Carnival or Princess?

hey what's up everybody what's going on this is Tony and I'm Jenny and we are lovely to loka and we're here with our comparison of Carnival Cruise Lines and what are we going it's Princess Cruise Line's [Music] alright folks since we've been back it's been the hottest question Jenny what have people been asking us they've been asking which is better carnival or princess or just putting a question carnival or princess no nothing else carnival or princess everybody wants to know now we don't really have a scientific method for doing this so we're just gonna tell you how we feel about a couple big categories that are important to us and then at the end we will tell you exactly which one we would pick would we pick princess cruise lines or when we pick carnival but let's kick it off with some easy ones some softballs you ready Jennie like I am ready casino which casino your casino Queen right in the wean of the Kasai wish I was the winner queen yeah still you have fun outside I have a great time which casino experience did you prefer more did you prefer the carnival casino experience what let me tell you this first let me give you some context we went on the Caribbean princess that was a ship that was built in 2004 I believe it's 952 feet long and it holds a little over 3,000 people our previous sailing was on the Carnival Liberty a little newer ship built in 2005 951 feet almost the same length and it holds 2,900 almost 3,000 people so very similar in size and crowd and our princess sailing was sold out and our Liberty sailing I believe was sold out absolutely alright so they call for back to the comparison okay Casino Queen which did you like better I enjoyed the princess casino much better why because the people were more friendly in the casino whether it be the crew or the passengers and I you know even though I am a smoker I enjoyed the non-smoking days yes so if I'm picking which casino I like better there were two non-smoking nights for the casino mm-hmm that's a big plus for me I have a lot trouble breathing in the smokey casino sometimes I even have trouble in the area around the casino when all the smokes going right so casino perspective the smoke was better controlled I didn't smell it out in the hallway like I did on the Carnival Liberty and of course they had two non-smoking nights so I think I would give the casino to Princess yeah because even half dead even if it wasn't the non-smoking night they only had a certain section that was smoking and it was really well ventilated there and then the rest of the casino was non-smoking nonsense yeah oh it's the princess princess all right what about the food Jenny let's just talk about the taste and the quality of the food I'll go first on this one all right I didn't see a significant difference now the thing that I did see the difference is that they had a variety of food and so you could go to multiple main dining room you could go in the evening you could go at lunch so I saw more food choices but the quality of the food was about the same you know I've said this before food that comes out that's prepared like for the main dining room that's basically banquet style food they prepared in advance they bring it to your table that kind of food was about the same for me on Carnival I like carnivals version of it I like the princesses version of it but the food quality at least for me was the same as far as food taste but the like the the restaurants that we paid extra money for they were exceptional but that goes the same for the steakhouse on the liberty it was exceptional so food tastes about even but food selection would go to Prince's I would have to agree with that so I know um he said like everything is equal like the quality yeah but I really thought that the presentation was a little bit nicer on Princess and there was no lines in the buffet yeah so that definitely goes the princess yeah and so another thing along the food lines the 24-hour food so on the Carnival Liberty you could get room service 24 hours a day in the evening on Carnival some of that some of the free food that you could get from room service you would have to pay a charge after ten o'clock on Princess the room service came with a fee every time they had some food that you could buy they had some no charge food but every order got charged like a three or four dollar room service charge so you weren't just getting free food you know on princess from room service but you could do that on Carnival at certain times a day so for that I think Carnival may win some of the room service but as far as the twenty four-hour-a-day food on Carnival you could get pizza 24 hours a day you can get ice cream 24 hours a day right on the princess you cannot get pizza 24 hours a day you cannot get ice cream 24 hours a day but what you can get is the International Cafe right and that has so much so many great choices and exotic you know things that you wouldn't think of you know like that special mayonnaise they had and that kind of stuff going with that though even though you can't get the pizza and the ice cream are we gonna go over which is better yeah we could do