Favorite thing about CCL

[sweetcurves]

What is yours? I've only been on one cruise but so far my favorite thing is the affordability and the minimal effort I have to put in while on board!

 

Tell me what your favorite thing about CCL is! :D

[chipq]

CCL is our recent 4 cruises and love them because both my kids (now 10 & 12) both look forward to the Camp Carnival youth program. When the kids program is engaging and fun, mom and dad also have a good time.

 

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[Tapi]

Price, and that they have the largest number of ships sailing within driving distance, reducing traveling costs even more. Great cruise line for a cheap getaway.

[ccruisequeen]

Price and availablity. See my signature

[Cruisin 4 Ever]

Half Moon Cay

[prattmom]

Value and location

[Catrin]

13 cruises.... Something for everyone in my family. Great value and great relaxing atmosphere.

[SkyMaster]

Affordability, abundance of ships, so lots of choices, and lots of different ports to sail out of, and entertainment, especially karaoke almost every night.

 

"SKY"

[txmom11]

We like that we cannot be reached by work, but by far, our favorite part of cruising would be getting to meet new people, both the crew and passengers.

[RWolver672]

We always feel relaxed and have fun on Carnival. It's our kind of people cruising with us. Didn't feel that way on RCI. Felt like everybody thought they were better than us.

[Senoj84]

The prices are affordable and the ship activities.

[wrcjr98]

Warm Chocolate Melting Cake!! :D

[SkyMaster]

We always feel relaxed and have fun on Carnival. It's our kind of people cruising with us. Didn't feel that way on RCI. Felt like everybody thought they were better than us.

 

I hadn't thought about that, but you have an excellent point. I love cruising Carnival, because 98% of the people I've cruised with are NOT "putting on the dog". What you see, is what you get. For instance, a couple of years ago, we had a delightful couple at our dinner table with us for seven days, and I knew he had served in the Navy, but what I didn't know until the last evening is that he was AN ADMIRAL! Both he, and his wife were absolutely "down to earth" and I would have never guessed. I served as an enlisted Marine, and when I found out, I gave him my snappiest salute. It almost embaressed him, but he did return the salute. GREAT PEOPLE!

 

"SKY"

[jonathansburden]

For cruising in general fy favorite thing is not having to plan what to make for dinner every night, it's my least favorite thing at home... no matter what I pick someone complains, on a cruise they can order what ever the heck they want and I'm off the hook. I don't even care if they eat pizza and cheeseburgers all week, hubby included!!

 

I like Carnival specifically because of the homeports, I don't fly so being able to sail from NY or Baltimore is important. Plus Carnival's prices are low enough that I don't have to cram us all into one balcony room, a suite is actually affordable (don't care about the perks)!

[flounder315]

My favorit thing about CCL, is that they sail out of Galveston year around...

 

Unlike RCL who only visits Galveston during the fall & winter.

 

Disney has starting sailing out of Galveston, but the price is 2 to 3 times higher than CCL, so I will gladly stick to CCL

[enester]

Price, route options, passenger tapestry, dinning room dinners ~ :cool:

 

enester

[cruisinqt]

Since your question was specifically about Carnival and not cruising in general, I'm assuming you want to know what we prefer about carnival as opposed to the other choices out there. We've sailed Norwegian, Princess, and Royal Carribbean too.

What does carnival have that the others don't?

1. Well I love their late night adult comedy shows that are very funny. :p

2. They have a younger funner crowd that keeps the clubs hopping till the wee hours of the morning and the karaoke is very lively. On other cruise lines (princess, Norwegian) the clubs and karaoke were virtually empty by 10 pm.:(

3. Much better food options like 24 hour pizza, free ice cream cones, burgers by the pool etc. they just have more food choices IMHO.

 

I think I prefer carnival because its just a younger more hip crowd that keeps things lively. There's nothing worse than being on a ship at 10 pm and finding everything's empty, everyone's gone to bed and there's nothing to do. With carnival night time is when everything comes alive. That and the food quality and food choices put it a notch above the other cruise lines. The only other cruise line that is similar to it IMHO is Royal Carribbean, I just wish they were more competitively priced like carnival.

[ccruisequeen]

Since your question was specifically about Carnival and not cruising in general, I'm assuming you want to know what we prefer about carnival as opposed to the other choices out there. We've sailed Norwegian, Princess, and Royal Carribbean too.

What does carnival have that the others don't?

1. Well I love their late night adult comedy shows that are very funny. :p

2. They have a younger funner crowd that keeps the clubs hopping till the wee hours of the morning and the karaoke is very lively. On other cruise lines (princess, Norwegian) the clubs and karaoke were virtually empty by 10 pm.:(

3. Much better food options like 24 hour pizza, free ice cream cones, burgers by the pool etc. they just have more food choices IMHO.

 

I think I prefer carnival because its just a younger more hip crowd that keeps things lively. There's nothing worse than being on a ship at 10 pm and finding everything's empty, everyone's gone to

bed and there's nothing to do. With carnival night time is when everything comes alive. That and the food quality and food choices put it a notch above the other cruise lines. The only other cruise line that is similar to it IMHO is Royal Carribbean, I just wish they were more competitively priced like carnival.

 

I agree about the ice cream. I love serve it yourself style. On Princess and Celebrity, they serve certain flavors mid-day and its usually right before early dinner sitting! Celebrity served The same flavors for dessert.

I wish royal carribean would come back to long beach. We have such little choice as it is.

[Jasonmom]

Warm Chocolate Melting Cake :D .

[sweetcurves]

I just wish there was hard ice cream (yanno, the stuff you get by the scoop). I'm not big on soft serve.

[yogimax]

Departures from Manhattan

[jcearth]

Definitely the WaterWorks. I cannot explain to you how much my kids and I enjoyed the slides - we rode them every day. Even my two year old loved the little slides and all of the sprayers. I just saw the renderings of the WaterWorks area for the Sunshine and I can't stop staring at it - definitely looks like it will be on our list for 2014 (unless NCL Getaway decides to come way down in price).

[cambio]

The Splendor sailing from Long Beach.

[thunter1224]

I like that they are close, and the best cruiseline deals, and getting away during the cold months to someplace warm.. I will bring a snowglobe if I want to see snow while on the beaches :cool:

[Georgiagolfer]

CCL is not our exclusive line anymore, but do like that on most cruises, they are the most affordable, and we can drive to 4 ports. Also like their room size and storage for standard rooms.