L'AustralvsLe Champlain

Side-by-side creator consensus from cruise reviewers across YouTube.

56% Bacon Score™

L'Austral

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88% Bacon Score™

Le Champlain

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Creators' Pick

The Bacon Verdict

Le Champlain wins this matchup

Earns a +32% higher BaconScore than L'Austral. Based on 42 creator reviews.

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The Bacon Story

Data-driven recap

Across 42 creator reviews, Le Champlain holds a +32% BaconScore lead over L'Austral — 88% versus 56%. Le Champlain leads on port destination. Coverage spans 13 distinct cruise channels — read the full breakdown for each ship below.

Recommend

of 25 reviews

of cruise creators recommend L'Austral

25 videos6 channels12% warn againstDeveloping data

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Winner

BaconScore+32%

Recommend

of 17 reviews

of cruise creators recommend Le Champlain

17 videos7 channels0% warn againstDeveloping data

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Side-by-side facts

The specs

L'Austral	Specification	Le Champlain
Ponant Explorations	Cruise line	Ponant Explorations
25 videos	Creator reviews	17 videos
6	Distinct creators	7

L'Austral

Cruise line: Ponant Explorations
Creator reviews: 25 videos
Distinct creators: 6

Le Champlain

Cruise line: Ponant Explorations
Creator reviews: 17 videos
Distinct creators: 7

Topic Scoreboard

How they really compare

L'Austral

Topic

Le Champlain

Where creators agree

Both rate Balcony Cabins highly

L'Austral:
3½ Happy Bacon
3 mentions
Balcony CabinsBoth like it
Le Champlain:
4 Happy Bacon
7 mentions

Where creators diverge

Biggest gap: port destination

L'Austral:
1 Happy Bacon
2 mentions
port destination0.45 gap
Le Champlain:
3½ Happy Bacon
2 mentions

How to read the Trip Bacon Score

Happy Bacon — creators loved this aspect

Sad Bacon — creators took issue with this

Meh — no strong opinion either way

Scale: 0–5 strips in half-step increments. 0 = “meh”, 5 = “bacon bliss”. Aggregated from creator-review sentiment, weighted by channel expertise.

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Standout creator quotes

Positive · L'Austral

“the team comes together to create a once in a lifetime experience for a guest traveling the wonders of Japan”

— Luxury Cruise Connections · expert

Positive · Le Champlain

“this is the ultimate place to sit back relax have a nice cup of coffee in the morning and watch the world go by”

— Harr Travel · authority

Critical · L'Austral

“the former cruise ship Berlin has a severe port list and looks in a very sorry state”

— Peter Knego's MidShipCinema · expert

Critical · Le Champlain

No standout negative quote yet — read the full creator coverage on the detail page.

Drill Deeper

See the full creator breakdown

Each detail page has the full creator panel, topic heatmap, monthly trends, audience breakdown, and verbatim quotes — far more than fits in this comparison.

Ponant ExplorationsL'Austral56% BaconScoreSee full ship breakdown

Ponant ExplorationsLe Champlain88% BaconScoreSee full ship breakdown

Watch creators on each ship

L'Austral

9:46

Meine 12 besten Kreuzfahrt-Ausflüge - und was Ihr daraus lernen könnt

Matthias Morr · 36K views · 4 years ago

1:17

Life on board our ships | PONANT

PONANT EXPLORATIONS GROUP · 31K views · 2 years ago

Le Champlain

3:51

The new generation of luxury cruise liners | PONANT

PONANT EXPLORATIONS GROUP · 120K views · 7 years ago

37:24Review

The Perfect Caribbean Cruise Experience. Ponant nails it.

🏅Visit With Us (Rich and Helen) · 41K views · 3 years ago

Highly Positive

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Scores aggregate every cruise creator review we've indexed for each entity, weighted by creator expertise and capped per channel so no single voice dominates. Read the full methodology →

L'AustralvsLe Champlain

Le Champlain wins this matchup

The specs