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So far I have been on a couple dozen cruises over the past 30 years sailing all over the Western, Eastern & Southern Caribbean with family & friends, and sometimes I actually cruise ALL BY MYSELF!!!… (Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Disney Wonder, Disney Dream, Disney Magic, Celebrity Cruise)… They are "ALL" so fun, exciting & relaxing and the food is fabulous, so ZERO complaints on any of them,,,, Yes, I also really enjoy all the many Islands too…. My next cruises will be to Alaska, Hawaii & the Mediterranean, and a 6 month AROUND-THE-WORLD cruise… Any ladies want to go with me?
I know someone who worked for Celebrity ….will NEVER give them a dime.
Only gone on carnival and celebrity. After getting off the celebrity line I booked two more cruises.
I’ve been watching your channel for a long time and I’ve never hear you mention Fred Olsen, the first and best cruise line I’ve been on. Small ships, reasonable prices and a wonderful experience.
I’ve been on two princess cruises and one celebrity and a handful of other luxury cruises and I would take princess over celebrity any day. In fact I don’t think I’ll ever do a celebrity cruise again. They’ve created a class system on board and if you haven’t paid to be in the highest class you are constantly reminded and treated like a second class passenger. They hound you every day to try to get you to upgrade and you are constantly being shown what you’re missing out on. I never felt like that on a princess cruise and that makes a huge difference in your vacation.
Our cruise on Holland America was also very disappointing. Our suite was just awful – expensive, noisy and uncomfortable.
We have cruised on Celebrity many times and loved all of the cruises – they were super for the family – we then cruised on Norwegian and was not at all impressed unfortunately – however Seabourn was simply wonderful and I highly recommend their ships – it was the most amazing experience – the ships, the service, the suites, the food, the entertainment, the ports we visited and the overall experience on our Seabourn cruises were outstanding. 6 Stars and more!
I never knew there were so many cruise ships
Virgin seems to stand out to me the last category would be more my style but sadly that's more in the price range of old money 😂 so virgin will work for now 😂
I'm so glad that you're highlighting Holland America! I have had incredible experiences with this line.
I've watched many cruise reviews but you are the best
So much work went into this video. Great job, very informative.
The Royal Caribbean by far has much better entertainment, the Norwegian, by yards!
I just recently returned from an 11 day cruise from New York City on the jam. Everybody was complaining about the Norwegian cruise line everybody. The entertainment sucked. It was so boring. I'm sorry I keep making post but Norwegian cruise line. I cannot believe that he picked. This is number one lol they suck.
I love large cruise ships. I love a lot of activities. I love natural beauty the thing that struck me about Norwegian. They had no promenade deck, after being spoiled on my first cruise, which I took on adventure of the seas when it first came out, I was amazed at the promenade deck. When I went to Norwegian, I was looking for such a promenade deck. Also found was a little floors. There was no major drag strip. So boring
Entertainment? I don't know every Norwegian cruise I took a terrible entertainment. My wife made the comment that it was like high school actors. Nothing like it completely. They had some good musicians, but the musicians are not that great either the bands are equivalent to high school bands . In my opinion, Norwegian just tries to save money, and not hire the best of the best.
I am so surprised that he picked Norwegian as his number 1 cruise line. They nickel and dime you for everything. They are so boring when they are at say with lack of entertainment it's just sitting around all they found myself doing was smoking cigars in the cigar lounge, it was so boring. But maybe this gentleman likes a more low-key quiet type of cruise. ROYAL CARRIBEAN is amazing they have parades through the promenade deck, Central Park just amazing things and activities to do Norwegian cruise line. In my opinion. Just sucks!
Norwegian cruise line is very cheap with their entertainment. He said at the pool they have the DJ for a couple hours and they bring him away. They have the band for a couple hours and they bring them away very cheap on entertainment. I don't know why people think Norwegian cruise line is so good. I booked a stay in the Haven. It was OK but the quality of service was terrible.
If you like boring sitting around being nickel and dime, crappy food, pick Norwegian cruise lines, not to mention poor quality service
I'm sorry I have cruised on a messy, carnival celebrity, royal Caribbean Norwegian, cruise lines, princess, your name it. I believe ROYAL CARRIBEAN gives all of the other cruise lines 52 swift kick in the ass. To me, Norwegian, cruise line nickel, and dime you they are boring. No entertainment or quality of entertainment sucks
Any suggestions for people who are limited on dates they can travel? My wife works for a school district so only times are the times where fares are more costly. Any idea to help mitigate this or are we just SOL?
The smaller the ship the higher the price, because your not competing with thousands of noisy people. But I'll take the smaller luxury cruise ships before I take a cruise on those big high energy, overcrowded ones.
Why is Viking never mentioned? We love them! An older crowd – no one under 18, great food, great ports, great informative lectures and lots of quiet space. A library and no slides, rock climbing or big shows.
I am going in the haven in 30 days
Norwegian cruise line has awesome employees that make the cruise fun
Too long of a video, can someone summarize the Cruise Company in each category?
Ty for a wonderful review. Im starting to cruise again after COVID. Ive learned so much from your presentations. I hate doing research but it is invaluable and really teaches me so much.
As Australians, we agree with you concerning Costa. Although we have many Italians in Oz it was a bit much being on such an Italian ship! Asia cruise Jan 2020.
Norwegian ? NiCkle & Dime cruise line . The worst !
We're just home from Panama Canal on Holland America Eurodam.
Everything about it was sub-par.
The Retreat attendants brought us the wrong food every day. There was a slight language barrier, but I really felt they just didn't know what the menu items were. Also, I paid $500 for a quiet place to "Retreat" to, and people were just walking through all day, and the crew didn't stop them.
The bars were out of half the alcohol options the very first day.
The shops didn't have basic needs, like Advil.
The Lido only had 3 stations open, and served pretty much the same food every night.
We quit going to the main dinning room because service was 2 1/2 hours every night. They were also allowing people with shorts every night, which HAL hasn't in the past.
Games in the Crowd Nest we're missing pieces.
Cartagena Old City walk through, we got a bun, with 1 slice of turkey and a packet of mustard, and no water for a 7 hour excursion.
Hi Gary,
I have been on Norwegian twice. The first was horribly bad, they gave us a credit of $700 per person on an $1100 fare. We used the credit on a second cruise, and it fell horribly short again. I hear they are a good line, but they are on my never sail again list.