Celebrity Equinox
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Celebrity Equinox
The Celebrity Equinox is a Celebrity Cruises ship focused on premium onboard accommodations, dining, and services. It includes suite-level options such as The Retreat, AquaClass, Concierge Class, and Veranda cabins. Dining highlights include specialty restaurants such as Le Petit Chef and Tuscan Grille, as well as Blu for healthy cuisine. Onboard amenities include Martini Bar, Passport Bar Lounge, casino, spa and wellness center, fitness facility, adults-only solarium, pool, cinema, Broadway-style shows, nightclub, duty-free shops, Starlink WiFi, and organized shore excursions. This ship is well suited for travelers seeking a contemporary large-ship Celebrity Cruises experience combining comfort, relaxation, entertainment, wellness facilities, and varied dining options.
Itineraries of the Celebrity Equinox
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decks plans
Deck - 16
Solstice
Deck - 15
The Lawn Club
Deck - 14
Lido
Deck - 12
Resort
Deck - 11
Penthouse
Deck - 10
Sky
Deck - 9
Panorama
Deck - 8
Vista
Deck - 7
Sunrise
Deck - 6
Continental
Deck - 5
Entertainment
Deck - 4
Promenade
Deck - 3
Plaza
Deck - 2
Medical
Ship's attributes
Services And Amenities
- Elevators
- Self-service laundry room
- Casino
- Jacuzzi
- Pool
- Beauty salon
- Spa & body care
Specific needs
- Wheelchair accessible staterooms
Technical specifications
- Classe: Solstice Class
- Tonnage: 121878
- Speed: 24.0 knots
- Passengers: 2852
- Decks: 15
- Length: 317 m
- Width: 37 m
History
- 2009: Année de construction
- 2019: Année de rénovation
Frequently Asked Questions
The Equinox measures 121,878 gross tons, 317 m by 37 m, with 14 guest-accessible decks numbered 2 to 16 and no deck 13. She holds 1,426 cabins, including 719 Deluxe Ocean View with veranda, 273 Concierge Class, 130 AquaClass, 44 Sky Suites and 140 inside cabins. Meyer Werft delivered her in July 2009, ten months after the Solstice. She is the second ship of the class and has never been stretched or structurally altered.
Double occupancy, 2,852 guests, assumes two people per cabin and drives the space ratio and shore excursion quotas. Maximum capacity, 3,148, adds the pullman berths and sofa beds in family cabins. That gap of nearly 300 people shows up mostly during European school holidays in July and August, when the four-berth cabins fill. On the December South American season the ship sails much closer to double occupancy, and it feels calmer.
The Equinox is the only Solstice-class ship that reaches Cape Horn and Antarctica. Her main dining room is called Silhouette, which is easy to confuse with the ship of the same name. She kept the real grass at the Lawn Club, unlike the Solstice which lost hers in 2026, and her deck 16 remains open to every guest. She lacks The Porch and the Lawn Club Grill carried by the Silhouette and the Reflection.
She spends summer and autumn in the Mediterranean on 10- and 11-day loops from Barcelona and Civitavecchia-Rome through 9 November 2026. On 19 November she leaves Barcelona on a 17-day crossing to Buenos Aires. From 5 December 2026 she runs 14- and 15-day voyages from the Argentine capital. She is the only Celebrity ship covering South America that winter.
From January to February 2027 she closes her South American season out of Buenos Aires, then returns to the Mediterranean for summer. On 19 November 2027 she heads south again for a season running to February 2028, with 14-night itineraries to Punta Arenas, Ushuaia, the Chilean fjords and Cape Horn. For the Mediterranean, Barcelona and Rome are seasonal nonstops from Montreal at roughly seven and a half hours. For Buenos Aires there is no nonstop at all: expect a connection through Toronto, São Paulo, Santiago or Panama, 16 to 20 hours door to door, and book a hotel night before embarkation.
