Category: Cruising Styles
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The Family Cruise Gets Harder When Your Kids Are Different Ages
A three year old and a fifteen year old want nothing to do with the same vacation. One wants a splash pad. The other wants to be left alone with friends and food. This is the family cruise problem nobody warns you about. It is easy to picture the family cruise as one happy group…
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The World Cruise Is a Test of Time More Than Money
A world cruise is not a long vacation. It is a temporary way of life. You unpack once and stay unpacked for four or five months. People fixate on the price. That is the easy part to understand. The harder question is whether you actually want to be gone that long. Here is what the…
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Small Ship Cruising Is the One Most People Never Try
The ship you sail on decides where you can go. A big ship cannot fit into a small harbor. A small ship can dock in the town square and let you walk off into the middle of it. That is the whole pitch for small ship cruising. Fewer people, smaller ports, and time to actually…
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The Theme Cruise Is a Different Animal and You Should Know Before You Book
A theme cruise is not a regular cruise with a costume night. It is an entire ship taken over by one idea. Sometimes that idea is a band. Sometimes it is a decade. Sometimes it is a knitting club with strong opinions. Here is how it works. A production company buys out the whole ship,…
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The Repositioning Cruise Is the Best Deal Nobody Talks About
Twice a year, cruise ships have to move. Summer in Europe becomes winter in the Caribbean. The ship does not teleport. It sails across the ocean to get there, and you can be on it. That sailing is called a repositioning cruise. A ship finishes its European season, then heads west to Florida and the…
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Solo Cruising Is Not the Sad Table by the Window
Cruising alone has a reputation problem. People picture one person eating dinner while couples clink glasses nearby. That picture is wrong, and Norwegian Cruise Line has spent fifteen years proving it. Norwegian launched the first dedicated solo cabins on Norwegian Epic in 2010. These are called studio cabins. They are small inside rooms built for…
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Expedition Cruising Is Not a Cruise, and That Is the Whole Point
An expedition ship does not have a water slide. It has a fleet of Zodiacs and sometimes a helicopter. That tells you almost everything. This style of cruising is built around getting off the ship, not staying on it. The vessels are small on purpose. Quark Expeditions runs the Ultramarine, a polar ship that carries…
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River Cruising vs Ocean Cruising: Which One Is Actually For You
Most people picture a massive ship when they think about cruising. That picture is not wrong, but it is incomplete. River cruising is a completely different experience, and the people who love one do not always love the other. Ocean cruising is about scale. Ships like those in the Celebrity or Norwegian fleets carry thousands…
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River Cruising vs Ocean Cruising: How to Know Which One Is Actually for You
Most people who ask me about river cruising have already taken an ocean cruise. They liked it fine. But something made them curious about the rivers. That curiosity is worth following. Ocean cruising is bigger in almost every way. The ships carry thousands of passengers. The ports are often beach towns or island capitals. The…
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River Cruises vs Ocean Cruises
River cruises and ocean cruises are about as similar as a Prius and a pickup truck. Both will get you places, but the experience could not be more different. Ocean cruises put 3,000 people on a floating resort. You get Broadway shows, waterslides, and seventeen dining options. The ship itself is the destination. You might…