that okay all right but the international cafe just real quick it's these two big cases one has sweets in it the other has kind of savory every day there were sandwiches there were different kind of like mixed salads and then they would toast the sandwiches for you and it was right next to the coffee bar and now the coffee bar was a fee but the coffee bar was also open 24 hours a day right and so yeah I got to give the 24 hour a day food to Prince's international cafe is going to be hard to beat for an included food option that's include that's there 24 hours a day I agree so what do you think Jenny who had the better pizza pizza pirate or did you like slice a night slice my vote goes to them because like my criteria was you know you have to have a little oil in it and the crust was really good I know there was a couple of times that we did get a couple of bad pieces yeah maybe because it was almost closing time but I'm gonna have to go with was princess because of that bread I'm gonna go pizza pirate they make my they make my favorite pizza the prosciutto and arugula pizza I didn't find anything from slice that was going to dissuade me from loving that as far as that goes and let's swing in Toledo food so on the Lido on Princess you had slice you had the salty dog which was their burger joint on the Carnival Liberty you had the Blue Iguana and you had guy's burgers and then you also had pirate pizza from those food choices I'm picking carnem I'm gonna pull that out I would probably give it to princess yeah now Blue Iguana really sets it off for me now we did do a burger on there we paid $5.00 for the Ernesto burner which is the up charge burger from the salty dog and it was an exotic burger rib eye meat kimchi all kinds of stuff how do you think the burgers at salty dog compared to guys burgers so burger - burger and no toppings I'm giving it to princess because I felt like the ones on Princess were also handmade but there's a little garlic in it and I enjoyed that taste so I love guys burgers because I'm the cheese burger they put a dollop of cheese in the middle they put the cheese no no no no we said burger - burger that's how the burger comes that's before the topping barge in okay I think the burger off the grill at guys beats that burger that I had at at the salty dog okay all right let's move inside what do you think about the cabin we we always proves interior I don't know if the square footage is the same but the cabin in general did you like princess better or the liberty interior cabin that we had the layout I'm definitely gonna say princess I enjoyed that layout that you were able to come out of the bathroom and be able to dress and not disturb you know whoever may be sleeping or in the middle of night when you go into the restroom and you have to put the light on you know it was just a nice you know to be a little private yeah so yeah I'm gonna say the same thing so bathroom to bathroom the bathroom on the Carnival ship was bigger that I like that yeah but back to what Jenny said with the layout it was a split layout you had like a dressing in a bathroom area and then you had your sleeping area and it was beautifully decorated super comfortable the bed on Princess was the most comfortable thing I've slept on I know some people say they're all the same mattress they must not have had the same mattress on the liberty because it was super comfortable yeah how about this how about the night time the night time deal you know on Carnival you get a towel animal right we didn't get any towel animals but we got a bed chocolate how do you prefer would you rather have folded up towel or would you rather have the bed chocolate just a small piece of chocolate that's gonna go away and you know that chocolate is made on the ship so it's made specifically for princess and I'm gonna have to go with the chocolate it's super nice you know to to just have that little piece of chocolate and you know most the time and I love the towel animals as well I like keeping them for the whole week and taking the pictures and all that kind of stuff and trying to guess what it is yeah yeah but most the time they fall apart on me and then we use them you know as a regular towel so I'm gonna go with chocolate please don't hate me I don't like the towel animals I don't I don't like them I guess they were neat but I don't really love them I'm going the bed chocolate I liked it let's talk a little bit about service there were a couple instances of service that I found to be different on princess than on carnival I'll lay that out in the buffet in the morning on Carnival I always had to go fight to get my drink whatever you know I had to go get my food how to go set it down how to go try to get a drink or try to carry the drink not so they had self-service drink stations for the buffet on Princess but they had a fleet a whole crew of people waiting to bring you something to drink so as soon as you sat down they would come and ask you and they would refill your drinks so princess gets it there for service and then the other service thing that I thought about everybody was nice to me on Carnival everybody was nice to me