Critic
The $1 Billion Celebrity Edge Has Gone Overboard Wooing Millennials
Want to see a cruise ship try too hard? Give it a Magic Carpet.
Illustration: Bratislav Milenkovic
To open the door to your stateroom on the Celebrity Edge, you use your phone. When you eat dinner on Deck 4 at Le Grand Bistro, miniature cartoon chefs are projected on your plate in 3D. The top half of a wall-size window in your Kelly Hoppen-designed room lowers at the touch of a button, opening your space broadly to the sea breezes.
All the neat tricks on the 16-deck, 2,918-passenger vessel might have you considering yourself the world’s coolest cruiser. It can also leave you feeling like a fish out of water.