Honest Question on Not Liking the Ships

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

But the itineraries for both lines are really varied (at least from an American perspective). Canaries, more interesting Caribbean itins, the Baltic, East Asia (that isn't just Keelung and Naha).

I think that depends on what you've looked at and what you've done. I'm not dissuading you from the two lines you've mentioned, I'm just saying those are absolutely not at all the only lines that do varied cruises including the regions you mentioned although the Baltics is one lines are just getting back to due to its proximity to Russia (we are heavily looking at a Seabourn one for 2027 for example). Seabourn also has been doing the Canaries for a while now, Asia as well (actually almost have done a Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand cruise several times now just hasn't worked out). The other lines do these types of places too. For the Caribbean Seabourn primarily uses Barbados as its home port but their ports are more varied than DCL that's for sure.

Once you branch out you find this is the case in other lines. DCL is so heavy on the Caribbean it's really not worth looking at if you're interested in the world. Probably because I'm not really interested in doing the Caribbean (I've done one years ago when I was a teen) at the moment that I always am looking at cruises that take place elsewhere in the world. For the Caribbean the larger ships (and Virgin) have been utilizing their private islands so their cruises take a hit on varied locations for that region for reason but even if you didn't have private islands DCL is still extremely focused in that region that is creates the same ole same ole.