on Princess I got no beef there right the above and beyond also the room steward I didn't ask you whether you wanted your room cleaned during the day or during the night they just did it twice which was awesome so you could get up and go out a little bit you come back your rooms clean you lay in the bed you mess it up you must sit up and then you go out again and when you come back it's made up again with your bed chocolates and that's pretty cool yeah yeah so I'm gonna give princess I'm gonna get princess those two service points there because because yeah I haven't experienced that on Carnival well and get into service what I enjoyed about princess as well you know and like you said I'll I'll sell repeat what you said Carnival had good service as well but what I enjoyed on princess was that when we didn't get receipts so there was no time to you know give a tip or you know feel like you had to give another tip so I I didn't like that about princess yeah to me princess felt more all-inclusive I talked about that in my I'm frustrated with cruise ship tipping video they don't present you with anything like I can't think of a time where they were asking me to sign extra I think at dinner at planks it's especially restaurant I was able because they're not part of the tip pool so I was able to do that but I bought a couple of drinks never was I presented with a ticket that had gratuity and a line for extra gratuity and it made me more comfortable and it made me think more about you know it just it felt more all-inclusive to me right it was more like you know just give that person a dollar yeah yeah and it wasn't yeah my big deal mm-hmm all right Jenny so we've talked about the food what about entertainment so any major difference in entertainment so unfortunately I wasn't able to watch some of the entertainment on princess due to the seating yeah so for me I'm gonna have to give that to Carnival just because you know they had comfortable seats they had bench seating or the head regulus eating you know whichever one fit you like they were more geared to all cruisers and you know princess the a theater their seats were not good yeah I think that's true like at the end of the day from a kind of a bigger person perspective there were more places for me to go on Carnival and fit in like if we went to the MDR we had to make sure we requested chairs with no arms right and so everything that we had to do you know being people of size we had to just ask for those accommodations you know and they did it yeah super nice yeah and you know didn't know embarrassment or anything like now it was it was chill that way but yeah the there's no way in the Princess Theatre I barely I was sitting on the edge of my seat I couldn't fit in there and the the entertainment quality it was pretty neat but you know there was tons of stuff to do all the music was good but I can say the same thing for Carnival I had a really good time with comedians and music and all that kind of stuff so I think it's about even there I guess the last thing so wait what there's still coffee and ice cream okay do coffee nice okay so coffee is definitely going to princess yeah yeah even the coffee and the Lido was phenomenal and then the their specialty coffee head-to-head definitely goes to princess yeah and then I'm not you know what coffee love it so I don't need a lot of ice cream but the cool thing about the ice cream so it wasn't 24 hours and you didn't serve yourself you went to a place and they actually put the ice cream in a cup for you or they put it on a cone but the cool thing is they also had a set of toppings that they would put on their ass so you want some hot fudge you want some hot caramel you want some sprinkles they could do that for you there and so i think i think that edges it out it's not 24 hours so you gotta weigh that out but uh but i mean it's like what eight in the mornings he's eleven eleven okay eleven eleven eleven yeah so the pizza and the salty dog were the same eleven eleven so that was pretty good what do you think over out like I think it's hard to compare ship decor because everything stylized that ship the princess ship was beautiful I was gorgeous it was yeah it was beautiful and but I like the carnival ships too so I mean I think it would be hard to argue decor but man it was just so everything was well maintained and no funky smells no and you know what they have is a fresh water in their pools yeah and they have princess has the fresh water and they also have stairs to get into a pool instead of just the ladder yep and I mean pools definitely gonna go to print I think for me oh - princess - yeah and then finally just the atmosphere that's the question we get asked a lot didn't look like people are having a party you know what the atmosphere like so I said it the other day on our live stream we do that every Tuesday night if you want to hear us talk in real time yeah come to Tuesday night live but to me on Carnival it's like a party and you have to go look for a place to chill out right and then on Princess it's kind of chill and then you have to go look for the party and I think the big difference is the