Celebrity Cruises’ new ship aims to give it an ‘Edge’ in the industry
The luxurious Celebrity Edge has outward-facing cabins with floor-to-ceiling glass walls to help make its 2,918 passengers feel closely connected to the sea
Celebrity Edge is not just another new ship for Celebrity Cruises.
The 2,918-passenger vessel – scheduled to sail with paying passengers for the first time on Saturday – was designed to be transformational for the brand, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, the company’s president and CEO, said.
“We wanted to really catapult [Celebrity] forward with this new design,” Lutoff-Perlo told USA TODAY during in an exclusive interview held in the ship’s soaring Grand Plaza.
The French-made Edge, which is making its debut in Florida’s Port Everglades, is the prototype for a new class of vessel that will transform not only the cruise line but the industry, too, Lutoff-Perlo said.
Celebrity already has ordered four of the ships to roll out between now and 2022.
The company now operates nine large ships, not including Edge, and three small vessels in the Galapagos.
“We believe there will be a lot of people talking about it,” she said.
First look at Celebrity Edge
Offering a striking profile when seen from a distance, Edge boasts outward-facing cabins that are fronted with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling glass – a new concept for ocean cruising made possible by redesigning the internal architecture of the ship.