Cruise Critic is perhaps the best resource available online for researching a specific cruise line/ship.
If you've heard of Trip Advisor, you will know how useful that site is for reviews of hotels and local attractions. Cruise Critic is owned by Trip Advisor and is focused on all things cruising.
STICKY VICKY Note: If you haven't used Trip Advisor before, you should. An essential tool for research of any city in the world. Insanely good.
STICKY VICKY Note: If you haven't used Trip Advisor before, you should. An essential tool for research of any city in the world. Insanely good.
Originally it was set up as an online forum where people could post reviews of ships they had cruised on. However people soon discovered it was actually a fantastic way to meet up online with people going on a future cruise.
From this grew the concept of roll calls where people join an online group to talk about and plan their cruise. What is great about this is that for people new to cruising these roll calls have have become the best place to ask questions as there are invariably people who have cruised on that specific ship before.
It is now also very common for these groups to plan pre sail away parties, onboard get togethers and their own day trips, at considerable saving to those offered by the cruise lines. The cruise lines have embraced the idea and now often throw parties for cruise critic groups, and these can swell to several hundred people.
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Where it all began - The very first original Cruise Crazies!
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1/ cruise line profiles written by travel writers,
2/ cruise reviews written by people like you and me,
3/ Roll Calls.
Some roll calls for individual cruises can often have tens of thousands of page views and hundreds of pages. Use the links below to take you to each of the various sections.
Cruise Critic - General Questions and Answers
Cruise Critic - Cruise Line Profiles
Cruise Critic - Roll calls by ship
WARNING: Cruise Critic groups can be very addictive.
Should have added above that to use the cruise critic forums such as asking questions or roll calls you have to register.
ReplyDeleteUnlike other sites this is very easy and all you need to do is choose a user name and password.