Ship size - what do you prefer?

[Joanandjoe]

The thread on the new, huge ship, Liberty of the Seas, has produced comments ranging from "the bigger, the better" to "Ugh, I would't go near such a monster". This poll asks which size you prefer. Obviously, there are Crazies who like any size, as long as they can cruise on the ship.

Which size do you prefer?

It's clear from our comments that we prefer small ships. Four of our cruises had 230 (Wind Surf), 295 (Wind Surf), 450 (Regent 7 Seas Navigator), and 130 PAX (Avalon Poetry), and we loved all four small ship sailings. We suspect that we're very much in the minority: why else would the cruise lines build such big ships?

(We tried to set this set this up as a poll, with 6 choices, but the poll did not appear. We may need to try again. Jason, can you help? The 6 choices were 3,000 +, 2250-3000, 1500-2250, 750-1500, under 750, and any size is OK.)

[Gregswife]

Hi Joe. The Fantasy is the smallest ship we have been on and I believe it is around 78,000 tons. The biggest thusfar is the Destiny and Victory at 101,000 tons. We are booked on the Conquest which is 110,000. I think I prefer the bigger ships, but that is mainly because I am afraid I would feel too much movement on a smaller ship.

[mercedes]

My first cruise was on Carnival Holiday which is 46,000 tons. To me it seemed huge, but it wasn’t really, compared to the Carnival Liberty that I sailed on last year at 110,000 tons. I prefer larger ships, I feel much safer.

[jtutak]

I'm booked on the Liberty of the Seas and cannot wait for the Genesis Class.

[frostyboy64]

the larger the beter sometimes i like to stay onboard and do things and on larger ships

there are allways things going on to do

[hazelson]

The Spirit Class on Carnival is my fav so far - just the right size - not big enought to confuse but big enough not to feel crowded.

[Joanandjoe]

I was finally able to post this as a poll; so let's close this thread and move our responses to the poll thread.