Club Reports: Blue Bar, Cafe Nation, Horizons Disco (Celestyal Journey)

Not to be confused with Orlando's famed 90's/00's dance club Blue Room, this is Blue Bar onboard cruise ship Celestyal Journey. By now you know that if we’re traveling we like to share entertainment choices in the various cities or ships we’re on. Blue Bar is located on Deck 7 aft.

Not sure if the venue's name was inspired by all the blue furniture or if it was the other way around.

 

It's a beautiful space but just not a lot of patrons last night.

Music trio Esencia (C) was playing mostly Latin tunes.

A surprising number of the ship's entertainment staff are from Cuba including the ship's entire animation team and theater actors.

Cafe Nation is the ship's coffee venue during the day. Located on Deck 7 midship, at night it becomes another entertainment venue.

Much larger attendance here and it would become even more crowded during our visit.

Duo Music Zone (RP) was on stage during our visit.

The large bar stayed busy.

The music ranged from 60's "Stand By Your Man" to 70's such as "We Should Be Dancing" and "September" to 80's such as "Don't You (Forget About Me)".

We typically don't see dancing in cruise ship lounges but the music was good enough to get these two up on the floor.

It was soon after 23:00 so time to head upstairs to Deck 12 forward and Horizons Disco.

Didn't know what to expect but we walked into this!

The ship's resident DJ Yannick (MS) was on duty.

The music the proverbial wedding reception party where so many need to be pleased. We heard EDM, we heard Reggaeton , we heard Russian, we heard Top 40, we heard Bachata, we heard Hip Hop.

Dance floor stayed full though.

Interestingly, DJ played "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) " which is a song we've heard on every European and Middle Eastern cruise we've ever taken but it never gets played on any U.S. cruises. It must be really popular song with Europeans which is primarily who is onboard this ship.

"Engine Engine Number 9, on the New York Transit Line".

The bar staff was having fun.

And a good time was had by all.