Here are the reasons we chose HAL. We've been on 32 Celebrity, 1 Viking, and 1 Princess cruise. We thought Viking would be too boring with all the sea days, and on our last cruise on the Venus, the food was just ok. Princess only does this cruise in the fall and spring, we want to go in the dead of winter. HAL seems to do a lot of things right for us, and we got a pretty good price.
Rollie