How many cruises have you been on?

[Krazy Kruizers]

Started cruising in the 80's.  Know that I should update my signature as we are over 150 cruises (I did that signature around 2010).

 

Shortest cruise we have ever taken -- 14 days.

[jocap]

12 hours ago, Extra Kim said:

Define what a cruise is.

 

Is a 40hrs ferry cruise between two countries a cruise? To me, a cruise is when you cruise on a ship that's a dedicated cruise ship. At the same time, I do belive that a cruise on Hurtigruten would count as a real cruise.. But Hurtigruten does not have cruise ships.

What I did, when working out the number of cruises, was added one point to cover all the many, many nights at sea on ferries- eg a couple of times to Sweden from the UK which was 2 nights, or Portsmouth to Brittany- I just say one cruise to cover probably 40 years of ferries.

I've done 3 short cruises of just one week, but mainly 2 weeks or a month. I've been to a lot of ports, and tried a good few lines.

[pris993]

since 1982... best guess 65+  on nine different cruise lines... Princess, celebrity, HAl, cunard, cyrstal, Rccl, ncl, royal, sitmar

[SPacificbound]

From April 2013 through June 2017 we had 22 cruises for 257 nights. 

 

2018 we are out for medical. 

Edited November 3, 2018 by SPacificbound
correction

[CanobieFan]

My first cruise was in 2014. I've now done 7.

[ldubs]

On 10/31/2018 at 10:30 AM, 2Shoes2Go said:

DH has 10 more than me. 161 cruises on Carnival; 62 on Royal. We began cruising when we got married in 2007. 

 

We are approaching 30 cruises starting about 20 years ago.  There is a lot of respectable cruise experience being shared in this thread, but 223 cruises since 2007 is incredible.  Congrats!

[Tommy_dbt]

We have been to 4 Princess cruises. 

 

1. Alaska

2. Baltic

3. New Zealand

4. British Isles

[dreadpirate3]

We started cruising in 2008, and immediately booked another cruise for three months later. Cruise #6 in January for a 9-day Eastern Caribbean, and #7 in May for a 4-day Bahamas. Those 7 cruises are all on Royal Caribbean. We have our first Carnival cruise in 2020, then will be cruising with Royal to get to diamond level C&A.

 

35 cruise days so far.

[Tommy_dbt]

20 hours ago, Tommy_dbt said:

We have been to 4 Princess cruises. 

 

1. Alaska

2. Baltic

3. New Zealand

4. British Isles

 

We are on 46 days. ☺ 

 

Alaska - 7 days

Baltic - 14 days

New Zealand - 13 days

British Isle - 12 days

[LuCruise]

First cruise was in 1997 with a total of 5 cruises to date (4 Royal, 1 Disney).

We also have 4 others booked between Dec and March 2020 (all Royal).

 

Note..if we lived near a port, our number would probably be higher.

[MicCanberra]

There is certainly a lot of experience here at CC. It also seems that we are all addicted to cruising.

[lynncarol]

My first cruise, 28 years ago, was almost my last.  For our twenty-fifth anniversary, my husband surprised me with a cruise from NYC to Bermuda.  I got so seasick it took him ten years to talk me into another cruise.  Since then we have gone on approx. 29 more.  The first five of those were  5 day Caribbean ones, but once I got my sea legs and courage up we were off and running...and I have never gone on another that was under a week. In addition to the Caribbean, we have cruised in Alaska, the Baltic area, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, two River cruises abroad, New England and Canada as well as a 17 day transatlantic. My parents were avid cruisers too and until my father died at 93, regularly won the 'longest married couple' contest on board.

Edited November 4, 2018 by lynncarol
additional info

[panoramaofthepast]

Started in 2002 - #35 in December!

[Velvetwater]

7 cruises and 81 days...living in the UK means I can't just jump on a 4 day from Florida but I have sailed in quite a few parts of the world.

 

Maybe not cruising next year and country hopping around Europe instead.

[Go-Bucks!]

First cruise in 1989....have sailed on 16 cruises with a total of 159 days.

 

Next cruise, in Jan 2019, will more than double my previous total days.  Next cruise is for 161 days, so I'll have had 17 cruises and 320 days as of July 2019! 

[MicCanberra]

Wow, that is some cruise. Sounds like a world cruise and then some.

[Scrapnana]

First cruise I remember was a 3-day one to Nassau in 1960. Total is 16 cruises for 372 days.

[Bankshot]

We had cruised twice on Windjammer Barefoot Cruises out of Tortola and one NCL cruise out of Miami.  Then, in 2009, my wife and I were both diagnosed with cancer.  Soon after successful Chemo and Radiation treatments we decided we'ed better hit the waves.  We started booking four cruises per year and completed 56.  We were nine days into our 57th when I was put off the ship in Falmouth, Jamaica due to heart failure.  After five days in a Montego Bay Hospital I was air-lifted to Ft. Lauderdale where I recovered.  Our cruising days are over now but it's still the best way to travel.  We did four Transatlantic cruises, Alaska four times and the Panama Canal West Coast three times.  We also did Quebec, the Maritimes New England plus eastern and western Caribbean never having a bad day until Falmouth.

[Hlitner]

If you can remember how many cruises then it’s not that many 🤗 

 

Hank

[MicCanberra]

1 hour ago, Hlitner said:

If you can remember how many cruises then it’s not that many 🤗 

 

Hank

Possibly, the number of cruises may be easy enough, although remembering which cruises make up the number can be very difficult.

[John Bull]

3 hours ago, Hlitner said:

If you can remember how many cruises then it’s not that many 🤗 

 

Hank

 

 

Ha ha.

When I can't get to sleep, instead of counting sheep I count how many cruises, or how many ports or how many countries or how many airports I've visited, or how many cars I've had, or how many girlfriends.

Partway through I forget whether I've already included one, so I have to start again.

I'm asleep before I finish counting.

 

JB   

ps. OK, I lied about girlfriends. Five isn't a difficult number to remember  

 

[MicCanberra]

LOl, maybe count your admirers as well then.

[Zach1213]

Two. Still not sure how much I like cruising, but the second time (May 2018) was better than the first (February 2013).

[gooch47]

17 hours ago, John Bull said:

 

 

Ha ha.

When I can't get to sleep, instead of counting sheep I count how many cruises, or how many ports or how many countries or how many airports I've visited, or how many cars I've had, or how many girlfriends.

Partway through I forget whether I've already included one, so I have to start again.

I'm asleep before I finish counting.

 

JB   

ps. OK, I lied about girlfriends. Five isn't a difficult number to remember  

 

 

Except for the girlfriends part, I do the exact same thing.

[MicCanberra]

4 hours ago, gooch47 said:

 

Except for the girlfriends part, I do the exact same thing.

LOL.