The thing I want to go away: tipping and gratuities. Just include them in the basic fare and pay your staff.

So glad we jumped from Princess to Viking. They don’t charge for room service or specialty restaurants. And all their ships hold 980 passengers. We don’t pay any more overall on Viking since so much is included in your fare. When I added up everything we paid extra for on Princess, it was very close to what we pay up front on Viking. And it’s adults only!

I refuse to carry my phone around the ship. I want to disconnect and get away from screens when I’m on a cruise.

As the owner of one of the oldest travel agencies in Texas, I had an interesting conversation with a senior Royal Caribbean employee that flatly stated that RCCL's ultimate goal is to have only two things available for no additional cost on your cruise: your room & a restricted buffet. No dining room or even shows without a fee. (this has subtlety started with their new dining room rules & fees) Very literally, almost EVERYTHING on board will have a fee. In the trade, RCCL is called the "nickle & dime" cruise line for a reason. As long as people keep accepting restrictions & paying for what used to be included, this will accelerate their intentions.

I like to keep the room flyer. The paper copy, as silly as it sounds gave something to look for...

Just got off the NCL Bliss. The observation deck was fabulous and the "snacks" were so much better for breakfast or lunch. High quality sandwiches, soups, quiches, desserts.

Enjoyable video. What do I foresee disappearing from cruises? Me. They've either gotten too large & crowded or small but much more expensive than in the past.

The more videos I watch on cruising lately, the more adverse I am to going on one again.

Some valid points here. With many ships as the destination along with the private islands i would love to see more lines stay longer or overnight. Some ports i can definitely skip.

Going to the evening show after diner use to mean get up from diner table, walk to auditorium, pick a seat, sit down (maybe order a drink), watch the show. Now it’s get your reservation for the show (while you are still at home) and hope the show is not sold out. This to me is terrible and adds to the growing list of things you have to worry about on your cruise. I prefer the way things used to be, more relaxed.

What do I foresee disappearing from the massive overcrowded stingy nickel and dimeing mainstream cruises? Me! I’m sticking to the all-included small ship bespoke cruising experience.

I just disembarked the Scarlet Lady. It was so refreshing to experience the VV product. Unlimited dining, room service, pizza and ice cream. Free entertainment included tips and WiFi. If they introduced a premium drinks package, that would be incredible. I was tipping the servers and bartenders extra, and they were so surprised to get extra tips and were so grateful.

Gr8 vid! I'd love to see more Single cabins. I hate having to choose someone, work with their limited schedule, or pay double just to cruise.

You are precisely right, cruising is way different now than before COVID.

The one "hold out" I see in the cruise world seems to be Holland America. Still free room service, no rock climbing walls or roller coasters and somewhat smaller ships than the "behemoths" from RC and their ilk. Carnival also provides several food venues that are included (think Guy's Burgers). There's still hope for us "old timers"!!

We haven't tried Virgin yet and we are considering that line

Things that will also disappear in cruising... My booking

It seems that, with a price being put on most of the luxuries, cruising is going to be more expensive. This is fine for the Upper Classes, but cruising is going to be more of a stretch for the rest of us. And with more activities on board, I''ll bet that some line is going to offer a "cruise" with the ship staying in the port for the whole time. I'm glad that I did my cruising when it was smaller, more personal and affordable!

I watch these videos and wonder "Why?" My personal view of hell is to be trapped in close proximity to thousands of strangers with no way to escape. Which is how I view cruises. But then, I'm a solo long-distance motorcycle rider.

My biggest problem is all the extras disappearing... years ago I went on Anthem of the Seas and I thought this was THE best ship ever. Year later I went on it again and the escape room was gone, the high wire training was gone, the people coming out of the ceiling during the Spectra's Cabaret show GONE. Add on the poor customer service, we arrived and our restaurant reservations were gone in the computer, even though we had a printed copy, they put us from a private table to a huge table with strangers. When we went to get the famous Roast Beef sandwich, it was soggy and disgusting. I could go on, but I think I've made my point...

Things change with the demand. Vegas isn’t the 99 cent shrimp and free show kind of a place anymore. Cruising will evolve. Not all the changes are inherently bad. I like things being more all inclusive, but I also like having a lot more food options. One way or another the cruise line has to balance the books by including it in the fare or upcharging after.

