Royal or Whaletail?

Shaunna · June 8, 2010

Hi!

I've only done two and one was with each. I did prefer RCI. That's not to say that Carnival was all that bad but it seemed to have a younger crowd. That could have been my imagination though. I had a wonderful time aside of being a little under the weather.

I love all your cruise clocks.. also welcome to the forums!

Shaunna

sailinglisa · June 9, 2010

20 cruises under my belt. 1 with Premier (defunct), 7 Princess, 4 Carnival, 3 Celebrity and 5 Royal Caribbean. I am NOT loyal to any cruise line. I love Princess........my next two scheduled cruises are with Royal Caribbean. There are differences between the cruise lines - and it comes down to personal taste. Carnival is really upbeat and fun, Royal and Princess are a lot of fun but the ships are more elegant. Celebrity is a bit stuffy with beautiful ships and pools - I like them but they are not my first choice. Premier no longer exists. I want to try HAL and Crystal in the future. I have no desire to try NCL as I am really not a freestyle type of person - I like having at least ONE thing during the day that is fixed (dining on most cruise lines), but I will do alternative dining. I guess I have to say that in MY mind the lines rank this way: 1 - tie with Princess and RCCL; 2 - Carnival; 3 - Celebrity.

sailinglisa · June 9, 2010

coloradocruisers wrote...

BTW, I'd like to try the Starship Enterprise. How'd your TA arrange that?

Yeah - how did you manage that one?!?!?!

DebbieandJerry · June 9, 2010

We just love to cruise and pretty much go with what we can afford. Each of the lines that we have been on (RCCL, NCL, Celebrity, Carnival, Princess) have something special to offer. As I posted above, we pretty much let price and itinerary set the tone and then we go from there

JohnG · June 16, 2010

Of 53 cruises to date, 15 have been on Carnival and we've had some of our best meals and shows aboard Carnival. Royal has nice physical plants on their ships, but hardly ever serves lobster. Just was on a 12 day cruise to the Baltic on Royal and didn't have lobster offered even once. Carnival has it at least one night, even on 2 night cruises to nowhere. But I've never had a bad cruise on any line. Gotta admit, the Diamond benefits on Royal are superb.

JohnG · June 16, 2010

Of 53 cruises to date, 15 have been on Carnival and we've had some of our best meals and shows aboard Carnival. Royal has nice physical plants on their ships, but hardly ever serves lobster. Just was on a 12 day cruise to the Baltic on Royal and didn't have lobster offered even once. Carnival has it at least one night, even on 2 night cruises to nowhere. But I've never had a bad cruise on any line. Gotta admit, the Diamond benefits on Royal are superb.