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One nice thing about my Mississippi River cruise is that, if the boat sinks, you just walk up to the 3rd or 4th deck and wait. The river is shallower than that.

The nice thing about European river cruises is that they all have only 200 or fewer people on the boat. That's because the boats must fit through locks.

One of my favorites was a combination trip where we flew to Zurich, stayed in Lake Lucerne for two days, went up the Matterhorn, took a short bus trip to Lake Geneva, and then up the Rhine via boat for several days ending in Amsterdam.

Several years ago we did a 7 day Disney cruise. It was a blast, very relaxing, great food, excellent service and entertainment and the ship was impeccably clean. I’d definitely go on another Disney cruise in a heartbeat.

I’ve been on one Carnival Cruise and wouldn’t go again with them.

I guess, much like the Disney parks, they have cruises that cater to the 270 crowd, I avoid those..............

no, I'm certain there are very good cruises and cruise lines.

My experiences (more than one) is Carnival is not one of them

I'm retired Navy, does that count? LOL

We went on a Princess cruise Alaska to Vancouver five years ago, had a great time, no problems at all.

Sort of.

I went in a Navy Tiger cruise. I have a real appreciation for the sacrifices or men and make to defend our country. I rode the Peleliu from Hawaii to San Diego.

Not me personally, but we saw lots of those big Alaskan cruise ships in Homer when we were up there and I felt a little sorry for those people all coming off those ships like a cattle car. We were out fishing every day limiting out on salmon and halibut and those cruise ship people could only watch and buy a few trinkets in town. We have friends that fly lots of places and take advantage of the reduced fare re-positioning cruises coming back into the states. The guy was an exec with Verizon and has millions of frequent flyer miles that they use now that they are retired.

I do that every day...........

Wife and I have been on several: Caribbean, Alaska (Land & Sea -DO IT), Mediterranean. All were good.

European River Cruise is next. We alternate, one year hunt somewhere, next year something else.

Cruise line matters, we like RC, don't like Norwegian. Alaska we were on Celebrity and it was great.

Eastern Med/Greek Islands was awesome, Alaska was awesome.

Alaska land & Sea we flew into Anchorage, bused up into Denali, bused down to Homer and cruised to Vancouver.

The wife and I enjoyed a guided combination tour and cruise to Alaska back in 2000. Tour had about 20 people and a guide that stayed with us 24-7 didn't have to worry about bags or transfers or worry about missing a departure. We knew that the cruise would have non-stop eats, so saved that 8 day's for last.. the first 8 days was land tour with 2 or 3 day holdovers in various places travel being by rail and bus. Guide we had was a beautiful girl in her late 20's that stayed with us from when we first landed in Seattle going until we finished our return by cruise ship, the whole thing was so well planed I gave her a $700 tip when we parted.


Always wanted to take her back to Germany doing the same thing with a Rhine river cruise but didn't make it. Last time I was there eating out at some of the gasthauses atop the cliffs overlooking the river was fantastic!


Phil

Just got back home from my 1st cruise.
Was my parents 50th, had a lot of fun with family, there was 15 of us.
Went to Labadee Haiti, Falmouth Jamaica, and Cozumel Mexico
While it was fun I wish we could’ve stayed at certain places a little longer.
I wouldn’t go on another cruise most likely but unless all my family was doing it and it was a special occasion.
We went Royal Caribbean (Oasis of the seas) and they treated us like Royalty.
I’d give them a big thumbs up.
Oh yeah....Labadee Haiti was our most favorite place, didn’t care much for Falmouth Jamaica wasnt as pretty.

My thoughts exactly. I've already seen the world . . . not interested in a modern day cruise ship.

No experience...no imagination...pity.

I have taken one and didn’t really care for it at all.

Yep - my wife got us a cruise this summer on Carnival - first time for me and I HATED every second of it.

Alaska.

Not only those but I have owned a cottage on an island that could only be reached by boat on Cedar Island on the CT coast line! Then we got larger boats and cruised the New England Coast line from Ct to Nantucket etc.

Cruises are a great way to take a vacation. My wife and I went on an Alaskan cruise in 2012 and thought it was fantastic. We liked it so much that we did it again in 2017. As someone said in an earlier post the crew treats you like royalty. First time we flew to Vancouver sailed north to Whittier then did a land tour to Denali and flew home from Fairbanks. In 2017 we flew to Anchorage, did the land tour to Denali then took the bus to the Copper River Lodge then down to Valdez and a catamaran over to Whittier. Having done it both ways I prefer flying to Alaska doing a land tour then sailing south to Vancouver. We have also done 2 caribbean cruises which I did not care for as much but it wasn't because of the cruise ships. We did Princess on both Alaska cruises and they were great.