The pinnacle of top class cruising
Celebrity Summit, which entered service in November 2001, leaves you feeling on top of the world.
Large in size yet intimately elegant in ambience, Celebrity Summit – the third of four ships in Celebritys Millennium-class fleet alongside Celebrity Costellation, Celebrity Infinity and Celebrity Millennium – boasts all of the services and amenities that have made Celebrity the preferred choice of avid cruisers around the world.
And Celebrity continued its distinctive tradition of paying tribute to grand, historic ocean liners with Summits specialty restaurant Normandie, featuring original panelling and various artifacts from the the ship that was considered the foremost ocean liner of the 1930s.
Normandie was the industrys first 1,000ft liner, the first French Line vessel to win the coveted Blue Riband, the North Atlantics prize for speed, and the first to take the chic arts decoratifs – now known as art deco – design style to sea.
On Summit, the 134-guest specialty restaurant – aptly named The Normandie – recalls the art deco design of the original Normandies scheme, with a dining venue divided by a circular colonnade displaying two sets of four large, gold-lacquered panels from the stylish smoking room on the original Normandie. Celebrity obtained the panels at auction at Christies.
The restaurant provides guests with an elegant, alternative dining experience created by Celebritys longtime culinary consultant, Master Chef Michel Roux.
The $350-million Summit, built at Chantiers de lAtlantique in St Nazaire, France, where the original Normandie was built, presented the industrys largest luxury suites and a wealth of ocean views – 80 per cent of the staterooms have an ocean view, and 74 per cent of those will have verandas.
PASSENGERS : 1950
BERTHS : 975
CREW : 1000
FACILITIES : Three dining rooms (two sittings), eleven bars, four lounges, casino, theatre, disco, card room, library, conference centre, boutiques, beauty shop, two outside, one inside swimming pool, fitness center.