Ah, you lot should.
Get the right company (Royal Caribbean, p&o etc) and they are fantastic. Amazing ships (esp RC), great accommodation, great fgood, superb entertainment.....and that’s before you get off the ships and see the world.
I have ‘cruised’ the west and eastern Med, a Baltic cruise to Russia/Baltic States, and would love to do a Canadian cruise as well as the eastern USA and the Caribbean.
Through these, I have seen Moscow, St Petersburg, Sardinia, Sicily, Gibraltar, Naples, Sorrento, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt and many other places. From Red Square to the Pyramids and the Sphinx.
Great tours, great memories, and never a problem at all on the any of the ships. Everything first class.
Many of us will never see the kind of money required for what you describe-and certainly not in this economy. That said, I’m glad you enjoyed it all-it does sound fabulous...
I happen to be one of those people who does not like crowds or a bunch of organized activities when I’m on holiday/vacation-it is just too much like being part of a herd, and that is something I won’t do at all-I live in a remote rural area and love it...
Ah, I can tell you’ve never crossed the Pacific from San Diego to Okinawa in July during the height of the typhoon season in a troop compartment on the USS John C. Breckenridge with 100 other Marines many of whom didn’t bathe during the entire 30 day crossing. If you were lucky, you were assigned a top bunk in the six high stack, and your bunk mates couldn’t vomit on you during the frequent periods of foul weather when you were all locked below deck and the ship wallowed from side to side and the vomit filled deck sloshed from one bulkhead to the other.
At about two weeks in the July heat, I got what I thought was a heat rash all over my body until I scratched one of the scabs and it ran across my arm. It was a crab and I don’t mean the crustacean variety. We were all infested with crabs and body lice from the tops of our heads to our toes.
At the time, the USS John C. Breckenridge was considered a “luxury liner” of the US Navy troop transport fleet, and compared to the USS Henrico, it was.
No, no matter how hard the wife pleads with me, I ain’t never gonna get on another ship.