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If you want to avoid kids, don't go when they are out of school.

Cruise lines tend to specialize on different extras to "make their money", up until you hit the point of cost per cruise of regular cruises is about the cost per day on a 4.5 or 5 star cruise line.

If you're planning on getting of at locations(which is the norm), you might want to be looking up the specific docks and locales the cruise lines will stop at in each location.

One might tender in direct to the center of town, another might dock at an industrial port and you need transit systems to get where you really wanted to go. Some dump you in their own isolated theme park wonder land that imitates where you're supposed to be.

Food will vary, some emphasize sit down, others buffet style. Dress up required? Not required? Anyway...