Cruise preference. Ship or destination or both

DebbieandJerry · July 23, 2012

Just had this conversation with Marcy last night. She wants to try the new Mega ships. I told her that as long as they were 2-3 times the cost of the other ships, we would not consider them. Now if all the ships were in the same price range ...

For instance, our Carnival Freedmon 9/22/12 trip is 3 times LESS than the Oasis which leaves same day, goes to same places!

hazelson · July 24, 2012

Itinerary here too ... as long as we get a comfy bed and 15 square meals a day we are happy :o)

JohnG · July 25, 2012

Itinerary for us.

LeahDanielsNelson · July 27, 2012

I tend to consider both, for our family Thanksgiving cruise coming up in November 2013 we looked at the Oasis class but couldn't justify the price when carnival was so much cheaper and had a better itinerary. But the age of the ship does way heavily on our decisions as well.

ChrisMorgan · August 12, 2012

Routes usually take 2nd to price to us. We are also not a fan of the "superships" We also always look at flights to see if we could get "lucky" but I agree most of the time the flights are just as expensive as the whole cruise. Now since St louis isnt a huge hub anymore most airlines dont even offer us direct flights. We typically drive, it takes an average of 12 to 15 hours but our price is lower than the flights when we do the math. As of now I dont think we have even considered one of the large classes of ships.

Edited August 12, 2012 by ChrisMorgan

Shari2 · August 14, 2012

The itinerary is usually first, but the ship is almost equally important. And of course, the price. I have given up a few cruises ship choice to go with friends, though.

Rose, you are scaring me...now I will have to figure in saving a lot more than I thought for airfare for our Med cruise. Yikes!

Dan · August 16, 2012

Definitely the ship over itinerary for us. But cost is the major factor over both. I would choose the Oasis/Allure over any other ship if we could justify the cost. I'm not seeing those ships running double or triple other ships, but they are about 50% higher for the 4 of us for 7 or 8 day itineraries on Carnival. But that's also the case with many of the other RCI ships as well (Freedom and Independance are all in the same ballpark as Oasis and Allure in January during the week I'm looking at). But I'm also not going to go on a favourable itinerary that's cheap on a ship I'm not interested in.