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A Cruise

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  • #52
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,002 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Each to their own. I suppose you have to try it once in order to either love it or hate it.

    Problem is, I can't get myself to even try it. I dunno, maybe it's the fact that no matter where you go non cruising, even a package thing you can avoid people if you want to. But on a cruise I can't see that.

    And the ports of call are heaving with people too, and as a cruiser you have no choice but to join the throngs even if you DIY it.


  • #53
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    I could not imagine a worse holiday than being stuck on a massive cruise ship. The whole concept is quite disgusting.


  • #54
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,002 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    I could not imagine a worse holiday than being stuck on a massive cruise ship. The whole concept is quite disgusting.

    Ah now I wouldn't call it DISGUSTING really, but I get what you mean.

    It certainly would not suit introverts like me and so many others like me, that's for sure, but I will try for the OH sake a four or five day thing on the Norwegian Fjiords or something. In a few years time lol.


  • #55
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Problem is, I can't get myself to even try it. I dunno, maybe it's the fact that no matter where you go non cruising, even a package thing you can avoid people if you want to. But on a cruise I can't see that.

    I thought the same too at first. Its only for a week at the most. People make out that you are going half way around the world. Quiet spaces on a ship are hard to come by outside the cabin. But you do get shore time most days.


  • #56
    Cake Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,853 ✭✭✭Cake Man


    Cruises are really good, one of the best things is that you get to see multiple places in one trip (only having to unpack and pack your suitcase once). It's nice waking up in a different city/country and being able to disembark and see the area where the ship is docked up.
    The food is great, you can literally eat until you puke. As they say, you go on as a passenger and come off as cargo.

    The entertainment is also excellent, there's always something going on. I just got off an 11 night cruise around New Zealand a few weeks ago on one of the biggest cruise ships in the world and it had an indoor court with football/basketball/roller skating/bumper cars, a simulated sky diving tube, flowrider for surfing simulation, pools, casino, arcades etc. You'd never be bored.
    Went on one 3 years ago to the south Pacific islands (Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia) on a smaller/older ship but was also great. Got to kick back on remote island beaches with blue skies and crystal clear water.

    Would love to get to the Caribbean and do either one of the east or west Caribbean itinerary - Cozumel/Coco Cay/Nassau/Progresso/San Juan. If I had the time and money would be a dream to do around the world.

    To the poster who mentioned Royal Caribbean, definitely agree they treat you really well! The two cruises I went on were with them and they really are the gold standard of cruises.


  • #57
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Cake Man wrote: »
    Would love to get to the Caribbean and do either one of the east or west Caribbean itinerary - Cozumel/Coco Cay/Nassau/Progresso/San Juan. If I had the time and money would be a dream to do around the world.

    To the poster who mentioned Royal Caribbean, definitely agree they treat you really well! The two cruises I went on were with them and they really are the gold standard of cruises.

    Cant tell you the reason but Royal Caribbean are pulling out of San Juan(Peurto Rica) this year, according to Mrs Skooter. Can you check out "Perfect day at Coco Cay" on CruiseTipsTV?


    Royal Carribean really tie you in with the loyalty packages.


  • #58
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,812 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    There's no regimentation.

    It's more like a floating resort. Do what you like. Or do nothing.

    Correct, there is zero regimentation, you come and go as you please... the only regimentation or organization is your specific time for evening meal in the formal restaurant which will be say 8.15 and you are asked to dress formally.... if you want to skip the hassle the buffet is open all evening, turn up at your leisure. Zero regimentation.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd only really be interested in a smaller cruise around a cold area. Like Norway like someone posted above, or Antarctica.

    For hot weather, I'd rather try give sailing a go.


  • #60
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'd only really be interested in a smaller cruise around a cold area. Like Norway like someone posted above, or Antarctica.

    The Antarctic cost serious bucks like €10k. They only do smaller ships and you have to cross the drake straits which are either calm or choppy, no middle ground.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    The Antarctic cost serious bucks like €10k. They only do smaller ships and you have to cross the drake straits which are either calm or choppy, no middle ground.

    I thought it would be more than that to be honest.


  • #62
    Cake Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,853 ✭✭✭Cake Man


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Cant tell you the reason but Royal Caribbean are pulling out of San Juan(Peurto Rica) this year, according to Mrs Skooter. Can you check out "Perfect day at Coco Cay" on CruiseTipsTV?

    Royal Carribean really tie you in with the loyalty packages.
    Yeah they were playing videos like that on the TV screen in the cabin, I have heard good things about Perfect Day at Coco Cay though. Ideally if it's just your ship docked in and having the place to yourself.
    I follow the Cruise subreddit over on Reddit and there can be mixed reviews of places like San Juan, Nassau, Roatan, Grand Cayman. Same with some of the Jamaican ports like Falmouth, Montego Bay, Ochos Rios - people usually comment they are a bit dodgy and often just stay on the ship. Personally would definitely still get off for a look around, would be a waste otherwise!

