Cruises as Vacations - Top 10 Reasons
This year over five million people will enjoy a cruise vacation.
Do you know why discount cruises are so popular?
- Cruises - Great Vacation Value
Cruises are excellent value for your money. Your cruise fare includes all meals, your
cabin, daytime activities onboard the cruise ship, nighttime parties, and nightly entertainment.
Use our chart to compare a cruise vacation to a land vacation.
- Cruises - at your own pace
On your cruise you can do as much or as little as you like. You set your own
pace, there is no pressure. The Cruise Staff on the ships are there to make sure you have
a wonderful vacation.
To see some samples of Daily Activity Newsletters, click here:
Carnival's Fun Ships
Royal Caribbean
- Cruise Ships Don't Stay Still
On a cruise vacation you will be taken from one exotic destination to the next,
while you are asleep in your cabin (or perhaps while you dance the night away). When you
wake up in the morning a new port-of-call will be there for you to explore.
On those days when your ship is "cruising" you will discover the true meaning of
the word "cruise". You will love the feeling of freedom during these days at sea, away from the
rest of the world.
- Your Fellow Cruisers
You will soon find that people are so very friendly when on a cruise. If your
first cruise is to the Caribbean, you will find that all kinds of people take cruises:
singles, couples, and families of all ages. You will make new friends and have all kinds
of things in common to talk about.
- Cruise Ship Food
Fine dining is an important part of you cruise experience. Let's take a look at
some samples of your five course dinner menus:
Carnival Cruises Fun Ships Menu
Celebrity Cruises Five Star Menu
Royal Caribbean Menu
On many cruise ships you will also have the option of either more casual and/or intimate
dining in a "bistro" or "cafe" style restaurant.
For breakfast and lunch you can choose between the dining room and a buffet style
restaurant. The choice is yours - maybe for breakfast you just like to go to the buffet,
and then have lunch in the dining room. Breakfast can also be "continental
style" in you cabin.
Don't miss the afternoon snacks and ice-cream; or the traditional "afternoon
tea" (or coffee) with a selection of the pastry chef's favorites.
- Birthdays, Honeymoons and Anniversaries on your cruise
The atmosphere on a cruise is a perfect setting for romantic honeymoons as well
as for festive celebrations. For all those special occasions to celebrate, a cruise
vacation has all the right ingredients.
Honeymooners especially appreciate those cruise ships with Sunday or Monday departures.
- Reunion Cruises
Families, Friends, Clubs, Corporations, Churches and Organizations - all kinds of
reunion groups of all sizes can be found on a cruise ship. The opportunity to spend time
together in the atmosphere of a cruise ship is the most important reason for these
reunions. The second reason is the fact that very little organizing is needed by the group
leader, since everything is arranged by the cruise agency and the ship's staff. Meeting
rooms and special parties can be easily arranged, and for larger groups there are also
special discounts.
- Cruise Ship Service
On a cruise ship service is an art form. From the moment you step aboard, the
ship's friendly staff seems to always be there for you. They know that service is their
profession and they are proud of it. It is a service that is attentive yet never
intrusive. First-time cruisers are always amazed at this high level of personal attention.
- Shopping in the cruise ports
For those U.S. passengers who want to do some shopping, a Caribbean cruise offers
a chance to use a higher duty-free allowance. While the normal customs allowance is $ 400
per person, a person returning from a Caribbean Basin country has an allowance of $ 600
and a person returning from the U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John) has
$ 1,200. For details see U.S.
Customs. These high allowances has lead to the presence of a multitude of shopping
possibilities, especially in St. Thomas and San Juan.
- "Your Ship Is In" - A cruise ship for everyone
With more than 200 cruise ships of every type and size, there is today a ship for
every taste and every budget. Primarily all the "major" cruise
lines - Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, Royal
Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Holland America Line - are building
new cruise ships, but also several other cruise lines are having more and
more added to their fleet.
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