Pottery Chatroom Board

Gordon: We were on Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Sea. We had been on this particular ship a few years ago on an Alaska cruise. To us, the ship doesn't really matter--it is the cruise line. We are die-hard cruisers and have been on many cruise lines that are no longer in business, or have been purchased by other cruise lines and the service has dropped noticeably.

We seem to decide where we want to go and then investigate who is going there and when. There are some that we will not travel on again. And, unfortunately--while they were great before--they have been bought out and have not lived up to previous experiences. One particular line, I gave 3 chances. Each was a disaster. And wouldn't you know, they bought out another line we really liked, and it was also not up to the usual standard. You might have heard about their "beached whale" off the coast of Italy, plus their ship in the Indian ocean that lost power for days, plus their ship off the coast of Mexico out of Los Angeles that also lost power. Not to sound "snobby", but when we pay good money for a cruise, we expect decent service--which we always get on Royal Caribbean.

Within the last year, we went to South America/Central America and another trip to Italy/Greece. Cruising is the easy way for us to go. We were surprised to find how many people were from the U.K. on this trip in Australia. They fly through Dubai or Thailand to get to Australia.
Edie