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- Mar 7, 2014
You seem to have a really open mind regarding trying Royal- that's great! It's different from Disney of course, but we love both...for us where we are now in life, we would rather vacation more, so Royal is the fit rather than Disney- we hope to cruise Disney again, but who knows...I want to try NCL's getaway class and also the new Carnival ship - some amazing reviews out there. We will still do Disney- just the parks
Yeah, we're in a similar life stage. Last year's cruise to Alaska was our big DCL farewell. During the cruise I watched as the kids had little to no interest in the Disney-specific activities onboard and nothing stood out to me as being exceptional other than the service. I kept asking myself if anything I experienced was worth the price of admission. The answer was no. Don't get me wrong, we love sailing DCL, and look forward to doing so again sometime in the future (maybe with grandkids one day?), but like you we'd prefer to vacation more often. When we figured out that we could get two (possibly even 3) cruises in on other lines for the cost of 1 DCL cruise, it made it hard to justify another DCL trip.
I'm fully expecting Royal to be different from DCL, but different doesn't mean worse. I posted in another thread that my mantra is "a bad day cruising is WAY better than a good day working!" Anything I can do to increase the number of days I'm cruising is a good thing.