These Are 8 Cruise Ships to Avoid

Above, Norwegian Cruise Line made it into one the best category. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

If one is planning to take a cruise to somewhere, it may do well to check out a posting by MSN.com on which cruise ships to avoid.

Along with the above, they also show which cruise ships that are best. Fortunately, in this category, the two cruise lines I most recently cruised with, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line made it. 

They begin with:

Before you book your next vacation and think of making it on a cruise ship, read this. Taking the wrong cruise can leave you miserable, because after all, once you're on that ship, there's no way out. A-Z Animals looked at rankings of cruise lines from the consumer reviews website. The site ranked the worst and the best cruises based on guest reviews. Passengers rated categories such as the cabin, food and drink, itinerary, entertainment, and facilities. The results considered the reviews to calculate cruises with the worst scores.

Click through the gallery above to see which eight cruises were ranked the absolute worst by passengers. Then read on to find out which cruises were ranked as some of the best to take. 

To see the gallery, go here.