What Cruise Line to Take

[TPC]

$5 drinks, no sales tax - includes 16 oz craft beers. Premium well. We tip cash fat, upfront and it comes back in drinks, strong pours and most of all appreciation.
Go to our room and nice, free merch has appeared on the bed as part of that appreciation.

Bartender Craig taught us a 3rd language to converse in Jamaica.
Absofuckinlutely amazing.

Our favorite bars are on Disney.

We've seen the Caribbean and Mexican Rivera enough and tried Alaska, was amazing. We want to do it again.

When Schools in session Disney Ships are mostly adults, no matter only 20% of the cabins are sold to families and 1/3 of the ship is off limits to kids anyway.
Smaller ships have fast elevators galore and always seem close by.

Everywhere you go on the ships inside and out have a excellent view of the ocean.
Super friendly crew, different restaurants with entirely different menus every night.

Ship casinos are unregulated, low odds and bad payouts, single deck dealers are mechanics so we avoid those. None on Diz so don't miss that.

If its a budget cruise you go to the DCL website, don't buy anything but leave your email and click on the cruises you may be interested in.
In time 35% off offers come in the email. We select the cheapest cabin on the cheapest cruise and take the 35% break.

Same experience as people paying 5X more.
We hated Norwegian, Carnival is the Greyhound bus cattle boat of cruising.

 

[dribble]

My last 10 cruises, I get a balcony on the very back of the ship. On Celebrity, they are called Sunset Verandas.

The stern of the ship will always be unobstructed at ports. It also has virtually no wind, while underway.

The negative………. It’s a long friggin walk to the elevators. And I mean loooong! Think the opening scene of the 60’s tv series…….. Get Smart. There are no further cabins than these.

Hot tip - Stop at bar and pick up unopened drinks. Every walk to your cabin should increase your cabin refrigerator by 4 drinks. There is nothing worse than running out of drinks, on your balcony, and realizing that you have to take that long friggin walk to resupply.

I once had a balcony cabin on the rear of the ship. The problem was that the ship sailed out of Galveston and the smoking section was on the top deck in the rear. These asswipes would try and flick their butts into the ocean but they ended up falling on my balcony. I complained to the steward but it never really stopped.

 

[CarolynandBob]

$5 drinks, no sales tax - includes 16 oz craft beers. Premium well. We tip cash fat, upfront and it comes back in drinks, strong pours and most of all appreciation.
Go to our room and nice, free merch has appeared on the bed as part of that appreciation.

Bartender Craig taught us a 3rd language to converse in Jamaica.
Absofuckinlutely amazing.

Our favorite bars are on Disney.

We've seen the Caribbean and Mexican Rivera enough and tried Alaska, was amazing. We want to do it again.

When Schools in session Disney Ships are mostly adults, no matter only 20% of the cabins are sold to families and 1/3 of the ship is off limits to kids anyway.
Smaller ships have fast elevators galore and always seem close by.

Everywhere you go on the ships inside and out have a excellent view of the ocean.
Super friendly crew, different restaurants with entirely different menus every night.

Ship casinos are unregulated, low odds and bad payouts, single deck dealers are mechanics so we avoid those. None on Diz so don't miss that.

If its a budget cruise you go to the DCL website, don't buy anything but leave your email and click on the cruises you may be interested in.
In time 35% off offers come in the email. We select the cheapest cabin on the cheapest cruise and take the 35% break.

Same experience as people paying 5X more.
We hated Norwegian, Carnival is the Greyhound bus cattle boat of cruising.

I do respect your opinions TPC, but I wouldn't go on a disney cruise if it were free.

 

[AZmike]

Here's my .02, I enjoy people watching so I typically chose carnival. With that being said I finally feel like I'm at that age "46" where I want to be around less or no kids when I cruise so I'm looking at trying celebrity or virgin for the first time next year. I would definitely stay away from Princess cruises unless your over 70 and like to go to bed by 8pm. I literally wondered around the ship at like 10 pm looking for an open bar every night. I go to vacations2go.com to look everything up and compare cruises then book direct. You can also try cruise critic for information as well.

 

[RiverDave]

Wife and just booked a 5 day Cabo on the Carnival Firenze, got a rear balcony room, drink package and pre-paid drinks.
Sucks there's a 15 drink limit per day, I can probably double that easily.

It’s funny you brought that up.. lol. Last carnival cruise we did I blew right through my drink package, then found out they won’t sell you drinks if you have the package.. . My wife doesn’t hardly drink, but I blew through hers as well..

Luckily some drunk idiots dropped their drink cards in the bar so I tapped them out for them. lol.

I’m not sure I’d ever buy the drink package again because they limit the drinks.. and who isn’t drinking 20-30 beers on the cruise ship?

RD

 

[dirtslinger2]

It’s funny you brought that up.. lol. Last carnival cruise we did I blew right through my drink package, then found out they won’t sell you drinks if you have the package.. . My wife doesn’t hardly drink, but I blew through hers as well..

Luckily some drunk idiots dropped their drink cards in the bar so I tapped them out for them. lol.

I’m not sure I’d ever buy the drink package again because they limit the drinks.. and who isn’t drinking 20-30 beers on the cruise ship?

RD

I hope that doesn't happen and I'm tapped out at 15 total for an entire day and night on a ship.

Also,
Whats the scoop for sneaking some alcohol on the boat? Looking at what we can bring, it seems a little difficult to smuggle a bottle or 2 on.

 

[Done-it-again]

I hope that doesn't happen and I'm tapped out at 15 total for an entire day and night on a ship.

Also,
Whats the scoop for sneaking some alcohol on the boat? Looking at what we can bring, it seems a little difficult to smuggle a bottle or 2 on.

You can have beer/liquor delivered to your room on embarkment day. But it’s pricy.

You are allowed 1 bottle of wine person to bring with you.

Go on Amazon and there a lot of “liquor smuggling” containers