[imabadboy99]

What is the appeal of being crammed on a boat with 1000’s of other people for a ‘vacation’?

[Bob434]

Getting away from the rat race, and just enjoying being waited on hand and foot for a week or so, and enjoying good shows, and gsmb.ing if ghst is your thing, or just meeting new people while rrlaxing..

Not my idea of a good time, but to some it is I guess. Plus they get to see places they haven’t seen before, a d experience different cultures etc. Some cruises have extensive outings at different ports.

[MayflowerMadam]

“What is the appeal of being crammed on a boat with 1000’s of other people for a ‘vacation’?”

Different strokes for different folks.

What is the appeal of football games? Torture to me.

What is the appeal of jazz? Torture to me.

I love cruises, but haven’t been on one since Feb. 2020 in the Panama Canal (while Diamond Princess was docked for weeks/months in Japan). Interesting 7-day cruise. Rush announced he had cancer. Pelosi ripped up the SOTU speech. I would LOVE to go again, but won’t get a clot shot, and won’t even get a test with a swab up the nose with who-knows-what embedded in it.

[Caipirabob]

What is the appeal of being crammed on a boat with 1000’s of other people for a ‘vacation’?

It is the most luxurious, relaxing, romantic and amazing way to travel, period.

Unless you have a specific destination in mind to explore and need to spend extended time there, there is simply no better way to travel.

[Exit148]

Never understood that. I’d rather be on a ferry.

[TexasFreeper2009]

That’s because you are thinking of it as a destination instead of a floating hotel that takes to you several destinations in one trip.

You are crammed into a building with 1000’s of others every time you stay at a large hotel. But you don’t stay at the hotel, you sleep there. The same is true with most cruises. You sleep on the boat, and during the night the boat travels to another location. You get up and to visit this new place, and then go back to your floating hotel room. Then you wake up the next day in a different place and repeat the process.

The hotel in this case is nice and has a couple of nice restaurants you can dine at and even some entertainment and pools. Not that much different than a regular nice hotel.

[SamAdams76]

What is the appeal of being crammed on a boat with 1000’s of other people for a ‘vacation’?

I've never had the sense of being "crammed on a boat" while on a cruise. Actually quite the contrary. I always had plenty of room to move about these giant ships and there are many things to do. Cruise ships are built in such a way that you never feel that crowded when on them. Except, maybe that one time when everybody has to get on the deck for the mandatory lifeboat instructions.

Things can be much more crowded on a public beach or at an amusement park where you have to line up just to use the public restroom. On a ship, you have your own private cabin when you have to go.

Also, for all the yip-yip-yapping about "floating petri dishes", how come we never hear that said about naval ships?