    Royal Caribbean tend to change up places if their feedback and statistics are showing cruisers found a particular stop boring/unsafe or whatever. I remember we stopped at Port Vila in Vanuatu a few years ago and it's a bit of a dive tbh. Fairly rundown and looks like no maintenance or upgrades in anything in 20 years. I notice RC don't tend to stop there anymore and that itinerary usually now has Mystery Island, Vanuatu.

    Yeah RC know what they're doing with the "Next Cruise" thing, they're good at getting people back in and it works as you always see people throwing down their deposit for the next one!
    I would like to try Carnival, MSC or one of the other cruise lines at some point though just to compare with RC.


  • #63
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,283 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Ye might as well enjoy them while ye can, unless Musk can come up with some super green cruise ship powered by the sun, sea, wind and seagull sheite, cruise ships will eventually be a thing of the past due to the pollution they cause.

    "The US EPA estimates that a 3000 person cruise ship generates 210.000 gallons of sewage weekly. In 2014 cruise ships dumped more than 1 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the ocean. CO2 emissions of a cruise ship is more than 1000 times greater then a train journey."

    Not my thing anyway, if the seasickness didn't get me, the people probably would. I think there are far better holidays to be spending that kind of money on!


  • #64
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    The Antarctic cost serious bucks like €10k. They only do smaller ships and you have to cross the drake straits which are either calm or choppy, no middle ground.

    I don't think my Mobility Allowance would run to that !

    And like others, I am a loner and prefer to organise my own way and my own time.. The fact of being tied to a boat..

    Not that I will ever go anywhere but down the lane here!

    If you enjoy it GREAT. I mean that


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Myself and missus went from San Francisco to Miami via the Panama canal.
    Took 18 days or so.
    There were no kids on the ship.it was one of the best holidays we ever took.very chilled trip.
    Mexico, Guatamala,costs Rica ,Panama ,Colombia were some of the stops.


  • #66
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,812 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    BrownFinger wrote: »
    Myself and missus went from San Francisco to Miami via the Panama canal.
    Took 18 days or so.
    There were no kids on the ship.it was one of the best holidays we ever took.very chilled trip.
    Mexico, Guatamala,costs Rica ,Panama ,Colombia were some of the stops.

    What sort of money if you don’t mind me asking is that going to set back two people ? Sounds brilliant just wary of the cost, the couple I’ve done have just been a week.


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  • #67
    Ludo
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    Snow Garden wrote: »
    I could not imagine a worse holiday than being stuck on a massive cruise ship. The whole concept is quite disgusting.

    I thought the same before I went on one. It was nothing like what I expected. Went on another a few years later and currently booking one for later this year.


  • #68
    mlem123
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭mlem123


    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    If we all just stayed at home nothing would happen.

    Nobody said that?

    Also the fact there's no legal requirement for lifeguards on board even if it has 10 pools? Would you want to bring kids to that?

    Just stating why I hate the idea of cruises, like the way you've been allowed to state why you like them


  • #69
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    mlem123 wrote: »
    Nobody said that?

    Also the fact there's no legal requirement for lifeguards on board even if it has 10 pools? Would you want to bring kids to that?

    Just stating why I hate the idea of cruises, like the way you've been allowed to state why you like them

    Well on Royal Caribbean there were life guards on duty and rotated regularly, so that s not true .


  • #70
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Graces7 wrote: »
    I don't think my Mobility Allowance would run to that !

    And like others, I am a loner and prefer to organise my own way and my own time.. The fact of being tied to a boat..

    Not that I will ever go anywhere but down the lane here!

    If you enjoy it GREAT. I mean that

    The Stock Market is collapsing this morning. A great time to invest and make money.


  • #71
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Strumms wrote: »
    What sort of money if you don’t mind me asking is that going to set back two people ? Sounds brilliant just wary of the cost, the couple I’ve done have just been a week.

    We did a whole wedding on a total budget of €8k but that was all in with wedding and drinks package and dinner one night for 10 people Italian Dining.
    Now we had a balcony and mini suite. I am sure you can get inside cabin or one that has no windows. because you spend so little time in your cabin. Then where you want to go? Caribbean Asian should be mid coast. Hawaiian Arctic and Antarctic would be most expensive. Med should be cheapest. Then there is the choice of ship. there is also the season you go in.

    Watch Cruise tips TV for three months before you start making decisions. Make sure you get in writing that you have pre purchased a drinks package, no verbal.


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  • #72
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Ye might as well enjoy them while ye can, unless Musk can come up with some super green cruise ship powered by the sun, sea, wind and seagull sheite, cruise ships will eventually be a thing of the past due to the pollution they cause.

    Its actually getting more popular! More and bigger ships are being built and ordered as we speak.


  • #73
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    I used work on the ro-ro many years back so would spend a week on, week off working on the boats - loved it. I’d be just bit worried about getting stuck with people or not being to lose people you wanted to shake on a cruiser - thAt would be my big worry.

    A few people I know have gone on royal carribben and my brother went on an Alaskan one aNd a CarribbeN one and they all were wildly enthuiastic - and these men are not given to enthuiasm normally!

    OP - my brother did his Alaska cruise ex USA and it was extremely affordable - might be worth a google. His photos were incredible - I am white with envy.


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