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And while most guests get only one reservation at each of the speciality restaurants, Umi Uma and Osteria d’Ovidio, reservations for the penthouse guests are unlimited, and they can order from both directly to their room.

The bathroom - with a full peachflower marble tub - is exquisite, as is the plentiful balcony space. The most luxurious suite on Serenity is the 1,275-square-foot Crystal Penthouse. Every accommodation comes with 24/7 butler service. The smallest cabins, at 215 square feet, are the double rooms with an ocean view, single rooms with an ocean view, and double rooms with a veranda. There are no inside cabins on the 545-room Crystal Serenity - even the entry-level offering has an ocean view. But A&K, committed to keeping the returning guests happy, left some Sapphire Veranda Suites as they were - including the cabin Linda Glenn has booked since 2009. My 430-square-foot Sapphire Veranda Suite - where I enjoyed my daily iced teas on the balcony, slept phenomenally well on the custom Jesurum 1870 bedding and revelled in the spaciousness of the shower - was gutted in 2023 and completely redone by cruise ship designer GEM. Here, is everything you need to know about the new and improved Crystal Serenity - and what it was like to be one of the first on board. It was due respect to my husband, even better care than I would’ve gotten back home. When I wasn’t feeling well, he brought me several rounds of chicken consumé, toast, and mint tea as I watched “ Top Gun: Maverick” under the covers.

Jijo unpacked my suitcase, handled my laundry and my airport transfer, routinely surprised me with an afternoon iced tea, and accompanied me to the IT office when my Wi-Fi went out. My butler, Jijo, who had been with Crystal for 17 years before the bankruptcy, knew every one of his guests on that first sailing - I was his only newcomer. That’s large because 80 percent of Crystal Serenity’s crew is back on board.

Crystal Cruises is known for its exceptional world cruises, and Serenity embarks on its first around-the-world tour in 2024.

The 740-passenger ship has all ocean-view rooms - and most have balconies - plus 24/7 butler service.

On Serenity, Umi Uma, a Japanese-Peruvian spot by chef Nobu Matsuhisa is one of the best restaurants on board. Crystal Cruises has the only Nobu restaurants at sea.“Every person we’ve spoken to would say, from the moment they came on, it feels, it looks, it smells like Crystal. He’s been on 118 Crystal cruises with his wife, Anne Marie.

“It’s Crystal enhanced,” Steiner told me, as we sailed from Corsica to Barcelona on a particularly rocky day on the Mediterranean. Seventeen months later, the line has returned under luxury tour operator A&K Travel Group. The 740-passenger Crystal Serenity got a hefty refurbishment and relaunched in July 2023, and its siblingship, Crystal Symphony, followed suit in August. Fast forward 19 years and Crystal went bankrupt in fairly spectacular fashion in early 2022. To put a time stamp on that, Julie Andrews was named the godmother of Serenity, and “The Princess Diaries” had come out two years before. Here’s what happened: Crystal Serenity first launched in 2003. Crystal Serenity is back on the water with a slate of epic itineraries What’s strange about all this is I met these folks on Crystal Serenity’s inaugural journey. And Glenn’s grandson, Tate, has been sailing on Crystal Serenity since he was two. Linda Glenn, who has been on 130 Crystal cruises, promised to show me the beautiful ring her husband, Stanley, commissioned from the jeweller who supplies Serenity’s boutique. Veteran Crystal cruiser Keith Steiner regaled me with stories of the paddle tennis tournament he plays in every year, alongside the crew, on the line’s world cruises. On a July cruise in the Mediterranean Sea, most of the passengers I met had sailed on Serenity many times before. Spending a week on Crystal Serenity feels like staying at a resort that families have been visiting for 20 years.

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