Cruises

[biznash]

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i have never been on a cruise and i intend to never start. This latest news about the Carnival cruise line stuck in the Gulf of Mexico just validates all my fears of being clustered together with other people stuck at sea. Oh yeah, with limited resources and no way to get off.

[mike24forever]

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My wife and I went on the Splender of the Seas for our honeymoon through the Greek Islands. It was a great experience. We had a balcony and I loved it. I cannot wait to go on a cruise again. I highly recommend that if you go on a cruise, get a balcony. We had breakfast every morning and champaign at night on it. It was amazing.

[mgoblue]

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My wife and I went on the Splender of the Seas for our honeymoon through the Greek Islands. It was a great experience. We had a balcony and I loved it. I cannot wait to go on a cruise again. I highly recommend that if you go on a cruise, get a balcony. We had breakfast every morning and champaign at night on it. It was amazing.

I second the balcony. We're getting one on the Europe cruise, but not the honeymoon one. The Majesty doesn't have many balcony rooms and there's also no sea days, so balcony not as worth it.

I like at least having a window...not sure I'd like the interior rooms or not.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I love the ocean so I am a fan of cruises. Considering you can get a 5 day in the winter for under $350 it's not that bad at all. If you don't drink then you are set as far as it being all inclusive. Pretty good considering I am paying $800 for a 3 night trip to Cancun for a wedding in October.

[mgoblue]

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I love the ocean so I am a fan of cruises. Considering you can get a 5 day in the winter for under $350 it's not that bad at all. If you don't drink then you are set as far as it being all inclusive. Pretty good considering I am paying $800 for a 3 night trip to Cancun for a wedding in October.

Luckily we don't drink. I may do the soda package based on the price, but overall we may have one drink a day max.

That's the nice thing about getting past the point where we want to get drunk lol. Otherwise it can get a little expensive.

Still cheaper than hotels. We were thinking 2-3 nights in Vegas instead and any sort of decent hotel would run us enough where the cruise was a better deal overall.

I really like the food as well, but it helps that I'm not super picky. I could see how food people might not like some stuff.

[TarHeelMan]

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One positive I did hear about cruises though, is that there are ton of eligible females that are ready to get wild.

One of my good friends went on one a couple years ago (I'm pretty sure it was Carnival), and said there were plenty ripe for the picking.

Probably the only thing that could distract me from a possible tidal wave sealing my impending fate.

One of the cruises we went on (one of our anniversaries), was on Carnival, and we had seen this one broad running around with this black dude, having a grand olde time. I was sure that was his woman. The last evening of the trip, my wife and I were eating at the buffet at the top deck. Now we see that same broad, but she's with another dude, and they are obviously toasted... A little while later, the black dude shows up, with a couple of his homeboys. The broad spots him, and drunkenly waves him over, and the black dude is like After awhile he goes over, and the other dude is clearly wondering what the heck is going on. Turns out he was the husband, and he had been laid up sick a couple nights, and wifey was out getting it in. I don't know how sick you have to be to not be concerned that your wife is out all night amongst strangers on a ship. I told my wife that I would bet any money they were swingers.

i liked it when the boat was docked.
I got bored of being on the boat really quick.
The food makes you go to the bathroom like 4/5 times a day. not fun.

also next time we go, we are making sure the alcohol is included.
we only went from boston to bermuda and between the 2 of us, we spent $700 on the cruise card.

The cruise food was my downfall. I would make all these plans to hit the gym hard because I knew I would be eating everything in sight. One trip, my wife was poolside getting a tan. I was inside because, frankly, I'm black and have no need of further tanning. So I was inside the poolside restaurant chilling, contemplating going to the gym. One of the staff rolls up and asks me if I want something to eat (they were closed). I was like, "nah, man, I'm good", and he tells me, "I can get you some ice cream right now, if you want". "Nah, I'm about to hit this gym" He looks at me like "You're on a cruise! You have to relax! Wait here". And my man went and got me a bowl of chocolate ice cream with cake... No gym after that.

Cruises are the best, def most effective way to vacation. I've been on only one cruise (Royal Carribbean) which was a week long spanning PR, St Thomas, DR, and Haiti (was at Royal Carribbean private resort).

I plan on doing a euro cruise or two and another caribbean cruise. Also, while my son is still relatively young (5 currently) I would like to do a Disney cruise.

I went on that same Royal Caribbean cruise for my honeymoon, with the exception of the stopover in Haiti; we had just missed a hurricane, and it tore up that private island off Haiti that RC owned.

We were going to do a Disney cruise this year, but pushed it back to next year. I was against the idea of going on a cruise full of kids, but a coworker went, and really sold me on the layout. She went for her honeymoon, and she and her husband brought their kids with them. She said that there were areas that were adult only, and kids had so many activities, that you could go the whole day and not see them (depending on age, of course)

[PhilliesFan13]

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My wife and I went on a 7 day cruise back in March of 2011. Sailed on the Norwegian Pearl. We had a pretty good time but both agreed 7 days was a little too long to be on a ship. If we ever do it again we will probably go with a 5 day cruise or something. It was fun though. We went to Samana in the Domincan Republic, Tortola, and St. Thomas Virgin Islands.

[kehlis]

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/12/travel...html?hpt=hp_t3

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I think I probably feel worse for the crew who are at the bowels of the ship in even more cramped quarters then the passengers.

[TarHeelMan]

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I think I probably feel worse for the crew who are at the bowels of the ship in even more cramped quarters then the passengers.

That is true, in spite of the fact that they get to travel basically for a living. I've only occasionally seen part of the staff out enjoying one of the ports of call.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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That is true, in spite of the fact that they get to travel basically for a living. I've only occasionally seen part of the staff out enjoying one of the ports of call.

They aren't even allowed on the decks of the ship most of the time.

[kehlis]

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They aren't even allowed on the decks of the ship most of the time.

Well, we don't know specifics but I think it is safe to assume this would qualify as extenuating circumstances.

[TarHeelMan]

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They aren't even allowed on the decks of the ship most of the time.

Now that you mention it, I've never seen any of them on the decks, and to be honest, I never even thought about that. I've seen one occasion where my wife and I were on land at an island port and we recognized some of the waiters from the dining room.

[Dog]

I know that the crew not only works hard as hell, but they get paid **** money. There are no minimum wage laws on cruise ships. They spend 6-9 months on at a time, away from their family.

[dsallupinyaarea]

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What sites do you guys use to book/research?