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<\/a>That brings up Christmas cruises, although in our politically correct society everyone seems afraid to call them that. All cruise lines have “holiday” cruises designed not to offend potential passengers from any denomination. If you’re not committed to a traditional turkey-at-someone’s-house-every-year Christmas, being pampered on a cruise ship may sound as appealing as the annual dinner.<\/p>\nEspecially for the person cooking the turkey.<\/p>\n
What should you expect?<\/p>\n
From poking around a variety of websites where blogs and comments on blogs are posted by people who have cruised at this time of year, here are some of the things you can find on a Christmas cruise\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2022 Christmas decorations, often starting in late November or early December (just like at our house!) Oh yes, also warmer weather than you’ll likely find at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once upon a time (this is not a fairy tale), people marked their calendars by counting the number of shopping days until Christmas. There were days when you couldn’t shop then. Honest. No more, and now that Labor Day is over, the Christmas shopper in our house is beginning to get the itch. Including today… Continue reading Christmas Cruising \u2014 Is It Time Yet?<\/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":[15],"tags":[315,35,320,23,321],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-christmas-cruises","tag-cruises","tag-holiday-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-theme-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","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=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Christmas celebrations, as much to ease the homesick feelings of staff as to cater to the passengers who celebrate the occasion
\n\u2022 Songs (once called carols) and activities and religious services\u2026even Santa coming down the smokestack (Holland America<\/a>)
\n\u2022 Themed theater productions, elaborate buffets and anything to appeal to kids who might wish they were home digging under the tree
\n\u2022 If it happened to be a river cruise in Europe, Christmas the way it’s celebrated in Germany<\/p>\n