We’ve often been asked: “What’s your favorite cruise ship?” It’s a question often asked of anybody who cruises a lot by people who cruise a little, or less. Our answer, one we borrowed from the late John Maxtone-Graham, is always the same: “The one we’re on.” That’s pretty much how we feel. When you love cruising, you rarely go on a cruise that you don’t enjoy. At the risk of sounding like Pollyannas, to us cruises are just varying degrees of good. Having said that, over the last six years, these are the six cruise ships we enjoyed the most, for a variety of reasons…
Norwegian Epic: Critics always trash it, but in two cruises we’ve found the complaints mostly trivial.
Allure of the Seas: It’s hard to believe anybody who is objective could find fault with this ship-that-has-it-all.
Coral Princess: In our world, she’s the queen of Alaska, with a feel we call “comfortable in every way.”
Costa Diadema: When you like all things Italian, as we do, you like the flagship of Italy’s main cruise line.
Celebrity Eclipse: When you spend six days at sea, you either love or hate a ship — we loved the Eclipse.
Norwegian Sun: This has everything to do with our longest cruise, 19 days, on a ship that became “home.”
In the news…
• Carrie Underwood joins Carnival Live! in November to raise funds for vets
• Upcoming SS United States Conservancy announcement to save the ship
• Fog in Tampa once again causes chaos for Carnival Paradise, AidaVita
Today at portsandbows.com: What’s next for Princess Cruises
Carnival Fantasy
4 nights
April 25, 2016
Miami (return): Key West, Cozumel
Inside: $239
Cost per day: $59
www.carnival.com