In my experience, the ship matters more than the cruise company. One of my best cruises was on a Royal Caribbean ship, and my worst cruise was on Royal Caribbean ship Monarch of the Seas. It was a small ship, but always long line to get seated in dining room. Oasis of the seas sailed with 6000+ passengers, and it was the least crowded ship I have sailed on. May be because there are so many dining rooms and cages on the ship, there are no lines. The bigger RCCL ships usually have ice skating shows which I can’t get enough of.
Not cages 😂
Cafe’s. Thank you autocorrect 🙄
Back in the Nineties, we had a couple as friends who did a lot of cruises, and they said Royal Caribbean was the best.
We ended up going on two cruises with them, and had a blast. The first one was a 10 day cruise aboard the Nordic Prince (now scrapped) and it was the best.
We don’t go on cruises anymore, those ones that carry 6,000 passengers seem completely insane to me. I was in the Navy on a ship that had 5,000 crew, and that was enough for me.
We switched to going on sailboat voyages with friends that included some with a lot of sailing experience, and those were the best vacations in my life. (the sailboats were 42’ catamarans out of various places around the Caribbean.
Nothing like them. Just wow.
I thank all of you for your insight. I will go through these with my wife.
A new one was MSC Seascape. One I noticed all of you staying away from was Carnival.
This is good stuff!