Passenger Cruise Reviews

From movies and restaurants to nightclubs and travel, a review is one of the most important tools a consumer can use to help determine if he will dine at a specific restaurant, spend a small fortune to see a certain movie or book a cabin on a specific cruise line. Professional cruise reviews (and most reviews for that matter) do provide some very important information about certain aspects of cruise lines, but these types of reviews can be somewhat censored and even biased in some cases. Passenger cruise reviews, on the other hand, will give you an unbiased and uncensored opinion about everything from service and food to pasengers and accommodations. In many cases, passenger cruise reviews are unedited, meaning that you will get the lowdown (from real people) on a specific cruise line without the fluff.

Passenger cruise reviews are unpaid written accounts and opinions about a particular cruise line, cruise ship or cruise. With so many websites, blogs, books, and advertisements out there, you may be wondering who you can trust to provide the best passenger cruise reviews. You might not want to rely solely on the cruise lines website or testimonials, so it’s best to check out trusted websites that are dedicated to providing honest reviews and accurate information about cruises around the world.

There are several very informative websites available today offering everything from passenger ratings and passenger reviews to feature articles on just about every cruise line across the country — if not the world. What’s great about these sites is that, the reviews are written by real people like you, with real live cruising experiences to talk about – bad or good. Ships are reviewed anonymously, so you can rest assured that you are getting the real deal.

Besides service, food, clientele and accommodations, passenger cruise reviews may also cover entertainment, destination, excursions, and type of ship as well as ship size, amenities, activities, price, and ports of call.

Some of the top sites for passenger cruise reviews include: Cruisecritic.com, Cruisereviewsonline.com, Cruisereport.com, Cruisedirectonline.com, and Cruisemates.com.

Cruisecritic.com offers more than just passenger reviews, this site has several search functions to help you find everything from bargains and discounts to theme cruises, and exotic itineraries. The site also includes features, news, planning tools, and a variety of cruise message boards where fellow cruisers can exchange stories and information.

Cruisemates.com offers short passenger reviews and ratings. The two types of ratings include: star ratings and value ratings. Star ratings are based on one question — “how good is this ship?� One star is the worst, five stars is the best. Cruisemates.com takes everything from age and accommodations to food, service, and entertainment into account when rating the worlds cruise ships. Value ratings or “thumbs up� ratings are all about the “Bang for your Buck.� Five thumbs up means the ship is an excellent value while one thumb up means you won’t find much of anything that resembles a value here.

Passenger reviews, ratings, rankings, and popularity contests — at Cruisereviewsonline.com find out which cruise ships are at the top and which ones are not. Get other information on cruise lines, as well as information, ratings and rankings on embarkation ports, and ports-of-call.

Cruisereport.com offers the lowdown on cruise lines from A to Z. Unbiased passenger reviews, cruise searches, quotes, and feature articles are just a few of the sites extras. You can also search for “the perfect cruise,� and browse through news pieces about cruising. After checking out their ratings and reviews, you can also search for discounts and deals. With more than 50,000 visitors per month, Cruisereport.com has information on roughly 8,500 current sailings.

Cruisedirectonline.com relies on reader surveys to help keep reviews & ratings in check. In addition to cruise ship reviews and ratings, visitors to the site will find top ten and top thirty lists, as well as feature articles about the best of the best in the world of cruises. The site has other information about discounts, as well as information on roughly 12,000 sailings. Cruise Direct Online has been featured in Frommer’s Budget Travel Magazine, and on MSNBC, CNBC, MSN Money, and more.