Six-Star Commitment - From the moment you step on board, you will experience Crystal Cruises' dedication to making your cruise a perfect one. Six-Star Commitment means each instant must be memorable. Think of the farthest corners of the world connected by a smooth and shining sea. Imagine that a floating luxury resort, filled with everything you ever could desire, is waiting to carry you on the journey of your dreams. At Crystal Cruises, they take pride in navigating that magical highway of the sea, transporting you to the best the world has to offer. Your days and nights on a Crystal cruise are effortless and carefree. You will revel in a wealth of time, a luxurious sense of leisure and ease; your hours are your own, to spend as you see fit. Released from the pressure of schedules and routines, you are free to play, to rest, to mingle and relax - to allow for the luxury of serendipity. Like the open sea, each day is limitless. You can chart a course, then change it at your whim. Let possibility fill the sails of your imagination and see what magic might appear. Crystal Cruises gives you space to stretch out and explore. There are broad, sunny decks to stroll and inviting corners to settle into. There are cozy nooks where you can be alone. You can join a spellbound audience at an exciting Broadway-style show or get together with a few new friends over a frothy cappuccino. Your stateroom is a comforting place to call your own, where you can snuggle in and dream. With skilled and practiced sleight-of-hand, chefs prepare the finest cuisine from around the world. Guests may begin a cruise alone, but within days they find themselves greeting new-found friends. There is a spirit of cheerfulness and good humor to be found wherever you are on the ship. Guests say that’s the real magic of a Crystal cruise. There’s no mystery to it; it’s simply a commitment to heartfelt service that creates an atmosphere of enchantment, every day.

Cuisine from Celebrity Restauranteurs

All ships feature a tempting variety of dining options, from the early-bird breakfast through the dinner hour and into the late evenings.

Crystal Dining Room
The menu offers an extensive selection of regionally inspired cuisine prepared in the classical European tradition. The array of tantalizing options includes our "Lighter Fare" low-sodium, low-carb and low-cholesterol selections and vegetarian offerings. The Crystal Dining Room offers open seating for breakfast and lunch, and classic main or late seating for dinner. Requests for classic main or late seating and table preferences must be submitted through your travel agent when reserving your cruise. Every effort is made to honor requests.

Speciality Restaurants
Crystal Cruises provides alternative specialty restaurants to enhance the evening dining options and provide the opportunity to enjoy a new culinary environment. Prego, on all ships, features traditional Italian cuisine plus signature dishes from Piero Selvaggio, owner of famed Valentino restaurants in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Kyoto, on Crystal Harmony, offers inventive Japanese cuisine and sushi specialties. Jade Garden, on Crystal Symphony, is a culinary crossroads of Asia; dishes are inspired by the exotic array of traditions and ingredients of the Orient. Specialty dishes from Wolfgang Puck's Chinois restaurant are offered as well. Silk Road and The Sushi Bar, on Crystal Serenity, feature the world-renowned cuisine of master chef Nobu Matsuhisa. He has created an innovative menu of classically styled Japanese food with distinctive Peruvian and European influences. Reservations are required in these specialty restaurants and are accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis. Approximate dining hours for each restaurant are 6:00pm to 10:00pm.

Lido Cafe
This is a buffet-style, indoor/outdoor venue for breakfast and lunch featuring a selection of exotic fruit, fresh baked breads and pastries. Breakfast includes made-to-order omelettes, waffles and pancakes to your liking, and other morning favorites. Lunch offers made-to-order pastas and salads, a delicious selection of our famous soups, carved meats, fresh catches of the day and a tempting array of sumptuous desserts, including sugar-free options.

Deck Buffets
You can also enjoy the award-winning special buffets which transform the poolside deck into another world. Asia Caf� features a chic red-and-black motif serving an enticing selection of dishes from all corners of the Orient. The American Classic features home-style cooking from across the U.S. Nuevo Latino offers the unique cuisine from South of the Border. Cuisine of the Sun serves a tempting feast of Mediterranean specialties. These and other innovative buffets make afternoon dining an anticipated event.

