Magical Christmas Insignia Cruise

[babysteps]

There have been a few comments here lately about the average age of O passengers, most assuming that Caribbean cruises skew older. I heard the same thing from first timers on Insignia in Dec 2023.

 

After 12 cruises on O this hasn't been my experience. Caribbean cruises I've been on actually skew average or younger-than-average for O. I've seen oldest average age on TAs and youngest on shorter summer Med itineraries. 

 

I'm 50-something and the average age of other passengers hasn't had a big impact on my cruise experience. 

But if you think the O Caribbean crowd is too old for you, choose your next itinerary carefully lol. 

 

What have others seen for younger vs older by itinerary type on O? 

[AMHuntFerry]

40 minutes ago, babysteps said:

What have others seen for younger vs older by itinerary type on O? 

Alaska = younger with (gasp) children during the summer but no kids in September.

[WESTEAST]

2 hours ago, babysteps said:

There have been a few comments here lately about the average age of O passengers, most assuming that Caribbean cruises skew older. I heard the same thing from first timers on Insignia in Dec 2023.

 

After 12 cruises on O this hasn't been my experience. Caribbean cruises I've been on actually skew average or younger-than-average for O. I've seen oldest average age on TAs and youngest on shorter summer Med itineraries. 

 

I'm 50-something and the average age of other passengers hasn't had a big impact on my cruise experience. 

But if you think the O Caribbean crowd is too old for you, choose your next itinerary carefully lol. 

 

What have others seen for younger vs older by itinerary type on O? 

On our London-London 10 day UK cruise onboard Riviera Aug-Sept 2023, definitely older crowd many with walkers/wheelchairs requiring assistance. In September 2022 LA-LA 10 day Pacific coast cruise onboard Regatta, also an older crowd.  Prior to this, sailed UK, Australia-NZ, Med and Baltic between 12 and 14 days and age bracket was definitely much younger and don't recall ever seeing walkers/wheelchairs. Haven't sailed Caribbean in a very long time and wasn't on Oceania. 

[nuevowavo]

Felicia, it was great to meet you and Glen. We enjoyed our first cruise tremendously, and hope you put those couple of extra Big O points to good use!

I'll be posting our impressions of Insignia shortly. Happy New Year!

 

- Renee and David