HAL is great!
We had previously cruised only on Oceania (don't like screaming kids running around). Friends persuaded us to try HAL. We sailed on one of the newer ones, New Statendam, and were very pleasantly surprised. We have since taken another sailing with them. They had blues and rock bands each night in addition to the standard music. Also, they have pickleball courts! I would now rank them: 1) Oceania 2) HAL 3) CelebrityX as we prefer "smaller" ships that are less crowded. We don't like Celebrity always hawking junk goods.
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