The Bistro
The popular Parisian-style coffee bar and caf� is a favorite meeting place. Espresso, caffe latte and cappuccino are served in exclusive Bistro Collection of porcelain, created by celebrated artist Guy Buffet. Light snacks are served throughout the day, ranging from bagels, smoked salmon, fresh pastries and fruit in the morning to a selection of international cheeses, charcuterie, pastries and other delicacies in the afternoon.

Trident Grill and Ice-Cream Bar
This is not your average grill. Here you can find classic American fare such as hamburgers, cheeseburgers, veggie and chicken burgers, hot dogs and tuna melts. There are also daily special wrap sandwiches and gourmet pizzas, and a Late-Risers Breakfast is available between the hours of 10 am and 11:30 am around the Neptune Pool. The Ice Cream Bar features a wide variety of ice creams, nonfat frozen yogurt and sherbets, with tempting toppings, fresh berries and home-baked cookies.

Casual Dining
On select evenings during your cruise, the Trident Bar & Grill extends its hours and offers a special dining setup around the Neptune Pool, with unique specialty buffet items in a relaxed, comfortable ambiance; dress is casual. And on Crystal Serenity, there is also Tastes for Healthy alternative breakfast choices and sophisticated comfort food for lunch and dinner.

Afternoon Tea
This is a special event at Crystal Cruises. Each afternoon tea service presents a selection of savories and sweets served in the sunlit charm of the Palm Court. Mozart Tea is a visit to 18th-century Vienna as you are greeted by staff dressed in velvets and brocades and are tempted by a selection of the finest Austrian cakes and pastries. English Colonial Tea offers a taste of tradition, complete with scones and clotted cream, finger sandwiches and assorted sweets. The American Tea is a Crystal creation paying tribute to the classics of the American summertime.

Cocktail Hour
A selection of hot and cold hors d'oeuvres is served in the various bars and lounges every evening before dinner.

Corkage Fee
If you choose to enjoy wines that you have purchased ashore during your cruise, or wines brought from home, a nominal corkage fee will be charged.

Late Night Hors D'Oeuvres
Snacks are served in selected bars and lounges during the late-night bar hours.

Room Service
Complimentary Room Service is available 24-hours a day from the Room Service menu. Room Service may also be ordered from the Crystal Dining Room menu during regular dining hours.

What to Wear

Each evening on a Crystal cruise has a specific dress code, which applies to all public areas of the ship after 6:00 pm. Guests find that the occasional formal evenings create a special atmosphere in contrast to the other more informal evenings on board. The three codes of attire are: casual, informal and formal. Typically, 10- to 14-day cruises have three formal nights. The number of informal nights is usually based on the number of days at sea, and casual nights are based on days in port.

Formal Evening Attire - An evening dress and gowns of fashionable length for ladies, and a tuxedo, dinner jacket or dark suit and tie for gentlemen is recommended.

Informal Evening Attire - For ladies, evening dresses, cocktail dresses or pantsuits are suitable. For gentlemen, a sport coat and slacks are suggested; ties are optional.

Casual Evening Attire - On casual evenings, a more relaxed attire is accepted such as casual dresses and pantsuits for ladies, and sport shirt and slacks for gentlemen. Ties and jackets are not required.

Tipping Info

Junior Activities Programme

Crystal Serenity

At 68,000 tons and capable of serving 1,080 guests, Crystal Serenity-is the largest ship in the Crystal fleet. However, like her sister ships, she still maintains one of the highest space-per-guest ratios at sea, so you'll never feel crowded. Featuring many of the same popular public spaces as Crystal Harmony and Crystal Symphony, Crystal Serenity also serves up innovation in the form of new dining venues like Tastes, Silk Road and The Sushi Bar, The Studio, and 85% of staterooms with private verandahs.

