"Oh the places you'll go"

[SS Cruise Lady]

What factor is most important to you when you select a "port" for a cruise? Please do not "whine". My apologies to Dr Seuss.

[Druke I]

Not whining - but difficult to make a choice.

 

I usually choose a cruise for its itinerary, followed by ship & price - I don't really have much choice on "port" - more choice on what part of the world I want to see.

 

Guess I'll just have to pass on this particular poll.

[bepsf]

I'm all about seeing new places, but I tend to choose the ship before the itinerary...

[Prince]

I want as many days at Sea as possible!

 

Prince

[Queenk2]

I love new places. I always choose my trips by itinerary. I have been many places, but NEVER enough!

Karen

[CHEZMARYLOU]

As I sit here listening to the sleet and freezing rain hitting the windows my choice has to be a sunny & warm climate.

[Outlanderssc]

I'll usually go for the onboard ammenities first, ports second. But all things being equal I'll take a port I've never been to -

[JimnKaren]

We're trying to see how many ports of call we can get before we are unable to cruise. Big map in the bedroom has many, many push pins for all the places we have been. Of course there are other places, but most have been in the Caribbean. As long as the cruise lines keep adding new ports, then we gotta keep sailing away.

 

Jim

[alpal1993]

Since we are limited to the number of vacation days we get a year,going to some place new would be the most important.We also live in South Florida 10 minutes from the Port so we are Carribeaned out.This year Bermuda,and then saving for Med cruise although we will probably have to wait till 2008.

[SS Cruise Lady]

Since we are limited to the number of vacation days we get a year,going to some place new would be the most important.We also live in South Florida 10 minutes from the Port so we are Carribeaned out.This year Bermuda,and then saving for Med cruise although we will probably have to wait till 2008.

 

Living in the Northeast, my husband and I now think of Carribean Cruises as simply a temporary escape from the cold that is much cheaper than a comparable land based vacation, while we consider other types of cruises to be memorable travel experiences. However, we didn't always feel this way. When we took our first Carribean Cruise thirty years ago, we were on the only ship in port that day in both St Thomas and St Martin. At that point in time, these ports had not yet been destroyed by tourist traps and overcrowding, and were quite charming.