Originally Posted by
Badenoch
Is it possible that these changes also reflect shifts in the reasons why people cruise?
Not really. The reality is that the previous poster is comparing a mid-grade mainstream cruise line today to the (financially inadequate) premium line that existed in the 1980s. Over the last thirty years, the line has smoothly transitioned into what it needed to be to justify its existence. Even so, it still makes one wonder if we really need Holland America when Princess serves that part of the market so well.