Into the New Millennium

Can anybody remember the turn of the millennium when we were all worried about Y2K? And then to mark the new millennium, Celebrity Cruises named their brand-new ship (and the first of the revolutionary new class) Celebrity Millennium. Can you believe that was 19 years ago?

At the end of last week Celebrity Millennium left the Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore and reentered service after a month-long transformation that updated the ship and made it into the stunner it was when was delivered at the turn of the millennium. It was the first of the class to undergo the Celebrity Revolution, a half-billion-dollar program to modernize the line's ships and give them the types of features found on the line's newest ship, Celebrity Edge.

The complete story appeared in the February 12 edition of Cruise News Daily.