Age Demographic on cruises?

[Sunshine101]

Hi all,

 

Just wondering what the average age demograpic is on some ships, mainly RC, NCL and Princess? We have always sailed RC, but are looking into Princess or NCL.....hvae heard their is an older age demographic on Princess out of all of them, and RC being the youngest?

 

Thoughts?

[mtchg]

NCL was very similar to RCCL and Carnival. All of these mainstream cruise lines draw a fairly diverse demographic group, really. Shorter cruises tend to be younger, longer tend to be older.

 

My sense is Princess may skew a little older, but not Holland America older (I'm in my 50's and I still don't think I'm ready for HAL)...

 

Mitch

[booklady26]

Hi all,

 

Just wondering what the average age demograpic is on some ships, mainly RC, NCL and Princess? We have always sailed RC, but are looking into Princess or NCL.....hvae heard their is an older age demographic on Princess out of all of them, and RC being the youngest?

 

Thoughts?

 

I'd say all three are about the same. It depends on the time of year and itinerary. If you sail during school vacations, all will be loaded with families. If you sail when school is in session, there will be fewer children. Longer itineraries also have fewer families. Families tend to cruise for no longer than a week. 10-14 day cruises have a bit older demographic.

 

I celebrated my 30th birthday on my first cruise 29 years ago. I've sailed with Princess, RCI & NCL the most and have never felt too old or too young on any of them.

[Sunshine101]

Thanks for the info folks! What about Celebrity? Any info on them? Their ships look very posh!

[printingchick]

Varies between ships sometimes too. We had plenty of kids on our Adventure of the Seas cruise in the southern Caribbean. We had virtually NONE on our Serenade of the Seas cruise in the same area. We were traveling EXACTLY the same week of the year on both. The larger ships with all the bells and whistles that appeal to teens and young children draw more kids than the simple elegant ships.

[Cuizer2]

Hi all,

 

Just wondering what the average age demograpic is on some ships, mainly RC, NCL and Princess? We have always sailed RC, but are looking into Princess or NCL.....hvae heard their is an older age demographic on Princess out of all of them, and RC being the youngest?

 

Thoughts?

 

It has been my experience that Carnival is the youngest, Royal Caribbean and NCL are in the middle, and Princess is the oldest.

[Jolimont]

On Princess to Alaska there were more oxygen tanks than children on board.

[Bakincakes]

It depends upon the sailing...we've seen many young families on HAL....they are looking for lines that offer family activities have evning activities for adults but aren't considered "party" ships...

 

Princess and X also have a good diverse ratio...Carnival..RCI and NCL draw families and a much younger crowd...I consider them the "party" lines.

[THEWIFE]

We traveled on a transatlantic this past Arpil on Celebrity and found most of the people to be older than us. We are 60ish. There were very few children (school was in session and it was a 14 day cruise). We were very comfortable there. I would not go out of my way to recommend Celebrity to a younger demographic, but it was good for us. By the way, the ship (Equinox) was quite beautiful and everything on the ship was excellent in every aspect except for one: Guest Relations, which, IMO, is seriously lacking. Other people on booard who travel celebrity extensively told us that it is always a problem on Celebrity.

[PhoenixDawgCruising]

All I can say is this: I'm in my 30's and we almost always sail RCCL, my dad and his wife are in their 60's and they always sail Princess....:D

[leerobbs]

We are mid 50's and we sailed on the Princess Emerald in Janurary this year and the average age had to be close to 70. I have sailed on RCCL and Celebrity many times and it seemed more elderly on this particular princess cruise. I really noticed when we were in the casino on the morning of we disembarked and we had numerous walkers, wheelchairs and electric scooters all around us. We noticed several oxygen buggies as well. The experience was fine as a cruise goes not complaining just an observation that is appropriate for this thread. I suspect that the time of year we sailed had something to do with it but we have sailed at this time on RCCL and Celebrity in the past and I don't recall the same thing. Had a wonderful time as usual.

[Cruisinfrombmore]

The time of year heavily influences the age demographic! We sailed on Carnival & RC within a year of each other and the median age on RC was much younger! Because.... we sailed on Carnival in mid-September (while school was in session) and RC in Mid-March (while most colleges were on Spring Break).