Here’s another one of those buyer-beware warnings…<\/p>\n
Who wants to be the middle-aged woman accidentally going on a cruise for cougars (they exist)? Or the pick-your-strict-whatever individual who gets on a cruise ship and finds at least a portion of it is dedicated to nudists (it also happens)?<\/p>\n
They are called “theme cruises” and they run the gamut of special interest. You name it, there’s a cruise for it…so just let your imagination go on this one.<\/p>\n
The message here is make sure you check with the cruise line (or your travel agent) before booking to find out if there’s a large group of special-interest folks on the ship. It’s not that you have to participate in what’s going on during the cruise, but the special-interest activities might limit or impact in some way on what you want to do.<\/p>\n
On one of our recent cruises, we overheard this sarcastic remark from a young woman sitting by the pool:<\/p>\n
“I can’t wait to get back to San Francisco<\/a> to tell everybody I spent my wedding cruise with a bunch of [expletive deleted]!”<\/p>\n And that’s the point. Check it out first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s another one of those buyer-beware warnings… Who wants to be the middle-aged woman accidentally going on a cruise for cougars (they exist)? Or the pick-your-strict-whatever individual who gets on a cruise ship and finds at least a portion of it is dedicated to nudists (it also happens)? They are called “theme cruises” and they… Continue reading Suggestion when Shopping for Cruises<\/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":[25,36,19],"tags":[204,86,35,46,447,321],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","tag-cruise-ship-entertainment","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-cruising","tag-special-interests","tag-theme-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","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=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}