– Celebrity Cruises, the trademark that revolutionized the cruising industry with its squadron of Relaxed Luxurysm resorts at sea, is once then raising the bar as it becomes the first ocean trip line to overly earn prestigious Forbes Travel Guide (“FTG”) Star Awards. The recognition is made increasingly wonderful as Celebrity’s ships join an peerage and sectional group of fewer than 20 land-based properties with over 1,000 rooms in the world to overly receive the coveted recognition.

FTG is the global validity on luxury hospitality and the only global rating system for luxury hotels, restaurants, spas and now, the new ocean trip category. Their professional inspectors travel the world to anonymously evaluate the finest hotels, restaurants, spas, and ocean trip ships based on hundreds of exacting standards that determine their yearly Star Ratings.

The five inaugural resorts at sea Star-Rated ships are Celebrity Apex, Celebrity Edge, Celebrity Flora, Celebrity Millennium and Celebrity Summit. The remainder of the line’s 15-ship squadron will be evaluated in the year ahead, except for the line’s smaller Galapagos ships.

“We unchangingly reach for the stars at Idealism Cruises, whether it’s in our unrenowned level of service, our innovative ship design, or the highest quality of relaxed luxury experiences we provide onboard. To now be Star-rated multiple times over is such an incredible honor from the Forbes Travel Guide team. It’s confirmation that with our resorts at sea, our guests truly sail on the world’s weightier places to the world’s weightier places,” said Idealism Cruises President and CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo. “I’d like to congratulate the unshortened Idealism family, both at sea and shoreside, for this special recognition. I gloat each and every one of you and thank you for your dedication and transferral to delivering the weightier vacations at sea.”  

“Forbes Travel Guide is thrilled to signify Idealism ships as the world’s first Star-Rated resorts at sea in the new ocean trip category,” said Hermann Elger, CEO of Forbes Travel Guide. “Celebrity has delivered on Forbes Travel Guide’s standards time and time then during meticulous incognito inspections – offering guests experiences that rival those at the very weightier land-based properties. We congratulate Idealism Cruises on this spectacular and historic accomplishment."

The newly Star-rated Idealism ships represent three of the line’s matriculation of ships, including:

  • Edge Series- As twentieth-century as the name implies, these ships have been hailed as architectural masterpieces, introducing a plethora of industry firsts on a trip ship, such as an outward-facing resort deck, the world’s first cantilevered floating bar known as the The Magic Carpet®, luxurious new state rooms like the two-story Edge Villas with private plunge pools, and more. Celebrity ApexSM (2021) and Celebrity Edge® (2018) remain among the most highly awarded ships at sea, plane stuff named to TIME Magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places.”
  • Millennium Series – Offering a increasingly intimate cruising wits with just over 1,000 staterooms each, both Celebrity Millennium®and Celebrity Summit® were part of the line’s biggest fleet-wide modernization in 2019, with increasingly than $500 million in luxurious upgrades made.
  • Mega-Yacht– Celebrity Flora® is an sectional 100-passenger luxury mega-yacht designed specifically and purposefully for expeditions in the Galapagos and built to merge with its surroundings. With all-natural materials, she introduced a state-of-the-art positioning system permitting the ship to remain stationary without dropping anchors to remoter protect the seabed and solar panels making it one of the most eco-friendly ships sailing anywhere. Fully immersing travelers with the destination, all itineraries are led by certified naturalists from the Galapagos Natural Park.