#2 2016-06-04 21:33:05
Anybody here ever been ON a cruise? I've seen a couple of these ships from a distance and they just look like big top-heavy boxes. It all sounds to me like paying to be trapped in a hotel with tiny rooms that may sink and drown you/make you seasick/experience an epidemic of some horrible disease. Why do people do it?
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#3 2016-06-04 21:56:50
George Orr wrote:
Anybody here ever been ON a cruise? I've seen a couple of these ships from a distance and they just look like big top-heavy boxes. It all sounds to me like paying to be trapped in a hotel with tiny rooms that may sink and drown you/make you seasick/experience an epidemic of some horrible disease. Why do people do it?
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#4 2016-06-04 23:38:25
George Orr wrote:
Anybody here ever been ON a cruise? I've seen a couple of these ships from a distance and they just look like big top-heavy boxes. It all sounds to me like paying to be trapped in a hotel with tiny rooms that may sink and drown you/make you seasick/experience an epidemic of some horrible disease. Why do people do it?
Floating Mall.
I don't go to mall's either, it's just not a very High-Street thing to do.
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#5 2016-06-04 23:45:25
George Orr wrote:
Anybody here ever been ON a cruise? I've seen a couple of these ships from a distance and they just look like big top-heavy boxes. It all sounds to me like paying to be trapped in a hotel with tiny rooms that may sink and drown you/make you seasick/experience an epidemic of some horrible disease. Why do people do it?
We've been on a Princess Cruise to Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway. Princess has smaller ships and are always allowed to dock at the port. The other Cruise lines with the big behemoth ships usually have to drop anchor and ferry their passengers back and forth.
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#6 2016-06-05 06:25:15
Yeah, no thanks. I have no desired to to be trapped in the same place as that many people who enjoy cruises.
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#7 2016-06-05 07:56:10
XregnaR wrote:
Yeah, no thanks. I have no desired to to be trapped in the same place as that many people who enjoy cruises.
I second that.
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#8 2016-06-05 11:44:02
Bigcat wrote:
XregnaR wrote:
Yeah, no thanks. I have no desired to to be trapped in the same place as that many people who enjoy cruises.
I second that.
Pretty much my gut reaction as well. And I'm a tacky person--I love going to Vegas; I love wandering around the stores, playing, watching spectacles, etc. Totally bourgeois. But I think I'd feel different about the Vegas Strip if there were no roads out.
P.S. Choad: Thanks for that article. I'm still perusing it.
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#9 2016-06-07 22:09:09
I've been dragged along on three of them. It's a good way to get through some serious reading without having to get up all the time to procure beverages. But other than that, just go to any mall in the Midwest on the hottest day of the year, find the restaurant with the unlimited buffet and hang out there. It's exactly the same experience.
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