1. Room service was never always free. Very few cruises I've been on have had free room service. 2. Specialty dining has been a thing for many years, even before covid. We have done it occasionally, when the cover charge was about $15. There's no way you get $45 pp of extra value in those places now, and that's not even factoring in the fact that you've already paid once for food. 3. I doubt many people cruise to visit theme park islands where they are forced to pay exorbitant prices. if that becomes a thing, we won't be cruising any longer, or will choose to stay on board on those days. 4. The cruise package add ons Princess offers are far too inclusive, so people end up paying for stuff they don't want or use. They don't factor in that some people don't want or need all or indeed any of the stuff in the packages. Not everyone drinks and eats to excess. If they sold more tailored packages, it might be more attractive to people. As it is, we don't buy them because it's not worth it for the one or two things we might like now and then and those certainly aren't going to cost $130 a day. 5. On board wifi is a joke. It is too painfully slow to actually do anything and on larger ships, you have literally thousands of people all trying to use the one point of contact. We've never had any issues with wifi in port. Infact many have tents for this set up dockside. Even in a remote port in Greenland we were able to access wifi on shore. I guess if you are that welded to social media, it may come as a shock to have to do without on sea days, but frankly, I'd rather spend my time enjoying what I've paid to do than spend my holiday with my eyes glued to a phone screen.

I want the paper schedule. I keep it as a record of my cruise. I show it to my Friends if they are interested in cruising. Free advertising for the cruise line.

something else can disappear from cruising PEOPLE

I think affordability is going away. Soon it may be cheaper to take a land vacation, especially for families. Cruise companies are charging more for everything but the services aren’t getting better. Unfortunate.

Another great video!!!

Will tune in!!

I love your voice. I subscribed just to listen to you. Don’t care what you talk about 😂

Viking and Oceania offer specialty dining at no extra cost.

Summary: Cruises are shortchanging and charging you more.

I keep the paper daily schedules so I know where I was that day of the cruise. On a couple of cruises that said "just photograph them on your phone" I made a point of showing them my 2G dumb phone and asking how they expected me to do that. I then photographed them with my proper camera, and when I got home printed them out so I still have paper copies to keep.

Cruise line prices will go up and the onboard items will get more expensive, except for most of Carnival prices are pushing many loyal and long term customers out the door.

Personally I think the cruise-lines are shooting themselves in the foot. With the tremendous increases in fares along with the reduction of services and all the nickle and diming, many of the lines are doing, is going to come back and bite them in the butt. In fact this is how bad it is getting. I took a 5 day cruise the beginning of July and never met or saw my room steward. We had breakfast room service on a port day. Disembarked, roamed around the port for about 5 hours, came back onboard to our room and the room had not been cleaned up along with the breakfast dishes still on the table on the balcony. I normally pre-pay all my gratuities along with giving the room steward anywhere between $75-125. This cruise I didn't leave the "extra" tip and I had customer service remove one day off the room gratuities. This was the first time, after 21 cruises, that I did that. I have one more cruise booked the end of 2024 and that will be it. No more. The size of the occupancy keeps getting larger and larger and the venues are getting smaller and smaller. If you don't make dinner/show reservations way in advance, you stand a good chance of getting locked out UNLESS you pay the EXTRA premium for Concierge Service or Butler/Genie service. In my opinion, COVID killed the cruise industry, and with some of the cruise lines now showing big profits and with an increase in bookings, they are realizing they can take advantage of their customers while they can. HOWEVER people are going to get tired of paying all these extra charges along with lower customer service and reduction in venues, shows etc. and eventually find alternatives to cruising.

I will not sail on a mega ship! The thought of being on a platform with thousands of other people will never be to my liking! Getting away and staying away from crowds and crowded tourist destinations especially during peak travel times during summer months. My criteria for an enjoyable vacation! GH

I recently cruised on Holland Zaandam which only holds 1400 passengers and a very nice small ship.

The size difference between the Grandeur and the Symphony was striking. Give me the Grandeur any day. I'll be hard pressed to book anything other than Vision or Radiance class ships.

As far as the ports not wanting ships there are loads of other places to stop & when businesses start to close due to lack of tourists the ports will start yelling wanting them back.

Last minute cruise deals are disappearing... Years ago you could book a cruise same day of sailing and receive a huge discount because they wanted to fill cabins. In recent years, because of the demand of cruising this is not an option anymore..

Well-done as always. Nothing wrong with the ship being the destination. Everything wrong with reducing inclusions to the bare minimum.

2:21 of course a physical copy of the daily programme is essential. Not everyone is tech savvy.

longtime cruiser. miss smaller ships but like new stuff.

