When you know those things, it will be easier to make a decision which one can live with in the future One does not have to choose the most expensive ticket to have a pleasant, quick and excellent voyage (read the Cunard Line gigantic steamers), but one should not choose the cheapest, if one does not have to, as the difference in price is not that big, so that one should expose one self to the unpleasantness connected to a voyage on the cheapest steamers. It will often be the lowest classes of society one will have as travel companions, and those who knows the unpleasantness that follows that, will avoid such company. When you know the name of the steamer, it might happen that there are someone that have traveled on that ship, who can give an objective description of the steamer and the voyage in general. One should always arrange the journey in a way that makes the stay in England as short as possible because a stay there of different reasons can be far from pleasant, no matter what line one is traveling on. The shorter the stay in England the better (see the departures of the Cunard Line steamers). Be aware not to purchase a ticket on one of the slow ships, as they in many cases use the double time to cross the Atlantic. What port one disembarks is of great importance, and before the voyage starts one must make sure that one comes to the right place.