Our DSs (8yo and 6yo) are obsessed with history and DS1 particularly wants to see the pyramids, the Acropolis and the Coliseum. DH and I felt a bit weak at the thought of organising our own jaunts to these places so thought a Mediterranean cruise would be a handy compromise - a hop-on-hop-off of antiquities if you will. (We wouldn’t be going until at least 2022, obvs...)
Sure enough, there are plenty of cruises covering just the itinerary we’re after...but they’re all clearly geared to the middle-aged/elderly market and appear to be deliberately placed in term times, presumably to minimise kids annoying their usual clientele, which I totally get.
But it got me thinking...there are so many ‘Horrible’ offshoots. Why doesn’t the Horrible Histories lot charter one/some of these ships during British/European school holiday times? Instead of the showgirls, they could have pop up actors on board doing Awful Egyptians skits before Alexandria, Rotten Romans before Italy, Athenian-Spartan Wife Swap before Greece etc. They could have food which approximates the local cuisine as a gentle introduction to the different foods in each region (our DSs are fussy as fuck and would live on chips and pizza for the duration of any trip like this otherwise 
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We would totally pay for that and our DSs would absolutely bloody love it. Are we the only ones?
(If this is a scathingly brilliant idea, Terry Deary, you may PM me for bank details for the ensuing royalties 
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AIBU?
To think Horrible Histories should run Med cruises?
ElphabaTheGreen · 31/03/2021 05:30
YY to the original cast being the best and since they’ve probably all been out of work for a year they could probably do with the cash. We saw an HH stage show a couple of years ago and it was great, regardless though (which, yes, they’ve obviously turned into the car park shows now) so they’ve already got stuff in the bag that they could transfer onto this Ship o’ Dreams.
To the PP who asked about the European cruises being more kid-orientated - we’ve scoured the Internet. Even the ones with kids clubs are during term time. We’d never be ones to take the DCs out of school for a holiday anyway (no judgement on those who do, it’s just not something we’d do) and especially not after this past year when they’ve missed so much.
Bloody love Operation Ouch. Not wishing to dampen the mood, but ours watched this while DFIL was really ill (and ultimately dying) in hospital. DS1 would use their FaceTime calls to explain to him how his nasogastric tube worked and how his kidneys should normally be working (but weren’t)
Did I say Tony Deary? It’s Terry Deary, innit.
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We'd book this .
I have two DDs who say the exact same thing as MrsTerryPratchett's daughter with my pearls of wisdom.
Just saying though, lots of the HH cast are involved in Ghosts and I need a third series to watch come Autumn.
Perhaps they could flit about in the evenings for the grown up entertainment 🤔.
I’m not sure a cruise would be a good way to cover it. Has no one learnt anything from cruising and being stuck at sea/unwelcome ports when the next virus hits (and it will), let alone the bog standard norovirus lurking around ships etc.
I think it’s a brilliant idea but more so as a Contiki style trip involving air and transfers or land travel if sites are aligned. Different to Contiki as would be aimed for young and carers as opposed to young adult and getting blind drunk.
It was going so well until you mentioned Brian Cox.
That being said my dd would love this, she's 18 but has very fond memories of HH.
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I've never wanted to go on a cruise. But I would so be there for a horrible histories one but I would need it to be the original cast.
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