Disney Cruise Line Fleet Expansion

[BrianLo]

I don't know about the criticisms leveled at NCL's ships, but a lot of the criticisms aimed at the Wish are mainly design-related - Poor choices by an architect who had never sailed on a cruise ship that were approved by the Master Ship Builder himself. Can't argue there weren't too many things crammed in, because there absolutely were. But the Wish, to me, feels like revolution instead of evolution. And it failed.

Ya, that’s sort of the heart of it. The end points have the same design flaws. Both trying to keep up with industry trends but made their ship smaller in NCL’s case or didn’t increase it to accommodate in Wish Class case. The reasons they got there are a bit different (inexperience in DCLs case and major downsizing in NCLs), but both of the design flaws are attempting to do too much at the end of the day. In doing so much they let down too many.

For what it’s worth I don’t mind either class, personally. But know there’s a vocal contingent with similar complaints for both. Micro venues and down sizing guest spaces that they actually want to use.