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	Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Celebrity Cruises Page 1: Miami - 18th-21st April 2012 Ship Name: CELEBRITY ECLIPSE - Ship type: Passenger/Cruise - Year of Build: 2010 IMO Ship No: 9404314 - Gross Tonnage: 122,000 - Deadweight 9,500 Each image links to a larger copy which opens in a new window/tab This page is still under construction
	This page is one of a series showing images from a 13 night transatlantic positioning cruise on Celebrity Eclipse in April 2012 from Miami to Southampton. Celebrity Eclipse is a Solstice-class cruise ship, operated by Celebrity Cruises. She is the sister ship of Celebrity Solstice and Celebrity Equinox, which entered service in November 2008 and July 2009, respectively. Celebrity Eclipse measures 122,000 gross tons and carries 2,852 passengers (double occupancy) plus crew. Two further ships Celebrity Silhouette (Meyer yard number 679) and Celebrity Reflection (Meyer yard number 691) were delivered in 2011 and 2012. Celebrity Eclipse sailed from Southampton during Summer 2010 offering itineraries in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. She returned to sailing from Southampton in Summers 2011 and 2102, sailing from Miami in the winters. In response to the shutdown of UK airspace due to the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, the newly completed Celebrity Eclipse was used to rescue 2000 British tourists stranded in Spain as "an act of goodwill" by the owners. The ship departed from Southampton for Bilbao on April 21, and returned on April 23. Celebrity Eclipse official maiden voyage was on April 29, 2010, departing Southampton to Cobh, Ireland.

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The Fontainebleau Miami Beach or the Fontainebleau Hotel is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels on Miami Beach. Opened in 1954 and designed by Morris Lapidus, it was considered the most luxurious hotel on Miami Beach, and is thought to be the most significant building of Lapidus' career. The Fontainebleau Miami Beach is situated on oceanfront Collins Avenue in the heart of Millionaire's Row and is currently owned by Fontainebleau Resorts. Fronting the Atlantic Ocean, the 1504-room resort’s most distinguishing features include two new towers; 12 restaurants and bars; a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) spa with mineral-rich water therapies and co-ed swimming pools; and oceanfront poolscape featuring a free-form pool shaped as a re-interpretation of Lapidus’ signature bow-tie design. The local pronunciation of the hotel's name is the Americanized "fountain blue" rather than the French pronunciation of the word.^[

The Miami Metromover is a free mass transit automated people mover train system operated by Miami-Dade Transit in Miami, Florida, United States. Metromover serves Downtown Miami, Brickell, Park West and Omni neighbourhoods. Metromover connects directly with Metrorail at Government Center and Brickell stations. It originally began service to the Downtown/Inner Loop on April 17, 1986, and was later expanded with the Omni and Brickell Loop extensions on May 26, 1994.

The Metromover serves primarily as a fast and easy way to travel within the greater Downtown Miami neighbourhoods. The system is composed of three loops and 21 stations. The stations are located approximately two blocks away from each other, and connect near all major buildings and places in Downtown. Today, the Metromover serves as a vital part of Downtown life, and with the rapid population growth in Downtown, has grown quickly in usage and popularity. It has nearly doubled in ridership in the last decade, growing from 14,952 passengers per day in 1999 to 31,100 by October 2011. Out of only three downtown people movers in the United States, the other two being the Jacksonville Skyway and the Detroit People Mover, the Metromover is by far the most successful, the only completed system of the three, and considered to be a catalyst for downtown development.

Metromover currently uses a fleet of 17 Adtranz C-100 vehicles, built by Adtranz predecessor AEG-Westinghouse in 1992, and 12 Bombardier Innovia APM 100 vehicles that were delivered during the summer and fall of 2008. These newer vehicles replaced the first 12 C-100 cars which were built by Westinghouse Electric in 1984, and include a more aerodynamic design, as well as an onboard CCTV system.Deliveries of an additional 17 cars from Bombardier Transportation began in July 2010. (ref: Wikipedia)