This recent 5 day cruise was $544 cruise & taxes +$124 tips=$668 for 2 people which works out to $66.80/per day per person. We usually get a ride to the terminal which is 40 minutes, from friends. And like you we don’t gamble and drink just a very few glasses of wine, so I am surprised the cruise company has not black listed us.
That’s pretty good. Cruises can be a real bargain. Just two months before 9/11 we took a Carnival Cruise out of New York to St. John and Halifax. I think the total cost was $500 for two with an inside cabin. I had fun going up to the highest deck as we were leaving the Hudson to watch the stack clear the Verrazano Bridge by a mere foot or two. That first night out, I spent some time in the sauna which had a huge picture window on one side. I sat in there drinking ice water from a tap, looking through the window as the sun set over the North Atlantic, while listening to Pavarotti sing Nessun Dorma over the sound system, and thought “This isn’t bad for the price”.