Do you get jealous of people who go on cruises

[Sportslady44]

Feeling very envious today. Friend is about to set off on a cruise for 14nights.

Cant stop thinking about it and them.

Can you put me off please?

Tell me some downsides of cruises.

lol no. I can’t understand why people go on them, they seem tacky and weirdly suburban

@PugInTheHouse

There is a HUGE amount of misinformation on this thread!

to comfort the OP!!

How to make every country basically be the same experience! Plus just a bunch of the same people you cannot get away from. I don't do big hotels for this reason.

Looking out at the infinite blackness of sea merging in to sky at night.

Funnily enough this is something that sounds amazing to me!

@PugInTheHouse

There is a HUGE amount of misinformation on this thread!

Well, OP did request to hear things that would put her off and stop her feeling jealous, so fair play to the posters!

Nope.
My mother and step love them.
DH andxI have never been tempted except for the Mississippi cruise into the deep south but covid put paid to that.
We can't think of anything worse than being contained, dressing for dinner and the captain's table.

However, I could manage something like the Scandinavian Fjords.

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing

Looking out at the infinite blackness of sea merging in to sky at night.

Funnily enough this is something that sounds amazing to me!

Yeah same, that actually does sound quite amazing.

Tacky, lazy, claustrophobic. They’re for people who think that because they have put a foot onto dry land in Puerto Rico, they have “done” or “been to” Puerto Rico. They are built around making money out of people who want to eat, and make no physical or mental effort, and you’re surrounded by people who also want to eat and make no physical or mental effort.

Just, hellish. Not if you paid me.

I get jealous of people who aren't constantly doing chores, cooking meals or caring for children.

If going on a cruise means no cooking or cleaning up and someone comes and takes your children away from you for a bit (but you're fairly confident said children will be returned safely later, happy and fed and ideally worn out), then yes I'm jealous of people who go on cruises.

Though tbh I'm not sure I could truly relax on a cruise ship with DS out of my sight unless the person in charge promised that he'd be tethered to something.

So maybe I wouldn't be jealous after all.

No, never...I can't think of anything worse to be honest, but then I've never been jealous of someone going on holiday, madness! Now I might get a tad envious if they lived in a beautiful house, but jealous of a holiday? Nope.

What’s the point in the age of Covid?

Its the food. All day long, fabulous meals appear and in between every meal there's at least one irresistible snack. So,

Every kind of breakfast imaginable and some you never thought of (asian and far east).
11am ; coffee and cakes
Lunch (3 courses. Glass of wine)
Drinks by the pool/or on deck.
Afternoon tea. The full shebang, sandwiches and cakes and a G and T. All home baking of course. Chocolates.
Dinner (at least three or more courses, several different restaurants, how to choose? More booze
Late supper
It's all so utterly delicious you just can't help yourself; and there's the waiters, so handsome perfectly charming and trained.

Too many sea days (the ones where you are just sailing along, eating drinking reading etc) would probably kill me. So we like the kind of small-ship coastal cruises where the ship puts in at lots of interesting ports and you can spend days ashore walking off all the calories.

No.

Sorry OP, I'm one of those people who love cruises - it so lovely being able to explore a different place (often in a different country!) each day/every other day whilst being still settled in one place to sleep - no unpacking daily like on a tour, no searching to find somewhere suitable to eat etc. And if you pick the right ship for you, I love being able to swim each day too, watch a different show, try a different restaurant.... and on a last minute deal cruises are often no more expensive (sometimes cheaper!) than a "regular" holiday abroad. They can also be more environmentally friendly than they used to be with some newer ones running on natural gas and obviously you can often avoid flying too (depending on which route you choose) - I hate airports!

HOWEVER, there is absolutely no way I'd go on one at the moment - to be honest I think your friend is either a bit mad or very brave! Norovirus is always a risk in any confined environment with lots of people, and luckily we've always managed to avoid it by taking good hygiene precautions - but with Coronavirus being airborne, I really wouldn't fancy my chance on a cruise ship at the moment, between the crowded spaces and the aircon it seems catching it is not unlikely, despite being fully jabbed. It seems daft to risk having to spend most of your holiday quarantined in a tiny cabin if you caught it early in your holiday - as I said, the whole joy of cruising is in exploring the places you travel to and even the ship itself.

I wouldnt dismiss a cruise holiday my dh has dietary needs which everyone tells me would make cruises perfect for us
But my parents go on at least 2 longhaul/cruises every year and have become super cruise bores - which is additionally insensitive when we've not been abroad for 5 years - that alone is putting me off

Putting on loads of weight

Almost impossible not to eat too much. When you get off the boat, the ground rolls around for a week or more.

I honestly can't think of anything worse than going on one !

My other half does them and tries to persuade me every time she goes , my idea of hell on earth

I'd be more jealous of someone going on a river cruise than a 'proper' cruise.

God, no!

Particulates from cruise ships are appallingly bad for your health. Plus, stuck on some dismal boat with no way off? Horrendous.

I've been on a few cruises. Bad points - no internet, no newspapers, tv or radio. Long days "relaxing at sea". Not enough time at the stop off points. Bad weather. (We spent a day moored outside Sicily in the pouring rain).

Good points - the food (although it's easy to put on weight). Someone else doing the chores. The entertainment.

I agree river cruises would be a different experience entirely

They are ... a lot lower key than the cruise ships, but lovely all the same, often more time in destinations and scenery all the time for those to whom this matters
Just don't do a Nile one if you're a late riser; the tours start early because of the heat and 6am counts as a lie in!!

Glad you mentioned the food, 2bazookas; it's not for nothing they say we go on as a passengers and leave as freight

Confused at whoever said "being told who to sit with for dinner" though ... huh??!!

I just wanted to comfort the OP too.

Remember all those poor bastards who were stuck on a boat at the beginning of Covid. That looked grim.

A floating butlins, not a chance.

I know a couple that have just returned from a cruise to the Caribbean via New York. In pre covid times I may have felt like you do now, but there is no way I would endure that now. Most of the passengers caught covid and had to isolate and stay locked in their cabins. Imagine if you didn’t have a sea view! My friends didn’t get covid until the day they returned home.