Davistigers
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 18, 2010
WARNING I think we have "Cruise Fever" is there a cure?? After 5 wonderful DCL cruises, we tried a Carnival Mexican Rivera cruise in 2017, on one one of the old, huge rust spots on the cabin windows "70's Vegas styled" smaller ships they have doing that 3-4 day itinerary. We did not like it and let them know....crickets from Carnival of course. We are cruising on the Wonder to Mexico in April 2019 and looking for other ideas/itineraries/lower prices/new cruise experiences. We think we will try Princess, NCL,RCI again and others in the coming years. We are looking forward to the new Disney ships and itineraries, but they are years away right now, and the prices may be too high for us, got to wait and see.
After studying and doing more research trying to book anyone BUT Carnival, we booked the new gorgeous Carnival Panorama for our next 2 cruises, and are trying to book the Mardi Gras/Horizon, if we can find a time that works. Pictures and reviews of some of the quieter cabins in the Family Harbor area look interesting to us, check it out! We get 1.5 baths (2 showers, 2 sinks only one toilet) so we can all get ready quickly, and a Lounge when the cabin gets tight or if I want to watch something on TV, when Mom and kids want to watch something else. Love the espresso/ice machine idea and quick breakfast and snacks without having to go to the more crowded bigger buffet, especially on a port day. Its many thousands less than DCL, some comparison dates seem close to half of DCL. We will see what our teenager says about the CCL teen O2 club when we get back compared to VIBE.
We LOVE DCL, and have spent the last 13+ years telling family and friends what a great vacation it is for us, especially for those with young children and teens. I just had to early retire from 30 years behind the camera working in Hollywood, and must try and make our vacation dollars go as far as possible. We will post a review after our next Carnival cruise, and if its not as advertised, we will keep looking as we love cruising. Thanks for all your previous posts and encouragement to try something different.
After thinking about it, I think Disney, with so few ships, with 2 getting older everyday, making us wait longer than other cruise lines to announce sailing dates/prices is a mistake on their part, after all DCL trained many of us to book as soon a its announced, to get the price, room and ship we want. For those of us tired of waiting, some of us go ahead and book other cruises while we are waiting to insure we can cruise specific dates, as our kids are in HS and college. Then when we see the price difference, we have a choice.
In closing I hate that the Wonder took away the top public area of the Cove Cafe to use as a concierge lounge, that was one of my favorite spots on our DCL Alaska cruise, heck use a stateroom or other area, not something many of us loved. Disney please ADD things, don't take away things!
After studying and doing more research trying to book anyone BUT Carnival, we booked the new gorgeous Carnival Panorama for our next 2 cruises, and are trying to book the Mardi Gras/Horizon, if we can find a time that works. Pictures and reviews of some of the quieter cabins in the Family Harbor area look interesting to us, check it out! We get 1.5 baths (2 showers, 2 sinks only one toilet) so we can all get ready quickly, and a Lounge when the cabin gets tight or if I want to watch something on TV, when Mom and kids want to watch something else. Love the espresso/ice machine idea and quick breakfast and snacks without having to go to the more crowded bigger buffet, especially on a port day. Its many thousands less than DCL, some comparison dates seem close to half of DCL. We will see what our teenager says about the CCL teen O2 club when we get back compared to VIBE.
We LOVE DCL, and have spent the last 13+ years telling family and friends what a great vacation it is for us, especially for those with young children and teens. I just had to early retire from 30 years behind the camera working in Hollywood, and must try and make our vacation dollars go as far as possible. We will post a review after our next Carnival cruise, and if its not as advertised, we will keep looking as we love cruising. Thanks for all your previous posts and encouragement to try something different.
After thinking about it, I think Disney, with so few ships, with 2 getting older everyday, making us wait longer than other cruise lines to announce sailing dates/prices is a mistake on their part, after all DCL trained many of us to book as soon a its announced, to get the price, room and ship we want. For those of us tired of waiting, some of us go ahead and book other cruises while we are waiting to insure we can cruise specific dates, as our kids are in HS and college. Then when we see the price difference, we have a choice.
In closing I hate that the Wonder took away the top public area of the Cove Cafe to use as a concierge lounge, that was one of my favorite spots on our DCL Alaska cruise, heck use a stateroom or other area, not something many of us loved. Disney please ADD things, don't take away things!
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after prices have gone up of course, and he won’t make a commitment this early either! He just doesn’t get that booking last minute is not usually a good thing! Guess we can wait now and see if there’s a deal, otherwise -as much as I’d love to go- I’m gonna have to say no. Plus not sure I could rearrange my schedule so much after adding a day to my HHN trip in September, have to work sometime!
