Posted on 12/31/2020 11:29:23 AM PST by Capt. Tom
Some of these problems can be avoided since cruise lines like VIKING won't allow anyone below 18 yrs of age onboard. Also VIKING has no shipboard Casinos , and it cost more to go on that line than its competitors.-Tom
I love cruising
“Anyone who has been on a cruise can identify with some of these points. “
Cruised Princess several times. Most of the above points don’t apply.
Best first cruise suggestion - Inside Passage to Alaska
You need a really hip lowrider for cruising.....
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My wife and I have been on three cruises, and had fun on all of them. We’ve done Norwegian, Carnival and Royal Caribbean. Norwegian was, by far, the best for us, and probably the line we’ll stick with if/when we do another.
Carnival was the worst, but we still had fun. That was the one where we witnessed an elderly lady pour ketchup from a bottle, then promptly lick the top of the bottle. Luckily that happened at lunch on the first day, so we got ketchup from the dispenser or packets for the rest of the voyage. (And on the subsequent RC cruise.)
Good for you, hope you can get one in in 2021. -Tom
The deck-chair hogs There is nothing more maddening than walking out to the pool deck of a cruise ship and finding every single lounge chair occupied by … a single flipflop. Or a towel. Or a cheap paperback. But this is exactly what you’ll find on many big, mass-market cruise ships on sea days. Passengers will wake up early, head up to the pool, drop something on a chair to “claim it,” and then head back to bed. Sometimes they won’t show back up to “their” chair for hours
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No way. Any normal person needing a deck chair that’s occupied by a flip-flop will simply remove the flip-flop and sit down.
Wow. They missed an obvious thing that people hate about cruising.
Getting COVID.
Regards,
I live about 45 minutes from Galveston So going on a cruise is easy.
When I’m on vacation I hate crowds and I hate being on someone else’s schedule ... so I’d say a cruise ship is the last place you’ll ever find me unless I’m boarding it to evacuate from North America in a crisis.
List wouldn’t be complete without:
Norwalk Virus
Legionnaire’s Disease
SARS
Monkey Pox
and everything else that can be transmitted by being in a petri dish with 3000 other specimens.
Fireone:Cruise....never!
A ‘70s land yacht also works.
I’d do a windjammer cruise.
But not one of those floating human antfarms.
Me too and soon as they start up again, I'll be one of the first aboard. Screw those who like to call cruise ships "floating petri dishes" - those are embittered folks who could never afford to take a cruise on their own dime.
Never had a bad cruise though admittedly, I did get a pretty bad case of food poisoning on a Royal Carribean cruise to Bermuda back in 1987. Likely the midnight buffet which featured raw fish and sushi.
I offset the pounds gained by taking a morning walk around the deck on all possible levels. I go to the bottom deck and then work my way up to the top deck and finally end on the deck I'm staying at. That can be several miles! Then go for a good swim.
As for those who claim their deck chairs with a personal item, I eye it for about an hour or so and then will occupy it myself by tossing the personal items a few chairs over. Never got confronted about it.
While I like to gamble, I avoid the slots in the ship casinos as they are very tight compared to Vegas and even the Indian casinos on the mainland. Will pay blackjack tables provided blackjack pays 3:2 (avoid the 6:5 ones). Cigarette smoke is annoying but not a hindrance.
I Was Cruising in late 50s early 60s had nothing to do with Water.
Getting COVID.
Or food poisoning.
By the way, I love cruising. Doesn't even require a boat.
Cruise ships are a floating petri dish, for various diseases.
Fireone wrote: “List wouldn’t be complete without: (various diseases)”
You’re more likely to get one of those diseases while at home than on a cruise.
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