I'd say HAL might very well be for you, based just on the little you've said. I too don't like the blaring music and silly loud-speaker pool games, and would much rather enjoy a classical string quarter (or duo, as it's recently become) with a martini in hand. That's the ambiance HAL delivers.
HAL has a reputation (somewhat deserved) of appealing to an older demographic, but don't get tied up with ages. Travel agents sometimes do that, and it's a mistake. As an example, when I was in my 20s (waaaaaaay before the Internet where I could do my own research!), an agent put me on a Carnival, figuring that's where you put the young ones. I was unhappy with most of that experience. (Maybe I was just old before my time, but I cringed at the "Best-Body" contests and all that other stuff.)
Anyway, I started sailing HAL in my 40s (about a decade ago) and have never looked back.
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I'd say HAL might very well be for you, based just on the little you've said. I too don't like the blaring music and silly loud-speaker pool games, and would much rather enjoy a classical string quarter (or duo, as it's recently become) with a martini in hand. That's the ambiance HAL delivers.
HAL has a reputation (somewhat deserved) of appealing to an older demographic, but don't get tied up with ages. Travel agents sometimes do that, and it's a mistake. As an example, when I was in my 20s (waaaaaaay before the Internet where I could do my own research!), an agent put me on a Carnival, figuring that's where you put the young ones. I was unhappy with most of that experience. (Maybe I was just old before my time, but I cringed at the "Best-Body" contests and all that other stuff.)
Anyway, I started sailing HAL in my 40s (about a decade ago) and have never looked back.