To be honest, the only reason I take cruise is because I can visit more ports and save on the food, transportation and hotel otherwise. That means it only makes sense on the European and Alaska cruise. Caribbean cruise never! You have much better food, all you can drink alcohol, huge swimming pool in the cheaper all inclusive resorts.

I was really unhappy with the constant selling RC did when I was on my last cruise. The food quality seemed to cheapen the last few years as well. My next family cruise will be on Carnival, and my next adults-only cruise will be on Virgin.

I’m looking forward to sailing on Virgin Voyages on Nov 1st!!! No tipping!!!

I am sad to say in life there is less disconnecting and it is making us less social

I would like to see the return of security on ships. On a recent Royal Caribbean cruise people walking all over the ship with no coverups or shoes. Females in skimpy thongs sitting on eating venues chairs with bare butts. They were also on elevators with bare butts in peoples faces, especially young children. It was disgusting.

i got 1 daily planner in room and had to go to customer service desk to get one daily. i like to keep my itinearies

Other thing that is disappearing is the disco 😢😢😢 i would love to go and dance

watching this video from a cruise right now 😂 heading to curacao

I will gladly pay more for all inclusive cruising. When I first started cruising the things that drew me to it are mostly gone. I liked room service, turn down service, dressing for dinner (not formal but putting pants and a collar shirt on) group tables, and yes formal night.. when people started to complain about the "nice things" and everything went informal.. the cruise lines learned that they could change the way they did business because their target audience changed. So they slowly tested the waters on making it casual and ala cart. For some this is fine.. but for us older folks.. Cruising is a luxury vacation and we want to be treated like it is.

Viking and Oceania do not charge for specialty restaurants. I will no longer cruise on Princess after 25 cruises

Sure, I was on a cruise a year ago and nothing on my IPhone worked! I would not be happy if ships went all phone for activities etc. I’m going again in 2 weeks, we will see if it has improved!

Paying to go on a cruise and then getting upgraded Wi-Fi to watch movies. I guess I have out aged cruises!

Pretty much all what you said is true. You only forget 2 things that are disappearing: 1) Gala nights: Yeah; most mainstream and premium lines still have them, but the ambiance is not the same, nor the menus ever differentiated from other nights. With huge luggage flight limitations, most cruisers are now facing hard choices and they're deciding with their feet on letting the formal clothes at home. Society is also running more informal. 2) Professional photographers: Gone are the days when a pro photo with the Captain or either way a pro photo with your group was actually nearly "mandatory". Not anymore. on most lines the Captain's reception has been changed during Covid and by the most part every cruiser do have their own smartphone capable of very decent photos - Oh, well... Sometimes even better photos than the supposedly pro ones by yourself!...

I’m willing to pay a small fee for room service but I object to the tiny menu offered. I used to be able to order from the main dining room menu and have it delivered to my room.

Meh. I think the trend of humongous ships are coming to a close, except for the most basic of cruise itineraries. Too many interesting ports are rising up and removing their welcome mats for the megaships.

My first cruise in 1993 was on a ship with less than the smallest Royal has now. Only 1 theater, dining room and buffet, a few bars, 1 pool, ping pong and shuffleboard. Room service was free and we could get sodas, OJ and iced tea there or in the dining areas. Since then the ships now have 3 performance areas, multiple pools, water slides, rock climbing, ice skating, multiple snack areas, etc. With a greater time line, one could see so much is included now that we shouldn't complain. With that being said, I'd like to pay to get on and be able to do whatever is available. If there aren't enough time slots, the cruise line should do a better job matching options with passenger counts, so not everything becomes a line to wait in.

Regarding the ability to disconnect: I really like it! I've only been on two cruises, but I didn't get the wifi package on either of them. I turned my phone on airplane mode and only used the ship app. It was kinda great. I don't think I'd get the wifi package unless it was free or included with my stateroom. I DO think, however, that shipboard messaging through the app should be free. You should still be able to message your spouse or party members without paying exorbitant fees.

Pretty soon passengers will be missing from the cruises if they keep this race to the bottom

I think the amount of people cruising will decrease over the next 10 or so years so the the cruise lines are trying to make a profit now. Save money, cruise less.

The size of some of these ships is amazing as an aircraft carrier like the Gerald R Ford-class carriers displace about 100,000 gross tons!

I remember the old days of cruising where you couldn’t use your phone at all, now it’s a must. I also think the days of cash tips will go away as well. Also the need for a physical id or passport.

