Celebrity Eclipse to be delivered early

The debut of Celebrity Cruises’ 2,800 passenger capacity Celebrity Eclipse will be delivered early from her German builders next year, enabling an additional three-night ‘taster’ cruise to be added to her schedule.

 Celebrity Eclipse, the first Celebrity vessel to be homeported in the UK port of Southampton for a summer season, will arrive early from Germany’s Meyer Werft in the week commencing 19 April 2010 for her launch celebrations, enabling a new three-night ‘taster’ cruise to be added to her schedule.  The new cruise will depart Southampton on 26 April 2010 and will call at Le Havre, France.

Commenting on the early arrival of Celebrity Eclipse, Robin Shaw, vice president and managing director for the UK and Ireland, RCCL said: ‘launch celebrations in July this year for Celebrity Equinox were a conscious effort to showcase our new Solstice-class of ships to as many British and Irish travel professionals as possible in the build-up to the arrival in 2010 of sistership Celebrity Eclipse dedicated to the UK and Irish market.  We are reaping the rewards of this activity and Celebrity Eclipse is the best performing ship in the Celebrity fleet. We hope that this additional taster cruise will stimulate the market

further and introduce Celebrity Cruises to the new to cruise market.’

Celebrity Eclipses’ maiden four-night voyage to Cork, Ireland will depart Southampton  as planned on 29 April 2010.