For the Mediterranean, a Deluxe Ocean View with veranda on decks 8 or 9 amidships gives the best balance of comfort and stability. For Antarctica and Cape Horn a veranda becomes close to essential, since the entire scenic cruising day happens from the cabin or the open decks. The 130 AquaClass cabins include Blu and the Persian Garden; the 273 Concierge Class mainly add attentions and priority boarding. The 44 Retreat Sky Suites open Luminae, the Retreat Lounge and the private sundeck.
The main dining room, Silhouette, spans decks 3 and 4. Extra-charge venues: Murano, Tuscan Grille, Le Petit Chef at Qsine, Sushi on Five, Craft Social and Chef's Table by Daniel Boulud. Blu is reserved for AquaClass cabins and Luminae for Retreat suites. Bars include Martini Bar & Crush, the World Class Bar, the aft Sunset Bar, the Passport Bar, Slush by the pool, Quasar and the Sky Observation Lounge.
Her last real modernisation was 2019, and no date has been announced for her turn in the Solstice Series programme despite press releases covering all five ships. Recent reviews mention long waits at the bars, a main dining room that varies from night to night, and a buffet on deck 14 well away from the evening restaurants. She has neither The Porch nor the Lawn Club Grill, two strengths of her younger sisters. And Antarctica here is watched from a balcony, never from the ground.
The Simply Sail fare covers the cabin, meals in the Silhouette dining room, the Oceanview Café, the Mast Grill and the Spa Café, the shows, the pools and the gym. The All Included fare adds the Classic drinks package and Basic Wi-Fi. Murano, Tuscan Grille, Le Petit Chef, Sushi on Five and Craft Social stay extra, as do shore excursions and the spa. On a 17-day crossing to Buenos Aires the gap between the two fares widens quickly, since there are eight sea days.
No. Daily service charges are added to your onboard account and vary by cabin category. The All Included fare covers gratuities on drinks, not that daily charge. On a 15-day South American voyage the amount adds up, so prepay at booking to lock it in at the current rate. Local tipping customs in Argentina do not replace the ship's service charge in any way.
It depends entirely on the itinerary. A ten-day Mediterranean loop from Barcelona strings ports together and leaves little time on board, which works against the package. The 17-day crossing to Buenos Aires and the 14-day Antarctic loops carry many sea days, and there the Classic package pays for itself easily at the Sunset Bar and Martini Bar & Crush. The Premium package only matters if you use the World Class Bar or drink above the standard wine list.
Basic Wi-Fi, included with the All Included fare, handles email, browsing and text messaging. The Premium tier, needed for streaming and video calls, costs extra. Coverage in the Mediterranean is excellent almost everywhere. In the Chilean fjords, around Cape Horn and along the Antarctic Peninsula, expect extended outages: that is the least-served stretch of the Equinox's whole deployment.
Camp at Sea takes ages 3 to 12 in three groups, Shipmates, Cadets and Captains, and the Equinox kept its teen club, unlike the Solstice. European school holidays in July and August fill the ship with families; the December to February South American season carries far fewer. There is no nursery on board, and children must be at least 3 and toilet trained to be left at Camp at Sea. The Antarctic voyage, with entire days of scenic cruising, bores young children badly.
Points accrue by cabin category and number of nights, so a 17-day crossing to Buenos Aires earns more than a ten-day Mediterranean loop. Tiers run from Preview to Zenith, and on 11 June 2026 Celebrity added Double Zenith at 6,000 points and Triple Zenith at 9,000. From 1,500 points, Premium Wi-Fi minutes double and the specialty dining discount applies at Murano and Tuscan Grille. Status is reciprocal with Royal Caribbean.
In the summer Mediterranean, very rarely. On the South Atlantic crossing in November, yes, with several days of long swell. Cape Horn and the approaches to the Drake Passage are the hardest stretch in the entire Celebrity programme: bring motion sickness treatment and book decks 7 to 9 amidships. The stabilisers work well at cruising speed and less well when the ship slows for scenic cruising.
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