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.)
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,
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.
Cruise ships are a floating petri dish, for various diseases.
And here I thought this was going to be about the Baja Ha Ha and or the Pacific Puddle Jump.
I love cruising , our may 2021 cruise to Italy and Greece will probably be canceled:(
But our christmas 2022 with the family will be awesome. We did it in 2018 and we had a great time.
We usually cruise with crystal, so not as many passengers or lines.
I’ve also never gotten sick on a cruise, tons of hand sanitizers even before covid
Our very first cruise was Disney Magic. Maiden voyage for the ship. We left Cape Canaveral and in my best George Costanze voice “we hit a mighty sea storm” and the shipped was hitting major waves.
3/4 of the people on board were heaving. The shipped smelled like puke.
Next day felt fine and had a great time from then.
My wife does not get sea sickness. The first night at dinner when everyone was sick the formal sit down dinner had maybe 30 people show up out of a few hundred.
Have been on 2 cruises since then.
[[Smoky casinos Even smokers complain about the smoky smell in the casinos on some ships.]]
I take it they don’t invest in Febreze plugins?
[[Some cruise industry promoters will tell you that nobody gets seasick anymore on cruise ships. Don’t believe them]]
Senior class trip cruise on a huge ship- stormed out, was way too drunk, spent 3/4 time in bathroom retching- Gee that was fun
[[particularly when the kids break free from their parents and begin roaming the vessels in packs]]
in today’s day, they are probably more like organized gangs
[[The deck-chair hogs]]
Easily solved with a small vial of essence of skunk- a drop or two will do ya
[[The hard sell On some ships]]
“Lemme talk it over with the other voices in my head, and I’ll get back to you- If of course i don’t forget my meds”
[[The waiting in lines This is generally only a problem on big, mass-market ships that carry thousands of people.]]
Again- the ever versatile essence of skunk comes to the rescue
[[The silly-short port calls]]
Fake a heart attack on shore? Better yet- self identify as a gay, lesbian black antifa minority, and scream about racism when they call you back to the ship
More great tips to come :)
I love cruising big time!!!!! I agree with the emergency muster. Annoying and not sure it’s effective at all.
Second thing for me is the LONG evening meals. Be prepared for two hours of time.
Other then that, the others mentioned were never a problem for me or my family.
I'd rather hop in my car, and visit museums, historical sites, or historical homes. Back in 2006, I flew overseas, visited the small village in Holland where my father was born, took the train to Paris, spent 2 1/2 days there so I could visit the D-Day Beaches in Normandy, and went to The Louvre. Took the Chunnel from Paris to London, and had a week in London before my 3-week bus tour of the British Isles began. I was gone a total of 33 days. Went back to London and Paris the following year for another 10 days. Too old to travel now. Don't have the stamina I had all those years ago.
COVID and norovirus.
Cruise lines?
Capt.?
How about a 40 ft Cat....
We went on a cruise once. Hated it. Wrote the president of the line telling him how much we hated it, and requesting a refund.
Got back coupons for a discount on our next cruise.
To give you an idea, in summer, 1998, the “first-run” movie on board was 1997’s Titanic. Lol!