“Why anyone would pay to get underway with 3 or 4 thousand of them defies me”
Have you ever taken a cruise?
If not I understand why you would say that.
Cruising is one of the better bangs for the buck you can get in a vacation........as long as you can keep from falling off the darn thing. š
I agree with Hat-Trick! I never go on any vacation where I can’t leave when ever I want to. To me the only thing worse than a cruise would be going to a family reunion and having and then having the the place locked down for 10 day Quarantine!
True confession - I have never taken a cruise. Been on plenty of them for inspections & casino time when they’re in port. Became used to being underway with professional mariners, and don’t think I’ve got the patience for anything else. I’ve got plenty of small craft underway time, mainly sailboats in the Chesapeake, Caribbean, Keys, even took a 44’ Beneteau offshore from Charleston to Key Largo. I get the financial aspect of it - you can see some cool places for the $$’s. I just have so little trust in mankind, I don’t want to be around that many of them when things don’t go as they’ve planned.
There are better bangs for your buck than cruising IMO (unless you live in Florida), and usually don’t involve 135 sq ft puny rooms to holed up in or with 3-4k people including a ton of little kids. I travel to the Caribbean a LOT (just got back from Grenada on a free trip to Sandals in fact), Europe and all over the US (both for work and pleasure on the last two) and the math on the cruise ships just don’t work that well unless you are willing to stay in the super small entry level rooms, don’t drink very much on vacation, and simply unwilling to do research to find alternatives. Cruise ships are for inexperienced travelers IMO.
Have you ever taken a cruise?
My cruse was on the USNS Mizar while it was the Naval Research Labs research ship. Earlier in its history the Mizar had been an icebreaker - round bottom. We headed toward the Bermuda Triangle. A few days out a cold front that had been working its way across country caught up with us. Not being familiar with winter cold front interaction conditions with the ocean one may think that less energy is available for storm activity. One would be wrong. At the height of the storm, our trusty ship lost power. They sent us to our bunks. I thought we would turn over, but it did not happen.
No, I agree with Hat-Trick.
And by the way, one doesnāt need to have experienced something in order to conclude that itās a bad idea.
Extreme rock-climbing, sky-diving, skunk-chasing, anal sex, pistol-duelling, tight-roping (with no net)ā¦the list goes on.
I guess I might try some of them to save my life or someone elseās.ā¦ but not for kicks.