Not much use for cruises. Being trapped in an enclosed space with hundreds or thousands of other people with the entire stay choreographed and brief stops are at places where the choreography continues... No thanks. Feel ALMOST the same way about “all inclusive” resorts.
Your mileage may vary, so I’m passing judgment if you enjoy that kind of thing.
I lived in Istanbul for several months back in the 80s. Merchants near the port where the cruise ships docked had two separate sets of prices tags in their shops. One was the normal price. They replaced those prices with the cruise ship pricing when there was one docked for the day. Not just souvenirs: this even applied to bags of chips and bottles of coke. The cruise ship passengers were utterly clueless. So if you do enjoy cruises, and when you have a stop, get away from the docks and away from the tourist areas before you shop. Far away.
So I don’t particularly care what happens to this ship when it’s broken up for razor blades.
Inflation was pretty high back then so I imagine the merchants were trying to get as much money into dollars and pounds as quickly as possible and what better way than to fleece some clueless tourists.
right. Because your opinion matters. :/
That reminds me of beaches in Sierra Leone. I was told by one of my church ladies to let her do the shopping because there were two prices; the real price and the white people price.
Entropy12 entering the discussion in 5,4,3,2,1 to tell you how many cruises he has gone on.
Cigars are one of my hobbies, and there are many stories about cruise ship passengers docking in Caribbean destinations asking cruise staff where they can buy Cuban cigars.
The staff would steer them to shops selling fake Cubans—those shops then paid kick-backs to the crew.