Cruising. Anyone do the BIG luxury cruise ships ?

[Dave7]

There is a tv prog tonight about a mega luxury cruise ship.
I can take 3800 passengers .
My worst nightmare.
I admit they look fantastic and the food etc looks amazing.
I have known people that love it.....so I am not knocking it.....it just not appeal to me.

 

[Julia9054]

Would be my idea of hell since my ideal holiday involves getting as far away from other people as possible. I know quite a few people who have done the cruise ships as musicians. A good way to make decent money in a short amount of time

 

[OldShep]

They sound awful to me. There is a couple in the village, I try to avoid, who usually do 2 or 3 cruises a year. Funny thing is they rarely tell you where they’ve been rather than who they sat with at dinner. Listening to them you’d get the impression the ship is full of solicitors, property magnates, chief constables and no painter and decorators ever on board.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Having never been on a cruise of any sort, I can happily indulge my prejudices to their full extent.

I cannot imagine anything worse than being in incarcerated in a viral incubater within a highly polluting steel shell containing what seems to resemble a cross between a giant shopping mall and a Trump casino for entertainment, stopping only to inflict brief misery on tourist cities unfortunate enough to have failed to have the prescience to ban these floating obscenities.

Off cycling and/or hiking again next summer.

 

[BoldonLad]

They sound awful to me. There is a couple in the village, I try to avoid, who usually do 2 or 3 cruises a year. Funny thing is they rarely tell you where they’ve been rather than who they sat with at dinner. Listening to them you’d get the impression the ship is full of solicitors, property magnates, chief constables and no painter and decorators ever on board.

They will be in "steerage" Class

 

[BoldonLad]

Having never been on a cruise of any sort, I can happily indulge my prejudices to their full extent.

I cannot imagine anything worse than being in incarcerated in a viral incubater within a highly polluting steel shell containing what seems to resemble a cross between a giant shopping mall and a Trump casino for entertainment, stopping only to inflict brief misery on tourist cities unfortunate enough to have failed to have the prescience to ban these floating obscenities.

Off cycling and/or hiking again next summer.

My sentiments exactly!

But, I have several acquaintances who absolutely love them.

Each to their own, I suppose.

 

[Drago]

Not my thing at all, stuck on a dinghy with 2000 people. Id be arrested for murder within 12 hours.

 

[Mo1959]

Would be my worst nightmare. Wouldn't even go if it was free!

 

[Dave7]

Not my thing at all, stuck on a dinghy with 2000 people. Id be arrested for murder within 12 hours.

12 hours...... that long ??

 

[Salar]

Watched one of those programmes the other night. Looked like Butlins on the sea. Absolutely awful.

 

[Dave7]

Would be my worst nightmare. Wouldn't even go if it was free!

Don't think I would even if I shared a cabin with you and Welshie. I would have to thunk about it but doubt it

 

[BoldonLad]

Watched one of those programmes the other night. Looked like Butlins on the sea. Absolutely awful.

I always think of it as being on holiday in a floating Working Mens Club... yuk

 

[byegad]

A friend of mine went on one a year. His description of almost 24/24 hour eating and 'dressing' for dinner leaves me totally cold.

 

[biggs682]

Thanks but no thanks I would rather wear lycra and ride carbon

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Would be my worst nightmare. Wouldn't even go if it was free!

Not only would I not go for free, should I find myself sentenced to a spell on one, I would happily pay good money to be released into the community!