Cruise vacation is a ‘sampler’ of several exotic locations
in Travel (submitted 2008-03-10)
To cruise or not to cruise – that’s a question many of our middle-age friends are asking as they consider ways to spend their vacation time and hard-earned money. A lot of people have one of two images – the Party Animal Special with 20-somethings being rowdy and stupid, or the God’s Waiting Room cruise with a demographic roughly equivalent to your local Senior Center.
The truth is that most cruises fall somewhere in between, although there are cruise lines and destinations known to appeal to the very young or to the very old. We just came back from our second trip on Holland America Line – this time to the Western Caribbean – and we found both of those cruises to have a smattering of the young, a few more of the old, but a lot of people like us who were smack in the middle.
When friends ask us if they should try a cruise, we say by all means. We view cruising as a kind of sampler vacation – a week or 10 days in which you get to try several destinations and decide which ones you think you would enjoy visiting for an entire vacation period. The disadvantage for us is that we often feel like we would like to spend more time in a port when it’s time to leave.
But consider the advantages. With cruising, you never have to unpack your bags more than once, while the destinations change before your eyes. With most cruise lines, the meals are no-muss, no-fuss, always cooked and ready for you to eat when you’re hungry — and also when you’re not. Meals are usually covered in your fare, although alcoholic drinks are extra
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