murphy22

My husband and I are planning a Baltic cruise in May, leaving from Copenhagen, and doing the typical route that includes St. Pete. This will be our fifth time to Europe, but our first in this region. We did a Holland America Cruise in Alaska 8 years ago, and a cruise to the Bahamas (either Royal Caribbean or Norwegian, can't remember) about 5 years ago. We are active people who do not sit around. And I am a vegetarian.

 

So, knowing all that, we are looking at the cruises offered in the region. I was initially going to do MSC because it also went to Latvia and Lithuania, but the reviews were horrible. I then looked at HAL, Princess, and Norwegian. Princess seems to be the best, but we can't make the dates work, so it's down to 10 day HAL or Norwegian.

 

My problem? The reviews are all from caribean cruisers - very different! Scant reviews on baltic cruises of these ships that I can find. And the HAL ship they kept saying was going to be dry-docked soon, so I feel like it's a big questions mark now.

 

We were leaning towards HAL, because I saw some not-so-hot reviews for Norwegian, but we weren't loving HAL on our Alaska cruise. Nothing bad, just hard to get food for me a couple nights, and we would have liked more to do on the days we're stuck on the boat. Although from the sound of it, HAL seems to be among the better ones?

 

Anybody have feelings/experience on either of these lines in the Baltic? Should I give MSC another look?

We had the same dilemma and decided it was about the destination not just the ship.We are on Hal Zuiderdam 0n 6-3-2018. We were on the ship in Alaska and it is older and the food was not that great but we will be off the ship so much that it won't matter. Check how long the ships are in port as this can help make up your mind.On this type of cruise smaller is better.