Yes. We feel exactly the same way. We have been going on HA for over 20 years. My father was a travel agent and for years said it was the way to go. I always poo-pooed it thinking it was a bunch of drunk people with Kathy Lee Gifford singing at a piano. Then for his 70th Birthday, he took the family on a Holland America Cruise ... we loved it and have been going couple of times a year ever since.
Not the sea going meat market that those other lines are, in my honest opinion.
Try Sandals, Secrets or Couples. You’ll never do a cruise ship again