If you do the western Caribbean i’ll echo Ivy on Mexico. Once you leave the loving embrace of the cruise port you’re fair game to all the street erchins. That’s when a couple of beers inside the port while DW shops the port stores, or a cruise sanctioned tour for both starts looking real smart. As far as staterooms goes, I told the DW 25 years ago, chose between three cruises or two cruises with nicer staterooms. Saved a lot of arguments over the years.
I do RCCL mostly because they got their hooks into me. So chose wisely at the very beginning because it could be a long commitment. Currently a RCCL pit - pinnacle in training.