Equinox Review mostly some pictures

[Trish Traveler]

Sorry this is so late.  I'm just too busy to write a full review, so I will try to post random pictures.  We were finally able to arrange this cruise to replace a cancelled March 2022. We sailed on the Celebrity Equinox out of Ft. Lauderdale for 9 nights, November 3-12 visiting Grand Cayman, Aruba, Curacao (1st time – WOO-HOO) and Bonaire.

The cruise was fantastic, with mostly great weather.  The crew was terrific.  Thoroughly enjoyed the food, drinks and entertainment.The ship is in good shape.  Some age showing on our balcony, but most everything else looked fine. 

Below pics from embarkation day. My DH loved the jerk chicken at dinner in the MDR.

 

[Trish Traveler]

One of many beautiful sunsets.  A colorful production show called Topper, I think.

[Trish Traveler]

Grand Cayman.  We didn't take a tour here. Visited Sunset House for some nice snorkeling and afterwards drinks(great rum punch), appetizers and views at their bar.  The pool shown is only for resort guests.  I just wanted a picture of the mermaid statue.

[Trish Traveler]

Relaxing sea day.  I believe that drink is the French Caribbean- delicious.  A beautiful, though ominous sunset.  I love the contrast!  Light breakfast from the Sanctuary.

[Trish Traveler]

Caught this amazing shot of a ship (too far to identify it) directly under a rainbow. 

[Loracpin2]

Have sailed the EQUINOX 5 times. FANTASTIC CRUISE EVERY TRIP!!!!! 

 

[Trish Traveler]

Aruba- We chose to enjoy the early part of the day walking around the port and town.  We were lucky to be back on the ship before the afternoon thunderstorms hit the beach areas of Aruba and then later by the ship still docked in port.  Treated to a double rainbow.

 

[Trish Traveler]

Curacao - We took an independent tour here. Fantastic tour of Curacao with Jaentree of Fascinating Taxi & Tours. We pre-booked through Viator for this shore excursion for our cruise port stop. It was our first time to the island and we had a long port stop, so we were thrilled to be able to take the 5 hour Nature Lovers Tour to see the nature side of Curacao, which also left us plenty of time to explore the city of Willemstad on our own.

First photo below is from Shete Boka National Park cliffs which would normally have much higher waves crashing, but due to a tropical storm further north it was calming the waters here.  Still beautiful.

Octopus painted tree was very cool to see.  Next two pictures are from Playa Pikado where you can swim with turtles.

[Trish Traveler]

That's Piskado above, not Pikado.

The next beach stop was beautiful Kenepa beach/Klein Knip.

[Trish Traveler]

The Williwood neighborhood sign.  And treated to a sighting of wild flamingos!! Fantastic!

 

[horseymike]

Beautiful pictures.

Thanks for sharing them with us here on CC.

Glad you enjoyed your cruise 🚢 

[Trish Traveler]

Later on our own exploring beautiful Curacao seeing the Rif Fort, Queen Emma floating bridge, and the iconic colorful Handelskade buildings.

[Trish Traveler]

On the Punda side of the bridge we strolled and enjoyed all the colorful murals and art.

[Trish Traveler]

Our ship stayed in Curacao till 10pm, so we were able to enjoy a sunset and the amazing lights of Willemstad, including the arched blue lights on the Queen Emma bridge!

[Trish Traveler]

Bonaire - We did an independent tour here also with a great company called Voyager Tours.  We were on the 3 1/2 hour Combi North/South Tour.  Photos show the 1000 steps beach, more fantastic wild flamingos at Gato Lake and a beautiful Christian monument on top of Seru Largu.

[Trish Traveler]

Also on the tour we saw the salt piles and the slave huts.

[Trish Traveler]

Equinox in port at Bonaire and the Umbrella restaurant.

 

[Trish Traveler]

Some delicious Equinox buffet food and back in Port Everglades.  The cruise was wonderful.  Hope you enjoyed this quick, random photo review.  Thanks to all the CC members who help me with my research every time I cruise!!

[lola2013]

Your photos are beautiful.  We board Equinox next week for the ABCs and Puerta Plata.  I’m anxious to get back to my first Celebrity ship.

Thanks 😎

[MarKay525]

30 minutes ago, Trish Traveler said:

Our ship stayed in Curacao till 10pm, so we were able to enjoy a sunset <snip>!

 

Absolutely beautiful. With your permission, I'd like to add it to the sunset collection hanging in my home office.

We took the same cruise in September and Hurricane Ian was with us the entire trip, so most of our pictures involve rain! Yours are spectacular.

Edited February 3, 2023 by MarKay525

[Trish Traveler]

40 minutes ago, horseymike said:

Beautiful pictures.

Thanks for sharing them with us here on CC.

Glad you enjoyed your cruise 🚢 

Thank you.  We sure did enjoy the cruise.

[Trish Traveler]

17 minutes ago, lola2013 said:

Your photos are beautiful.  We board Equinox next week for the ABCs and Puerta Plata.  I’m anxious to get back to my first Celebrity ship.

Thanks 😎

Thank you.  Have a great cruise!

[Trish Traveler]

3 minutes ago, MarKay525 said:

Absolutely beautiful. With your permission, I'd like to add it to the sunset collection hanging in my home office.

We took the same cruise in September and Hurricane Ian was with us the entire trip, so most of our pictures involve rain!

Sure you can use it.  I'm just an amateur photographer enjoying vacation.

[MarKay525]

4 minutes ago, Trish Traveler said:

Sure you can use it.  I'm just an amateur photographer enjoying vacation.

Thx

 

[Trish Traveler]

One last set of pictures to add.  Most of the decor in the public areas of the Equinox was very nice and tasteful.  But I wanted to add some of the unusual art around the ship on the Equinox.  Most of this odd art is found in the stairwells.  And although I didn't care for some of it, it did get my attention which is what art should do I guess.  Crayon drawings, hankies, knick-knacks, etc....  it does get you talking about the art.  The worst was the piece in our cabin with the lady's face scratched out.  What mysogynist thought that was nice art for a cabin?  😲