{"id":19532,"date":"2013-12-06T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=19532"},"modified":"2013-12-06T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T09:00:13","slug":"friday-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19532","title":{"rendered":"Cruisers misbehaving…refusing to act their age"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cancun<\/a>This is not your mother's…hairspray…morals…nor her idea of cruising:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

• In Mexico, an 84-year-old male cruise passenger disembarks from a Norwegian<\/a> ship in Cozumel<\/a> to go on a shore excursion, gets strapped under parasail and goes airborne from the back of a speedboat before landing on the beach while his 50-something children watch in horror.<\/span><\/p>\n

• A 62-year-old woman who can't swim and who is afraid of heights gets off the Coral Princess<\/a> cruise ship and climbs onto a float plane — in the co-pilot's seat yet — and flies to the top of Alaska's Mount McKinley<\/a>, landing on a glacier where she spends 15 minutes frolicking in the snow.<\/span><\/p>\n

• In Costa Rica, during a Caribbean cruise a 90-year-old great-grandmother leaves the ship on a shore excursion that takes her into the jungle and onto one of the zip lines for which that country is famous, despite the fact she has led a life which also brought her heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gone are the days of nodding off in the library while deep into a hardcover, or having high tea on the deck, or playing cards or one of the board games that <\/span><\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>almost nobody seems to play anymore. Cruise passengers may be old but many don't act old. <\/span><\/p>\n

This old-acting-young phenomenon should probably be blamed on the Bushes, who get blamed for everything it seems. The former President Bush<\/a> (41, not 43) celebrated his 85th birthday four years ago by jumping out of a plane and letting gravity take him to 100 miles an hour before landing safely on the ground in Maine.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Just because you're an old guy, you don't have to sit around drooling in the corner," Bush said. "Get out and do something. Get out and enjoy life."<\/span><\/p>\n

More cruise passengers than ever feel the same way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Norwegian Sky<\/a>
\n\t4 nights<\/span>
\n\tJanuary 6, 2014<\/span>
\n\tMiami<\/a> (return): <\/span>Grand Bahama<\/a>, <\/span>Nassau<\/a>, <\/span>Great Stirrup Cay<\/a>
\n\tInside: $149<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $39<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not your mother's…hairspray…morals…nor her idea of cruising: • In Mexico, an 84-year-old male cruise passenger disembarks from a Norwegian ship in Cozumel to go on a shore excursion, gets strapped under parasail and goes airborne from the back of a speedboat before landing on the beach while his 50-something children watch in horror.… Continue reading Cruisers misbehaving…refusing to act their age<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,31,15],"tags":[45,343,89,912,72,1482,35,720,30,102,126,201,680,1483,1484,93,1485,518],"class_list":["post-19532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-coral-princess","tag-costa-rica","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-demographics","tag-cruises","tag-glaciers","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-mexico","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-cruises","tag-norwegian-jade","tag-parasailing","tag-president-george-bush","tag-shore-excursions","tag-skydiving","tag-us-presidents","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}