After 36 cruises I always, and I mean without exception always, came back healthier and stronger from every cruise. 2 main reasons, first the food is much better quality than I can cook at home or can get everyday in restaurants, and second, there is opportunity to walk 4 miles every day without even trying.
On the recent cruise on Oasis of the Seas ship, my pedometer measured half mile walk from cabin to dining room and back. With 3 meals there was 1.5 miles right there. Then add the huge covered jogging track, 2 round trips was one mile. I also water skiied on top deck of ship with high velocity pumped water stream. Add to that the 14th floor well equipped gym with panoramic views of the unending ocean waters.
Also, during the total 212 days spent sailing on cruise ships, not even once I can recall suffering salmonella, shigella and E. coli. May be because we prefer all 3 meals in dining room instead of the buffet where kids can handle and touch the food.
entropy12 wrote: “Also, during the total 212 days spent sailing on cruise ships, not even once I can recall suffering salmonella, shigella and E. coli. May be because we prefer all 3 meals in dining room instead of the buffet where kids can handle and touch the food.”
That simply cannot be true because as all intelligent persons know, cruise ships are nothing but ‘huge floating petri dishes’. That phrase has to be one of the most ill-informed of all times.