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Grumpier Than Uncle Joe
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« on: May 20, 2015, 01:51:16 PM »

discuss.
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2015, 02:29:39 PM »

Option 3. I wouldn't want to take my whole family on one, but going with a small group of friends would be kinda cool.
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« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2015, 02:33:02 PM »

great if you're a boozer, restless and intellectually stultifying if you're not.
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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2015, 02:45:12 PM »

David Foster Wallace had the definitive word on this activity, I think.
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2015, 04:37:22 PM »

Awesome.

I went on a Caribbean cruise over winter break and loved the food/pool/activities and especially the island stops.  Curacao is truly the best.
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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2015, 04:53:35 PM »

Freedom Vacation as long as you're employed and can afford to pay your own way.
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2015, 05:06:32 PM »

It's an alternative to staying in hotels.

With few exceptions, the most interesting cities are on or near a navigable waterway.
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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2015, 10:31:12 PM »

I mean, I've never been on a cruise, but it sounds like you just lounge around and eat food and drink alcohol for like a week while stopping in tropical ports every now and then to walk around? That sounds fun to me? Not sure why people are so against it.
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« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2015, 10:33:39 PM »

I mean, I've never been on a cruise, but it sounds like you just lounge around and eat food and drink alcohol for like a week while stopping in tropical ports every now and then to walk around? That sounds fun to me? Not sure why people are so against it.

Sounds boring as f[inks].
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« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2015, 10:49:34 PM »

I mean, I've never been on a cruise, but it sounds like you just lounge around and eat food and drink alcohol for like a week while stopping in tropical ports every now and then to walk around? That sounds fun to me? Not sure why people are so against it.

Sounds boring as f[inks].

...you walk around and travel to play a game of tag for fun
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« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2015, 11:25:53 PM »
« Edited: May 20, 2015, 11:28:42 PM by I left my heart in the back of the cab »

I mean, I've never been on a cruise, but it sounds like you just lounge around and eat food and drink alcohol for like a week while stopping in tropical ports every now and then to walk around? That sounds fun to me? Not sure why people are so against it.

Sounds boring as f[inks].

...you walk around and travel to play a game of tag for fun

Uh tag?

Ask Bacon King, it can actually be a very adrenaline filled thing that feels like something out of a Bourne movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-g2N5AixA
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2015, 12:03:28 AM »

I can see doing them if you stop at multiple spots with multiple cultures and want to experience such.  Personally a European barge cruise sounds more fun than a Caribbean cruise, and frankly I don't see the point in doing a three- or four-day mini cruise.
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« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2015, 09:50:59 AM »

They can be FVs, but I prefer staying at a particular destination.  There often isn't much time to explore the stops.
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« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2015, 10:01:12 AM »

I mean, I've never been on a cruise, but it sounds like you just lounge around and eat food and drink alcohol for like a week while stopping in tropical ports every now and then to walk around? That sounds fun to me? Not sure why people are so against it.

The Baltic seems more interesting. I'd rather visit Stockholm, wouldn't you, then go somewhere to lie upon a beach?

Tropical cruises sound as if they are made for lazy people.
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« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2015, 10:34:22 AM »

Oops wrong forum for this question as well.  Damn man.  Cry
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« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2015, 01:32:15 PM »

Oops wrong forum for this question as well.  Damn man.  Cry
Hmm, I wonder who might be taking a cruise...
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2015, 01:49:08 PM »

Oops wrong forum for this question as well.  Damn man.  Cry
Hmm, I wonder who might be taking a cruise...

The NEW "he who shall not be named" at the risk of maximum death points, perhaps?
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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2015, 03:28:21 PM »

Not my kind of thing, no (for one, I would not want to be on a ship for that length of time with that many people), but I know several older couples who have gone on quite a few of them and really enjoyed them. In fact, they book them months and months in advance. And it's not the party crowd. Buffets are open 24/7, there's a lot of jazz music, gyms, running tracks, etc. But even so, yes, it's easy to run up a big bar tab that you're hit with before you disembark. Tongue If you can't pay it, I don't know, maybe they keep you.
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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2015, 09:14:31 PM »

I mean, I've never been on a cruise, but it sounds like you just lounge around and eat food and drink alcohol for like a week while stopping in tropical ports every now and then to walk around? That sounds fun to me? Not sure why people are so against it.

Sounds boring as f[inks].

...you walk around and travel to play a game of tag for fun

Uh tag?

Ask Bacon King, it can actually be a very adrenaline filled thing that feels like something out of a Bourne movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-g2N5AixA

Capture the flag, then.
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« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2015, 09:30:29 PM »

Hey, you know what would make a boring hotel vacation better? If you couldn't leave and there was an above-average chance of getting stranded in the middle of the ocean!
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« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2015, 12:08:13 PM »

Went on a few im college and law school years. Great fun. Would like to take the wife on one, but she LITERALLY gets sea sick in a hammock. Tongue

Definitely FV
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« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2015, 12:33:47 PM »

My parents go on several a year and have since retirement (15ish years now I'd guess).  They love 'em, I don't understand the appeal.  They neither drink nor gamble.  They've done Europe and Egypt and several longish Pacific cruises and have been through the Panama Canal a couple of times....which all seemed fun, but mostly it's been in the Caribbean.  Seems boring to me.

but whatever <ahem> floats your boat.
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« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2015, 05:45:15 PM »

Never been on one.  I'm sort of down on them because I spend a great deal of my free time on Caribbean Islands, and nothing is worse than being in town when the cruise ships show up.  The cruise ship crowd really has a way of cramping every one else's style.  Erstwhile fishing villages are developed far beyond capacity in a futile chase for the yankee dollar.  Nevermind the ecological devastation wrought on the reefs and other marine ecosystems when they dredge and build the gargantuan ports of call.  What really frustrates is the fact that the little pipes below the little huts and other island infrastructure are so strained.  Toilets that can barely choke down shit are inundated with 20 or more squares of tissue with every flush.  Wooden bridges creak as oversized, belching yankees bound across them in flipflops and extra-large floral camisoles.  Tiny markets are stripped of supplies by sheltered retirees with more money than sense.  Of course the whole arrangement provides cash for a select few, but that cash rarely makes it into the hands of those who need it most.  It's a loud, obnoxious time when the cruise ships come, and the ports of call are best avoided during those times.  As for the reefs, I'm sure they'll rebound in another 30 years, assuming the sea doesn't warm up so much that they all become bleached
 
Having said all that, I'll admit that I'd probably go for it if one were offered for free.  Say, if I won a cruise around the lesser Antilles I'd probably accept it.  Voted for option 3.
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« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2015, 05:57:23 PM »

If I was going to go on a cruise it would have to be in Alaska. The scenary, the places, would be more fun in any place other to me.
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« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2015, 06:24:49 PM »


Having said all that, I'll admit that I'd probably go for it if one were offered for free.  Say, if I won a cruise around the lesser Antilles I'd probably accept it.  Voted for option 3.


Maybe Bushie's cousin and granny will pony up enough for you to go for free, brother.
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