Celebrity Summit

Celebrity Summit was the third Millennium-class ship, built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire, France, and completed in 2001 at a cost of roughly US$350 million. She was christened by godmother Paulina Rider Wilhelmsen and originally entered service simply as Summit, only later taking the full Celebrity prefix in 2008 when the line standardized its naming across the fleet. Like her sisters, she was a roughly 90,000-gross-ton vessel for about 2,150 guests, built around the class's distinctive turbo-electric COGES power plant and podded propulsion.

Summit shared the Millennium class's early struggles with its azimuthing pods, but she went on to a long and durable career and became one of the more heavily refreshed members of the quartet. Major refits in 2012 and again in 2019 rebuilt substantial portions of the ship, the latter forming part of Celebrity's ambitious 'Revolution' program, which sought to bring the older tonnage closer to the standard set by the new Edge class, with redesigned staterooms, reimagined public spaces, and updated dining.

The ship carried the maritime heritage detailing common to her class, including elegant specialty dining and the airy, glass-forward interiors that defined the premium Celebrity aesthetic. Her modernizations kept her commercially viable in a fleet that was steadily welcoming far newer ships.

Celebrity Summit remains in active service, registered at Valletta, Malta, and has become a mainstay of Celebrity's northeastern U.S. operations. Homeported at Bayonne, New Jersey, and also sailing from San Juan, she runs a varied schedule of Bermuda, Caribbean, and Alaska itineraries, offering a premium alternative for guests boarding close to the major population centers of the American Northeast.