MARCH 2020 PAGE 34 Just back from: CELEBRITY APEX


Ship tour with the CEO as a guide


Stateroom


Pool deck on Celebrity Aprx, set to launch in April


The race to Apex and April launch


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elcome aboard Celebrity Apex, Celeb-


rity Cruise’s second state of the art Edge class bil- lion dollar ship .designed entirely in 3D.


She will be completed on March 2nd and will also be Celebrity’s first


ship to be launched in the UK in 10 years. With a tonnage


of


129,500 she supports a crew of 1,319 from 69 countries and accommo- dates 2,910 guests in her 1,467 staterooms.


Reshma Sauhani, the founder and CEO of


Girls Who Code, the international nonprofit organisation working to close the gender gap in technology, is the newly crowned Godmother of Apex.


Travel Extra’s Aileen C. O’Reilly was invited to don her hard hat and


join the world’s travel media for a sneak peek at Apex before she leaves her current home in the Chantiers de L’Atlan- tique shipyard in Nantes, France where an army of 9,000 has built her over the past 18 months.


Aileen O’Reilly and Richard Fain


Celebrity CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo , Aileen O’Reilly


The bridge


Into the jaws and the group


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