I'm following the adventures of people on the 2023 HAL World Cruise and the Princess World cruise thread here on Cruise Critics. I've sailed both HAL and Princess extensivly and love them both. For our 'normal' Cruises we prefer Prinsess but for a possible future World cruise i'm biased towards HAL.
The first thing i'm wondering is how adapted are the services to the World Cruise? It seems that on HAL the menu's, entertainment, lectures and events etc etc for the whole itinerary are setup with the world cruise in mind. A lot of changes so that people who are onboard for +- 128 days get a lot of changes. I have the assumption that on Princess it's more like a "standard" Princess cruise but longer, is that true? But i might be mistaken on that.
I also noticed that the HAL World Cruises got an enthousiastic and active folowing and it seems more popular then for example Princess World cruises. Is that true or is my opinion colored by the things i've read so far?
I haven't seen much site or blogs about HAL vs Princess World Cruises, do they exist? Love to hear all the info and experiences!
On to preparing for our aug 5th sailing on the Enchanted Princess in the Mediterranean.