Things i miss already that are GONE Midnight Buffet and black tie nights those were so luxe and fun Also quieter sea days just relax sip a drink in the viking crown and basically rest before arrival Now its do do do do all day and night Worse Unless your on a special and EXPENSIVE expedition cruise educational touring in port...nahh even in Europe its sun fun and the drink Something disturbing about that

My husband and I are waiting for visas and have been saving for a cruise and it's sad by the time we get to go it will stink and it seems a all included resort would be the better choice!!! Sad because a lot of people are saying the same

I agree with everything he said.

You don't think the buffet is going away? Have you been on the NCL Prima? The buffet is getting the usual corporate tactic in the if you can't raise the price reduce the size! The buffet on the Prima is like a snack bar!

Room service was never free in Australia !

Hopefully the small charges on extra food will help reduce the enormous amount of waste. I don't understand people who order or carry out pounds of extra food and then leave what they don't want rotting in the halls outside their rooms.

MSC still provides Daily Planner.

Thats our menu when i qas assigned in room waiter hahahahha

so many snacks together add up to a meal.

So sad that room service is going away 😢

I don’t want all inclusive. I don’t want alcohol or internet.

People do not understand that the more they "include" in the fare raises the price and when you break it down. It isn't really saving

Virgin ALL restaurants are included and no Buffett or children!

You say it's hard to just cruise and disconnect? Not if you don't answer the phone.

Ncl had their fried chicken wings disappear

For the money, "all inclusives" are the better option.

I'm in favour of many of the "free" items disappearing, especially food. I'm a light eater and hate it that my fare and drinks package subsidizes the land whales who eat 12 meals a day of4 appetizers, 2 main courses and 6 deserts, followed by a midnight snack of 2 gigantic pizzas, all swilled down by 14 or 15 drinks a day. Then they waddle slowly down the hallways blocking everyone else while they puff, wheeze, fart and groan to their cabins. They need bloody cranes to take 10 minutes load them on and off tour buses and they squash the deck furniture with their enormous weight usually hoisting their disgusting unwashed feet all over the upholstery. Blech. Inclusions in the fare and drinks packages were fine when passengers were mostly sensible, polite, restrained people. The loathesome greedy louts now taking over will wreck a whole lot more than they already have. Covid merely accelerated the degradation of society in general and cruising in particular.

I will not go on a large cruise.

Cruises are nickleing and diming.

I am concerned about the lack of printed schedules. You noted that passengers use an "app" on their mobile phones. Not sure how this works, because MY phone does not work outside of the United States! My phone would be packed away in my luggage and only taken out again when I disembarked in my home port in the United States. Now, I have been on exactly ONE cruise. It was a small-ish ship - I think about 800 passengers. I don't think I am interested in sailing on one of those 5,000+ passenger ships. I think a huge ship would be confusing and disorienting. Thanks for your good research.

I think sadly you become more a walking wallet instead a guest. (Like Disney is doing in USA and Europe 😡😡😡 And I will no longer go to Disney by this reason.) Btw European cruises are all very bad and I'm from Europe 😳 Better don't go!

Excuse me, but why should they not charge you for all the extras. People do not care they will pay. If you say enough is enough someone will take your place. You should charged 200 person per day and pay surcharge for pool, restaurant, and drink(included coffee). Ports should limit ships to no more than 1500 passengers. And no more than 2 ships at one time. I grew up with comfortable flights, and cruises. New generation of passengers are rude and not intelligent enough to be polite with other customers.

The thing i want included is wifi. I mean we pay for it on land so why do we need to pay for it in the ocean? I know some cruise does offer it free but not ALL of them. Also soda i mean come on. Some have the fountain machines on their boats why not make that free.

If your are too lazy to go a restaurant for food, then the cruises should be charging the ‘delivery fee’. That Americans still get guilted into ‘gratuities’ is something that NEEDS to disappear

Just for your information. Mentioning NCL is providing wireless in his package is a joke. This package is more a scam than everything else. This package didn't give you a flatrate for the whole cruse it, only gives you 150 Minutes which is in the "buy process" nowhere mentioned.

Climate the biggest con on the century.

Room service should just stop on cruises. Specialty Restaurants should go away. No mega for us. Wifi we dont need it

Nice video, i ageee. I'm glad they are getting rid of small ships. They r always full of old people. It's terrible

Why the fk does anyone cruise , one week on a cruise is equivalent to a month travelling SE Asia

Regent Seven Seas does NOT charge for any of their specialty restaurants.