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.

Not my bag. Terrible for the environment and the sea, all the waste that gets dumped out there. Plus, there's no culture or experience, its just a floating hotel - much better to book a villa somewhere, or a Hoseasons holiday in this country 😊

@YesPleaseMary

Lol no, pay thousands to stay in a floating prison cell along with hundreds of other people who think that just because a big boat has a spa and a restaurant and a cinema and third rate "entertainers" in sparkly costumes it somehow warrants being called "a holiday"

DP, as one of those 'third rate' performers on a band cruise, described one cruise around the Caribbean as 'full of overexcited Americans bouncing all over the place'.

He far preferred the being paid to be there than ever going on one. But then again, he was telling me this as I was wringing the rainwater out of my socks, having got soaked on the way home from work again and he was looking at the private island they were about to disembark for. So he may very well have been trying to convince me that he wasn't getting a far better deal than I was when I have absolutely no hope of ever going to somewhere even half as fancy.

Hahahaha
Clearly most of the people on this thread have never been on a cruise.
I wasn’t totally sure when I went on my first cruise but now I love them, got two booked this year

[quote PiesNotGuys]How about all the deaths and disappearances on cruise ships? That and their dubious record on investigating crimes and problems aboard due to jurisdiction issues.

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And this is why cruises are one holiday I am not envious of at all. I have always said I will never go on one.

@Sportslady44

ha ha good thread ive suddenly stopped feeling envious.

Quite right too, my sister loves telling us about her cruises. I just keep asking her if Butlins at Sea is worth the ££

In-laws evangelical about cruises no matter how much we explain I have chronic sea sickness and Dh cannot bear being around other people on holiday and if he is more than 2 days off his bike is like a caged lion! So wouldn’t work for us!

I've not been on a cruise and they don't appeal to me (or DH) . I've been on one AI holiday and I didn't like that either. We mainly stay in self catering places, camping or caravans. I like hotels for a weekend but otherwise we like to do our own thing. DH loves cooking but doesn't get much time during the week so I still get a break from it.

I don't think there's one right or wrong answer. Different holidays suit different people. Cruises and AI don't appeal to us but I know people in RL and lots of MN who say self catering isn't a holiday, and plenty of people hate camping and caravans!!

I absolutely love cruising. Waking up in a new place every day? Amazing.

Food is usually decent and plenty of variety. I prefer an AI and all the drinks included. The ones I’ve been on have has a good range of entertainment or you can just sit on deck with a drink watching the stars and the sea.

There’s usually a gym, running track or climbing wall sometimes, lots of different sports abs games. They showed films on deck on one out in the Caribbean at night. I don’t find people irritating in general but neither do I tend to make friends on holiday just light chat so perhaps that helps.

There is definitely not long enough in any one place but it’s enough to know if you want to go back for longer.

I’ve never done high end so it’s probably not luxurious but it beats the hat off sitting round a pool in a villa or a hotel. If I won the lottery I’d buy a yacht and cruise for evermore to my own itinerary.

I’d be happy to try a sailing boat holiday but a cruise is my idea of HELL

However large the ship, it will seem very small after 48 hours.

For those saying - people who haven’t been on one can’t judge - one of my sisters and her DH were offered a cruise in the Caribbean - absolutely top of the range luxury. They went as they like the Caribbean and they thought - maybe people are wrong, how bad can it be?

They said it was worse than their worst nightmares. They still joke about the awfulness of it.

I went on one with the family and loved it.

Weirdly it wasn't something I'd have previously chosen but we won a cruise around the Caribbean - very lucky!

It was absolutely incredible the kids thought it was the best holiday ever - it was HUGE, multiple pools, crazy golf, lazer quest, every type of sport, ice skating, climbing walls, a spa, a 10 floor slide! We stopped in a new destination nearly every day and got cabs out of the ports to explore. Barbados, Trinidad, Grenada, St Lucia.

I honestly would have never thought I'd enjoy it so much, the food was good and everything was spotless.

Would I have paid for it myself? Quite possibly if I was richer but it would have been very bloody expensive!

Right now, no I wouldn't cruise, but pre pandemic. I loved cruising! It's so easy. Cruising is pretty cheap too and if you book through an American agent it's even cheaper!!!

Have you seen Titanic?

@PugInTheHouse

Sorry OP, can't help you. They are amazing, never been ill on one and dine about 150 nights in total. Kids facilities and entertainment is brilliant. There have been several famous singers, comedians, West End stars on the ones we have been on, also the pros from Strictly. Rarely crap entertainment.

They are anything but overcrowded, especially at the moment. We are going on 3 this year (basically cancellations from the last 2 years).

We never go on the cheap Thompson style cruises though. I have never fancied those at all.

That entertainment is hell on earth for me.

Never really thought of it. There’s one that ports near us that goes round some Nordic countries, and I kind of fancy that. But I get terrible seasickness so it won’t be happening

Sounds like a glorified goldfish bowl to me. Stuck with the same passengers and naff evening entertainment.

A package holiday for people who want to see “foreign” but not get too close to it. With the option of drowning.

I’ll pass, thanks. I love to travel but I’d rather go somewhere and actually experience it than just float past in a Petri dish of norovirus.

Seasickness 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

God no. My idea of hell. They are absolutely criminally damaging to the environment too.

Lord no!
I have often crossed from Europe to Scandinavia on overnight ferries, most of which market themselves as mini-cruises. And while I always look forward to it and the novelty of the cabin and sailing and the sea and all the rest of it, I'm always glad to leave in the morning.
A cruise of several days would be my idea of hell.

No thank you to cruises. My friend was a nurse for several years on cruise ships & her norovirus & other cruise illnesses stories put me off for life. There’s a lot of vomiting 😷 Give me a plane, an all inclusive hotel & a pool any day please! Or a plane & a decent city break where you actually have time to explore!

@saraclara

I went on an educational cruise when I was about 16 (very early 1970s). It was a small ship, half school kids in dormitories and half adults having a more educational type experience with lectures, etc.(Of course never the twain did meet). I loved it. But it was a 'real' ship, with decks and rails (that I used to stand by and gaze at the sea/passing islands and coastline in a dreamy kind of way). It was all really atmospheric.

Most of today's cruise ships are nothing like that though. You can't walk along the decks and look out, because they're slab-sided. And just huge. I'm not remotely tempted.

That's so true from what I've seen of modern cruise ships, they're more like a floating block of flats. A few years ago we went on the Norwegian mail boat right to the top of Norway, road signs saying 60km to Russian cities, and back. It was great but not like cruises as generally understood, it was stopping at all these tiny places, there were a few chances to get off but it was lovely to watch the scenery go by from the deck and get up in the middle of the night to go and see the Northern lights. Biggest drawback was the eye watering cost of drinks, 70Euro for a bottle of poor wine!

There’s one of those “chuff-chuff” pretend trains with a little bell that takes cruise passengers around my city.
The locals can barely contain their hilarity/disdain.

Absolutely not.

One word….

Norovirus 🤮 💩