way the cruise director is used right so on a carnival ship to me the cruise director is kind of like the ringmaster kind of the master of ceremonies the guy that's bringing the fun I just watched the video with the cruise director on the horizon that guy was all over the place up on the bar hyping people up you didn't really have that on princess and so it was a quieter more chilled but then they also had a nightclub they would have Lido deck parties so you could go and of course there were bars everywhere the alcohol was flowing freely but if you're looking for that party atmosphere I would say Carnival if party atmosphere is like high up on your list right and you want everywhere you go on the ship to be kind of loud kind of like a party that's carnival but if you're looking for like a more quiet kind of you know chill kind of cruising experience and then when you want those moments where you can go yell and scream then that's kind of what Caribbean princess was to me the absolutely I could go find the fun if I wanted but that wasn't the standard no no oh and what about cruise towels oak roost houses again yeah let's say that one real quick yeah I hate having to be responsible for the cruise towel because somebody took mine one time and I was gonna get charged for it and it was a hassle and I had to figure it out I never took it anyways it doesn't matter I love the fact that on the princess I am NOT responsible for towels they just set the towels out you use them they don't it's no big deal yeah it was lovely so I like that yeah all right Jenni we've talked about a lot of things I'm sure there's more things to talk about but let's let's tell the people if so if you're gonna go cruising again which Cruise Line you're gonna cruise on wow that's so hard but I would enjoin other princess cruise yeah so I'm for me dollar for dollar if it cost me $1 to cruise on and $1 to cruise on Caribbean princess I'm gonna pick Caribbean princess or Princess cruise lines right if that's $2 to cruise on Princess cruise lines and $1 to cruise on Carnival I would not do that I wouldn't I wouldn't pay double for the experience I almost don't know if I would pay 50 cents more right but if I could go on a if the choice was $1,000 to Carnival or $1,200 to princess I would probably pay $1,200 I would pay $200 extra for that experience absolutely I agree and yeah we didn't mention it but the crowd so there was the same amount of people there were more people on the Caribbean princess than they were than there was on the liberty and I felt like I was always around people on the liberty right because everything you get away everything is all compact and it was all about but on the Caribbean princess they were able to disperse those people to a variety of different things and I never felt crowded no it was exciting for me personally my personality I'm a little shy a little introverted I like to go looking for a party I don't like to always be in the party I would pay $200 for that kind of experience yeah I agree all right guys what about you I know we have a lot of carnival fans out there and we got a lot of princess fans out there I know we got a lot of crews and fans out there don't lose your mind over this this is just our humble opinion and guess what you got a cruise the way that you want a cruise if you love carnival cruise carnival but if you want to try something different and and you want something that's not as loud and a little slower pace but you can still have the party that you want to have I would definitely recommend Princess Cruise Line's right and that's why our group cruises are through carnival because we're gonna have fun yeah I'm looking forward to it so I'm excited yeah so that's a great point our group cruises are for Carnival because in those circumstances I want to get everybody whipped up into a frenzy right we want to have a good time and so I think it's gonna be perfect for that and saying that we had a phenomenal time on princess it's not like we didn't have fun it was just a very different experience and you know I would do it again absolutely all right guys did you like this video was this helpful please hit the like button it helps us out so much if you're new here and you haven't subscribed to the YouTube channel hit the subscribe button with the bail notification that way you get notified when new videos come out when Tuesday night lives about happen and if you want to join the local fam that's where all the love and fun is come on over to Facebook to the lolly to loca cruising community it's open to everybody and I guess that's it Jenny I'm ready if you have if you have any other comments like questions about princess or carnival leave them down below and we're real good about getting back to you as quickly as possible that's right yeah alright well again my name is Tony and I'm Jenny and we are live up there what again my name is Tony and I'm Jenny and we are Lolita loca and until the next time we'll see on the Lido see on the Lido bye bye [Music]

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Length: 20min 46sec (1246 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 26 2018