What is your favorite cruise line?

Tom Cruise: “You’ve lost that lovin’ feeling…”, song from Top Gun.

Oh you meant – boat cruises— I have only been on Princess and Royal Caribbean. Of the two, RC was better.

Cute :)

My favorite is “I feel the need-the need for speed.” (also Top Gun)

I’m not wealthy enough to have a favorite boating cruise company :)

Celebrity is my favorite followed by Holland America. Royal Caribbean is also a good Line. I have been on all three. the worst in my opinion was Carnival. It was my one time mistake.

As of last week: Lewis R. French

Carnival is sub-par but it’s a cheap vacation, done a few of those coupled with some extra fishing/beach days. We had a wonderful Royal Caribbean cruise in Hawaii, that was top notch and one helluva bargain for what we got out of it. BTW, it’s pretty easy to smuggle in liquor to a Carnival cruise.

We are Royal Caribbean cruisers almost exclusively, partly because we have gotten up there in cruise points and get quite a few freebees and partly because the only other cruise line out of local ports was Carnival.
I understand that Carnival has gotten better over the years but it is still geared toward a younger age set and I am no longer in their particular demographic.

RC gives us a good cruise, at a good price, with good rooms and good service. Their food quality has decreased somewhat in the last couple of years but is still better than Carnival from what I have been told by other passengers. Ports, Eh! they all go to pretty much the same place.

I have heard some good things about Holland America from others.

Celebrity is sister line of RC and is, basically the next step up. Whereas Princess is the equivalent for Carnival (although the own a bunch of other like P&O and Costa).

Speaking of which, my business partner says he would not step foot on another Costa Cruise ship no matter what he was offered. FWIW

Princess is my favorite.

”Show me the money!!”

I like Holland America, but I have never had the opportunity to cruise Celebrity and I hear it is very nice. I took Royal Carribean once many years ago and it was ok. I wasn’t blown away and I wasn’t deterred from taking it again. Now they have more mega ships, I’m not sure if I would like that?

I’ve just been perusing last minute deal out of the port where I live and most are on Carnival. I know Carnival is known for younger passengers and lots of drinking (not really my thing) although out of FL sometimes you get a lot of retires also. Anyway, I probably will give a long weekend a try, because it is so cheap. I can cruise for 4 nights for about $180 per person in an inside room or $220 with a window. If I were flying in from somewhere else I probably never would have even given Carmival a consideration. Just the meals is worth that for a quick get away.

I’m glad you asked this question, because I want cruise Panama Canal and since it is a longer cruise I care about the accommodations.

I’m also curious about river cruising, so hopefully some who answer has some feedback on that.

Did you love Alaska? It was one of my favorite cruises to date.

I did a Princess Cruise to Alaska. It was fine. I can’t compare to others, though.

@JLeslie I too have no desire to be on a ship that can hold 6000 passengers. It is bad enough getting ashore on a smaller vessel without having to fight 3–4 times the number of folks wanting to go ashore.

I’ve seen those huge ships docking at Key West. Like floating apartment buildings. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. I’ve also seen lines of people waiting for hours in Bar Harbor to go on zodiacs back to their cruise ship. Not for me.

What a FLAKESTER

I loved that episode.

Interestingly, I heard an interview where they talked about how they managed to get it past the censors and the legal DEPT.

They were batting around different ideas when one of them asked “well, what if he is in a literal clothes closet and refuses to leave.? Can we do that?”

And they got the go-ahead for it.

Too funny for words hearing Stan complaining to his
parents “he’s in my closet and
he won’t come out ! !”

@rojo it’s actually not that bad, people are pretty evenly spread out and those ships are so huge you could do pretty much anything and not have to wait in a line. I went to the movies a couple of times on one of my cruises and there were only 2–3 other people in the full sized theater.

Do these huge ships go to ports where they have to tender people ashore or only go where they can pull up to a dock? Anyone?

@rojo In some ports, they have to tender people ashore. Not all. I’ve seen ughe ships dock in Key West but have to ferry people in zodiacs in Bar Harbor.

Now that would suck. 5000 people wanting on and off and tenders that carry 50 or so at a time.

@rojo When we are in Bar Harbor (not on a cruise) we saw a line of people, hundreds of them, waiting for the tenders to take them back to a ship. I agree – kind of spoils the trip.

And Edit of my last post: “huge” not “ughe”

I know what you mean, @janbb. When we were going ashore from the Lewis R. French at Calderwood Island in Penobscot Bay it took three full boatloads to ferry us all ashore. (That is, the same boat on three successive trips.)

But that was okay with those of us left to wait on the ship, since we had the three-person slingshot and some leftover gluten-free cornbread muffins from breakfast, with which we mounted a concerted attack on each of the first two trips.