hey
Me and my partner, late 20s no kids have been cruising Disney the last few years and thinking of changing to RC as we have sadly been priced out by Disney
I am not exactly an expert in cruising, but I was on two Disney cruises (one time without kids, just with my husband) and just I returned from my first RC cruise. We went with my friend, two adult women.
I was a little worried as we booked the oldest and cheapest ship (my friend is a frugal type
). The ship was Empress of the Seas and it was 4-day Bahamian Cruise (for both time and money reasons).
Like I mentioned I was worried that it would be an old ship and a booze cruise: well, no and no. We had great time - not any worse then on Disney.
Though we did get a balcony cabin - my friend wanted the cheapest option but I needed a balcony so I just paid more than her but we did get a balcony. The cabin was fine, not very big but I felt like it was totally adequate for 2 adults. The food was O'K (we didn't do any paid restaurants, just were eating in the buffet most of times). Windjammer buffet was really good, but the main dining room we did only once was not that great really. But I was not more impressed with food on Disney Dream either (except for the Palo branch which was REALLY good).
The RC private island was great even though it was the smallest one - Coco Cay. The only downside was that you have to tender there and it seems like they often can not tender there and skip the island. We almost did it though the sea didn't look rough to me at all. There were two ships there, both had trouble tendering but finally were able to do it. And the RC was nice to prolong the time on the island as we waited for awhile to tender and wasted some island time in this way. I was worried that the island would be crowded with two ships at the same time, but it was not at all (though both ships were the smallest RC had).
All the crew we met were extremely friendly. Everything was really nice.
And I really felt that RC had more fun for just adults than Disney. All the atmosphere felt more "adult" - in a good way. We danced two evenings too which I never had to do on Disney ships for some reason.
We are doing another RC cruise this summer - the Northern Europe one, this time the family one with my daughter who is going to be 18 at that time. And I am really looking forward to it. We didn't even consider Disney for Northern Europe as their itinerary just totally didn't work for us: only one day in St Petersburg - it's a joke for me, just not worth it.
So my opinion - try RC. Most likely you will love it