Who on the bitch has been on a cruise?

Okay, this looks like possibly the greatest trip ever.

Roxy, could you arrange for Dream Pharrell to somehow replace the real one?

it was quite awesome, though i was 12 at the time. played a lot of mini-golf and arcade games.

6 months later, the ship sank. we think it was insurance fraud.

Classic: the way the people who served food doubled up as the singers in the evening, the suprisingly luxurious cabin.

Dud: the formal table arrangments for dining. Some people brought suits with them specifically for this...

I'm going on my first cruise in a few weeks.

I was never interested in cruises; figured I would turn to them only if I could no longer travel independently due to infirmity.

Now I have an 80 year old mother with compromised mobility and a paraplegic brother (extremely independent and athletic, but still: wheelchair); they wanted to have a family adventure and cruising seemed the way to do it. . .

So, cruising.

(Cue Dead Milkman song)

I think there are dialysis cruises? That seems like something I'd like to do if I was on dialysis (please god no).

I took my parents on a fancy cruise last year for my mother's 80th birthday, and can absolutely confirm that it's the ideal thing for a mixed-ability family group. I also loved the fact that we never had to think about what we were doing for dinner in the evenings. We just went to the same restaurant at the same time and they brought us different food every day. It was great. They even gave my dad distilled water for his cpap machine every day, and there was a sharps bin in the bathroom. All very senior friendly.

This is encouraging! I’m sharing a cabin with my cpap-wearing mom, hadn’t even thought about that bit. I’m planning on going off on my own for most of the port stops except for one, when I will do a wheelchair-accessible tour with them.

We went with Oceania, which is pretty high end, small ships, all that jazz. The staff were really good to the older passengers. There was one woman on our ship who was by herself, who walked with a frame with great difficulty, and they basically treated her like a duchess. Someone would give her their arm to bring her in for dinner, if she was at the buffet restaurant, one of the servers would go and make a plate for her and bring it back. She was a good customer, though. Drank cocktails, a bottle of wine on her own at dinner every evening (they make all their money off the gratuity automatically added to your bar bill), and so on, so she was popular with the staff.

Cruises can be fun. You have stops in nice places like Jamaica and Saint Marten.

I've never been on a cruise and the resort on a boat has never appealed to me, BUT I have been eyeing Great Lake cruises, which seem more my speed.

I'd be more interested in an Alaskan or European river cruise than a Caribbean one.

Just avoid the HMS Norovirus or the USS Legionnaire

last week I was on my first (probably last) cruise, one of the alaska ones up through ketchikan, juneau, skagway, then victoria, departing from seattle. a family reunion thing my dad threw together as his generation is getting towards 80. It was a good time but man was i ready for it to be over after a week.

remember a couple/few years back when all these people signed up for an around-the-world cruise? It was *really* expensive and then I think it was cancelled... and maybe they didn't get their deposits back or something?

i have not, but i literally reset my dn yesterday due to the relentless advertising for cruises in my stream, so i'm validated

Xp it was a perma cruise that people had sold their homes for. Then it was cancelled and a lotta people were fucked. I don’t think the company had acquired a boat or anything

A river cruise on a smaller ship would have been my preference, I think, but apparently those ships aren’t as wheelchair-friendly. This is a Crystal cruise, I think 700ish passengers? Which sounds ginormous but I guess a lot smaller than like a Carnival cruise or something like that.

My idea of hell would be a Disney cruise.

I've gone on a couple of cruises (my employer paid for them as a general bonus), to St. John's New Brunswick and to Bermuda. I don't remember which cruise lines these were, but casinos and rollercoasters at sea are not to my taste. I suppose my ideas of cruising are out of 1930s films and books.

My mother wants to go on an Alaskan cruise, and my sister and I are hoping to make this happen next summer. I've told her that she'll need a new passport, but there's no sign she's following up on that. (I know I wouldn't want a passport with (REDACTED)'s mug on it.)

No-one's mentioned music cruises yet. I've never been on one but I could certainly imagine going on one if the line-up is worthwhile. Cayamo for folkies and Cruise to the Edge for prog rockers.

Tom Waits cruise on a rusted-out barge

During my first cruise the entertainment featured a comedian whose whole set was about a past gig on a nudist cruise. File that under "I don't want to kink-shame, but I really don't want to hear the details."

The only temptation a cruise offers me is being able to be forced into a spot where I have to chill so I can catch up on reading, art, etc. I probably wouldn’t leave my room much.

i went on a couple music cruises like 15 years ago, thought i would find it annoying but ended up having a lot of fun. i havent been since but would happily go again, even a non-themed cruise. for me a big part of the appeal is just being at sea, so the idea of being in an all-inclusive hotel in the middle of the ocean outweighs annoying kids, corny entertainment, etc.