While there are many dining options onboard the Celebrity Solstice, we chose to stick to the included options. Overall the food here was pretty decent, but expect huge crowds at the buffet. The space is divided up into two floors the top floor is used for lunch as well as dinner guests in Concierge Class or higher, the bottom floor is used for breakfast and all other guests during dinner service. There was a lengthy line to get into the dining room the first two nights as staff escorts each party to their assigned table while later in the cruise, everyone could just seat themselves.
On our seven night cruise, we dined here four times for dinner some nights there was a conflict with activities out in port. Dining times are spilt into early PM and late PM and we chose the early option to better accommodate our children. Just be sure to check your assigned time when you get onboard as for some reason we got bumped to late dining despite being confirmed for early dining when we booked. If you need to change your time on the day of departure after first getting onboard the ship, you can do so at the Grand Epernay not at the customer service desk.
Our assigned dinner table was , with Peter and Grace as our wait staff. They did an excellent job of getting to know us and made us feel at home. There is decent variety here at dinner each night, with some options remaining the same while others were on rotation. The starters listed in the first column changed each night while the starters in the second column such as the excellent French onion soup could be ordered every night. Similarly, the entrees in the first column changed nightly and the classics in the second column remained through each menu.
It would have been nice if they had a little more variety in the cocktails in general on the ship. The kids menu remained the same each day. Of course, your children are not bound to it and could certainly order an appetizer from the kids menu and an entree from the adult menu as eight-year-old Alex did. Or you could order two entrees from the kids menu if you want to go that route as four-year-old Char did.
Dinner starts with a variety of breads that are brought to the table. The bread could have been a bit warmer, but it was still well-received. While we did try many of the starters, overall we felt the French onion soup was the best overall. It has that delicious combination of cheese, broth, sherry, and onions. The dinner entrees were overall pretty good.
