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I cruised Celebrity Summit from NJ to Bermuda (I know, not exactly the Caribbean) and they had an awesome pool band. In fact, I was very impressed with the quantity and quality of live music available all over the ship! The Singing/Dancing troupe put on two "jam session" type concerts, etc.

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I cruised Celebrity Summit from NJ to Bermuda (I know, not exactly the Caribbean) and they had an awesome pool band. In fact, I was very impressed with the quantity and quality of live music available all over the ship! The Singing/Dancing troupe put on two "jam session" type concerts, etc.

 

The OP asked about a "Caribbean Band". I took this to mean steel drums and the like.

 

HAL does has a house band, and it does play at the pool. However, it is not a steel drums sort of thing.

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The OP asked about a "Caribbean Band". I took this to mean steel drums and the like.

 

HAL does has a house band, and it does play at the pool. However, it is not a steel drums sort of thing.

 

NCL SUN had a band from Jamaican that played Bob Marley and a mix of Caribbean music, Jimmy Buffet and the standard vacation songs like Brown Eyed Sue and Red Red Wine. I love bands by the pool and detest big screens playing TV shows and video and, heaven forbid, the Hairiest Man Competition 3 stories high!:eek: I don't need the band to have Steele Drums, but that would be a nice bonus!:). Does the HAL house band play the standard Caribbean and Buffet fare?

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I don't need the band to have Steele Drums, but that would be a nice bonus!:). Does the HAL house band play the standard Caribbean and Buffet fare?

 

Steel drums is about as Caribbean as you get...

 

HAL's house band will probably play some local flavor.

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Every ship has some type of pool band or other that plays Caribbean music. Even the QM2 who visits there but, once a year has a Caribbean pool band.

 

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Are you certain that ever cruiseship sailing the Caribbean has a poolside band that plays Caribbean music?

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I have to give it to NCL on this one - every caribbean we have done with them has had a jamaican / reggae band on board

 

Royal caribbean and Celebrity had good bands but nothing jamaican/reggae

 

Yes that is what I am looking to find out. There has always been a great Caribbean band poolside on my Caribbean NCL cruises and I am wondering what other lines have this. On my last Carnival cruise in July from San Juan on the Valor there was not a Caribbean style poolside band and I was very disappointed.

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Yes that is what I am looking to find out. There has always been a great Caribbean band poolside on my Caribbean NCL cruises and I am wondering what other lines have this. On my last Carnival cruise in July from San Juan on the Valor there was not a Caribbean style poolside band and I was very disappointed.

 

It seems that Carnival has dropped this. On our Western Caribbean cruise on the Freedom last summer, there was no poolside Caribbean band. I missed it.

 

We did get our reggae fix by going on the Bob Marley bus in Jamaica. :)

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Royal caribbean and Celebrity had good bands but nothing jamaican/reggae

 

Huh??!! :confused: I have never been on a RCI cruise that didn't have a poolside reggae band, including just last week on the Allure. Every RCI ship has them, and has had them for as long as I've been sailing with them.

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Huh??!! :confused: I have never been on a RCI cruise that didn't have a poolside reggae band, including just last week on the Allure. Every RCI ship has them, and has had them for as long as I've been sailing with them.

 

I remember asking for a particular reggae song on an RCL ship, and being told by a band member that they were a calypso band, not a reggae band.

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I have to give it to NCL on this one - every caribbean we have done with them has had a jamaican / reggae band on board

 

Royal caribbean and Celebrity had good bands but nothing jamaican/reggae

 

Celebrity has had steel drum band on most if not all sailings we have been on.

 

 

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