The going nowhere cruise.

[chromered7]

Are we meandering towards a cruise where the ship spends more time docked than actually at sea?

 

 

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[rain_bowbrite]

why you say?

[Cruise or Lose!]

It really depends what you enjoy. Much as I look forward to visiting the ports, I cruise to be on a ship at sea. It is the sea that calls me, not just the eventual destination.

 

 

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[cb at sea]

If we are going to the trouble of GETTING to the ship...we want to GO SOMEWHERE! I could rent a freaking boat to sit offshore....that's not my aim!

[Silvery Seas Cruiser]

I love being at sea, especially at night. I'm not especially fond of spending overnight in a port, least of all in ports that offer little of interest to me to do there. I'll compromise and agree to late departures such as midnight, but to spend all night in a port---that isn't why I cruise. Maybe the crew and staff enjoy overnight port stays. It might be a little vacation for some of them.

[annbarker23]

For me the more destinations the better. Don't mind the occasional sea day but always prefer port intensive itineraries. A matter of personal choice of course.

 

 

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[nhsails]

Perhaps in Caribbean.

[bigbenboys]

For us our next cruise is my 50th cruise. It will be my 28 cruise with Celebrity. Yes the destination does come into play. We like the Celebrity cruise ships and the people that are working or on vacation. We are really liking the Suite Life. Factors are weather here at home, just time to get away, where do we want to go, lets go see that again. Could I go on a 7 day cruise in the Caribbean and not get off the ship, YES. I do like staying on the ship while most people are off seeing the sites.

[Minoushka]

Try a transat ...not much need to get off ..real vacation ..allthoseseadays

[Fish Lover]

AS far as I am concerned, I'd like to get on the ship, wander around the ocean for 2 weeks and then come back and disembark.

 

Not really interested in any 8 hr stops at any port.

[Jane2357]

If I wanted to be at a dock - I can go out back and sit on my own boat. Being at sea, there is something about that - magic.

[justcrusn]

We would take a "cruise to nowhere" as long as it CRUISED.

We love sea days!

[chemmo]

We love cruise itineraries where there are some new destinations to see and one or two places where everyone else gets off and we can enjoy the ship.

 

By 10.30ish most evenings we like to be on the balcony with a last brandy, the shrimp or cheese platter left by our butler enjoying the sea, stars and sound of the waves....

 

 

We have experienced a few overnight stops....if we had a view from our balcony I was OK with it but too frequently these stops can be in industrial yards....We clearly remember watching cranes moving containers back and forth in Muscat! Not quite what we had imagined! At least our deck was high enough up to be looking over the containers.....