden Era for the Chinese market. Her last SkySea sailing left Shanghai on 29 August 2018, after the brand folded. She then went through a major refit in Cádiz, Spain, and joined Marella Cruises. Her first cruise in current colours dates to April 2019.
Marella Explorer 2. A widespread mix-up calls her Marella Discovery 2, including in trade documents: that is wrong. Marella Discovery 2 is a former Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, with no link to the Century class. If you are tracking the former Celebrity Century hull, search Marella Explorer 2, IMO number 9072446.
Marella Cruises, the British cruise brand of the TUI group, selling almost exclusively into the UK market. She has become an adults-only product there, 18 and over, with a heavily inclusive fare and a deliberately British atmosphere. Royal Caribbean Group has had no connection to her since the 2015 sale. The SkySea Cruises years, 2015 to 2018, were the only period when the hull shared a shareholder with Celebrity.
In 2026 Marella Explorer 2 runs eight 8-day round-trips from Dubrovnik between July and October, then repositions through Málaga in late October. She spends the winter in the Caribbean, round-trip from Bridgetown, Barbados, from November 2026 to April 2027. The pattern is standard Marella: Mediterranean in summer, Caribbean in winter, with charter flights from the UK. She has left Asia for good.
Celebrity Millennium, in size and in spirit, a mid-size ship that reaches ports closed to 3,000-guest vessels. Celebrity Summit plays the same role across the Bermuda and Caribbean seasons many former Century guests are chasing. For something newer, Celebrity Solstice represents the generation that directly replaced the Century class in the fleet. None of the three reproduces the Murano atrium, lost to successive refits.
She turned twenty in 2015 and belonged to a generation overtaken by the Solstice class, which arrived from 2008 with more verandas and broader dining. The Chinese market was expanding fast, and Royal Caribbean Group chose to monetise the hull in a venture with Ctrip rather than keep her under the Celebrity badge. The sale let the line concentrate on newer ships ahead of the Edge class in 2018. The calculation worked out for Celebrity, less so for SkySea, which shut down in 2018.
