Leaving mid way threw cruise

[3rdGenCunarder]

P&O lays claim to having invented cruising. Its website has a very interesting article on the history of cruising, and includes the following:

 

 

 

P&O and other lines that followed their lead initially used ships from their existing fleets. The first vessel built exclusively for luxury cruising was the Prinzessin Victoria Luise of Germany, designed by the general manager of Hamburg-America Line. The ship was completed in 1900.

 

All of which is interesting but has little to do with PVSA. I've not uncovered a date for the first actual cruise (not passenger liner sailing) out of the USA, but I doubt that it was before 1886.

 

Around the time P&O was inventing ocean cruises, Thomas Cook was running river cruises on the Nile.

[57redbird]

On a round trip Seattle cruise a week ago, the captain said he often leaves a couple of passengers behind in Ketchikan, but that was without luggage. [emoji79] This was in response to a question from a passenger who had been a couple of minutes late the day before (but made it).

 

On a return trip from Alaska, we did a pub crawl in Victoria, BC & couldn't find a member of the tour when we were to board the bus back to the ship....never did hear if "Danny Boy" showed up. He didn't have any luggage when he boarded the bus at the beginning.