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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Are you on board for a cruise?
Will you hit the high seas for vacation this year?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Some people are natural cruisers. Take our friends. They book cruises to the Caribbean regularly and occasionally ship out to Alaska and other far-flung places. Even my in-laws, who rarely travel, have taken up cruising with a group of their friends — and they’re loving it.
Each time someone we know raves about their most recent cruise, we enthusiastically jump on board and ponder taking one ourselves. Given that we have three young children, our most serious cruise inquiries have been of the Disney variety. We have almost booked a Disney Christmas cruise on a couple of occasions, but something always gets in the way that time of year.
Check out the ajc.com Cruise page for more information and travel ideas.
And for whatever reason, we don’t naturally think of a cruise when we plan our summer vacations. We love to ponder new destinations, and I think that’s where our problem lies. I don’t know if we’re just an impatient lot, but we tend to focus too much on our vacation destination and not in the trip itself. We just want to get to where we’re going.
True cruisers will tell you the fun’s all in the getting there. The cruise IS the vacation - not necessarily the ports of call. So maybe we landlubbers just need to grow some sea legs, sit back and enjoy the ride.
The Southeast offers loads of jumping off points for cruises to many beautiful places. Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Disney, Norwegian, and Princess are some of the cruise lines that depart from ports within a manageable drive or a short flight from Atlanta. There, you can board a ship to Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, islands throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, the Panama Canal and even South America.
So tell us…Where’s your favorite place to take a cruise? Do you have a favorite cruise line? What’s the best thing about these trips? Can you offer advice and tips for the novice cruise-taker? What happens if you get sea sick on board? Is it worth the cost to upgrade from an inside cabin to an oceanview or balcony room? How far ahead of time do you need to book your cruise?
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