On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:23:18 -0700 (PDT), Earl_Colby_Pottinger
wrote:

My friend and I booked a 2 week Caribbean cruise with Carnival over
three years ago, every year something has come up in the winter months
causing us to delay it to next winter. Now it looks like there will
be a problem this year too.

Carnival's Alaska trips don't have the same appeals as some of the
other cruise lines (Princess is the one we are looking at now). Does
anyone have reasons to recommend any other lines for the months Jan,
Feb?

We would like to budget less than $2800 per person.

Thanks for any suggestions, even if it is just to stay with Princess.

If you want to go to Alaska, you won't be able to go in Jan-Feb.
That's a spring-summer destination (April to September). There is a
cruise on Crystal (very very expensive) that starts in Australia in
February and gets to Alaska in April but it isn't really in Alaska in
Jan/Feb..

For Alaska the cruise line I would recommend would be Holland
American. They have two week cruises. Carnival only has 7 day
cruises and the longest Princess ones are 10 days. A possible winter
equivalent is a 13 day Fred Olsen cruise to Norway in late February.

In the Jan Feb time frame if you wanted to do a two week cruise that
was less than $2800 a person (I'm considering that you need some time
to get to some of these) there is:
8 day Transatlantic on Cunard from Europe,
an 8 day cruise out of Singapore on RCI,
9-14 day cruises in Australia on RCI, Holland American, and Princess,
14 day cruises to Hawaii on Princess, HAL, Carnival or Cunard
a 12 day trip to the Canary Islands on RCI,
a large number of 9 to 11 day Med cruises on NCL or RCI,
11 or 14 day cruises on Celebrity or HAL out of Ft. Lauderdale or San
Diego to Mexico,
some 11 day cruises to the Middle East on RCI,
a couple of 10 or 11 day cruises on Princess to Tahiti,
and of course many cruises to the Caribbean and South America and
through the Panama Canal.