HAL ships vs Celebrity

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2 hours ago, MarkWiltonM said:

It's very subjective, but we have not found the rock band or the dueling pianos or the blues band (mostly pop, not blues) to be very good on our last three HAL cruises. The Lincoln Center classical musicians are a little better, but that's also uneven depending on the cruise. 

They have definitely had issues with quality/consistency recently. In particular with BB Kings where the performances have gotten shorter and shorter among some groups. In part this is related to COVID and band members being sick (which is understandable) but I’ve also seen the full band do 3 songs per set (one of which being a long instrumental) and wrapping up a set in 14 minutes. Has been better on my last two cruises. I will also mention on some ships BB kings is being relaxed by the “rolling stone lounge” which is a confusing thing because it’s supposedly BB kings but with the musicians provided from somewhere else. I haven’t yet been on a ship with this so can’t provide any direct experiences. I assume they wanted to recycle the Rolling Stone name since they already bought it. But you think of rock when you hear Rolling Stones so it’s sort of confusing