canadianbacon4u

Celebrity is definately a wonderful place to cruise. You will find lots of late 20s-30s passengers on a Caribbean cruise and some of us older people can be fun too!

 

The stage shows are actually pretty good. As for a sexy legs or belly flop contest - wrong place. No pirate night either, but there are special events almost every night after dinner or some sort along with music that goes on long after we are asleep.

 

I note we took our kiddos (47 and 44) along with the grandkids (10, 12, 16, 17, 21) on Celebrity a couple years ago. Rarely saw any of them unless we walked by the pool, ping pong table, a shore excursion paid by Grandpa, or dinner. They even tolerated my traveling companion - Ignor and my sense of humor.

I love the sense of humor. Some of our best all inclusive vacations have been hanging around people in different age brackets. We never go on vacation to meet people but usually end up having some great stories of people the we met on vacation.

We have several friends who know about our interest in cruising. All are continually puzzled as to why we like this type of vacation. Everyone of them tried a Carnival cruise as their first experience, seduced by the constant Carnival advertisements that make their ships appealing. Some are couples in their 50s and 60s, and others are singles between 25 and 40. All of them have zero interest in trying cruising again - a feeling we also had after our experiences with Carnival - and continue to wonder what we find appealing about it.

 

We also have several other friends who decided to take their first cruises on Celebrity, HAL or Princess. All continue to cruise to this day, some of them occasionally with us. Some prefer Princess, some HAL, while we prefer Celebrity. It was these friends who convinced us to try cruising again. And we all agree that Carnival is not for us.

 

Of course, this is an unscientific sampling, but it does tell me that the people who we consider friends, if Carnival was their first experience, it resulted in not wanting to cruise again. Those that started with more upscale lines had an experience that had them wanting more, and they continue to cruise to this day.

 

Since I value the opinions of my friends, that tells me all I want to know about ever considering Carnival again. And is the very reason why I found this thread on the Celebrity board and not on the Carnival board, where I have no desire - or reason - to spend time on. ;)

This was the exact same experience that I had. About 10 or 11 years ago I tried my first cruise on the Carnival Elation. Although I enjoyed the ports, I didn't care for the ship much. After doing countless all inclusive vacations with my wife, we have decided to try a Celebrity cruise in October. (she has never been on a cruise before) We hope the result will be different and that we can mix in a few cruises in the future.