Serenity Complete Refurbishment

Just completed at the end of May11 after a round-the-clock remodel at Germany’s Blohm + Voss shipyard, the dry dock was the company’s longest ever. All 535 staterooms, retail centers, outdoor pool deck, corridors and other spaces received a dazzling facelift, in addition to general sprucing of the entire outside and inside of the vessel. “In the past year and a half, we have invested well over $50 million in our ships,” says Crystal Cruises’ President Gregg Michel.  “The striking new spaces serve as a stunning backdrop to the incomparable service and choices that always characterize a Crystal vacation.” Interior designer, Keith Rushbrook, principal at the Toronto-based II BY IV Design Associates summarizes the vision:  “We wanted modern classic elegance.  We wanted Fifth Avenue – crème de la crème New York-inspired living and retail spaces that people love and look forward to spending time in.”

Sophisticated Stateroom Remodel
All of Crystal Serenity’s luxury accommodations received new appointments. While Crystal Penthouses were refreshed with new soft goods, Deluxe Staterooms, Penthouses, and Penthouse Suites were completely transformed with new, floor-to-ceiling tufted headboards, bedside cabinets, sofas, curtains, pillows and custom carpets in contemporary lines and classic stone, silk, velvet, leather and crisp linen textures. The new sofas also offer more third berths – a nice feature for Crystal’s growing family clientele. Blu-ray players and flat-screen televisions were added, and new modern lighting features, plus an electronic “do not disturb” and doorbell system throughout the ship, allow guests greater personalization of their chic accommodations.

Remarkable Retail Space Re-Do
The Apropos boutique was redesigned into three dramatic shopping spaces, against a backdrop of rich Zebrano wood and herringbone rosewood, arresting black-plum-magenta carpeting and tufted leather seating. Massive sculptural aluminum screens graphically pop against gray smoked glass walls. A new area is dedicated to Christian Dior cosmetics. The Dior shop is exclusive to Crystal and is the largest of its kind that isn’t land-based. 
Not be outshone, the Facets fine jewelry store also received a new, private sales area and a new, overall look mirroring a jewelry box, with mother-of-pearl feature wall and beveled chrome vitrines.

Perfectly Posh Pool Deck
Guests can now lounge poolside on bright lime green, azure and mango sofas , lounge chairs, and circular pod beds, a la those recently added to Crystal Symphony’s pool area.

Mood Lighting and Retouched Passageways 
Lighting played a major role in the redesign. Dramatic new mood lighting enhances the romance of spaces, showcases the drama of the headboards, and warms the ship corridors, which also received new, custom carpeting on the floors and engaging art work on newly-textured walls. Thoughtful attention was given to conservation as well as style. “We were looking to balance the luxurious interiors of Crystal Serenity with saving energy,” says Nick Hogget of DPA Lighting Consultants.  “Like the Crystal product, even the lighting provides the guest with choices.  We wanted to make sure the guest has a wonderful experience in all the different spaces.”

Still to come…
Like all remodeling projects, not all materials arrived on schedule. By end of June, the spacious Penthouse and Penthouse Suite verandahs will sport new furnishings and the stateroom design will be augmented with decorative coverlets.  Silk Road will also unveil new carpets and fabrics.

Giving to Those in Need
Furnishings, electronics, and accessories removed from Crystal Serenity were donated to needy communities around the world.  Donations began during the ship’s final, pre-dry dock voyage up the western coast of Africa when bedspreads were donated to Senegal during the ship’s call there.  An extensive donation plan was instituted in Hamburg, with hundreds of sofas and televisions loaded onto eight 40-foot containers, and shipped to the Salvation Army in New Jersey. “We not only delivered a show-stopping new look for our guests’ home-away-from-home, we delivered much-needed goods to those less fortunate,” says Crystal Cruises’ President, Gregg Michel.