WOT: anyone take any good or bad cruises?, cruiseships... Options

[HeloMech]

Where'd you go?

What company?

What time of year?

Was it good or bad?

Why?


Thanks!

[Boojum]

Princess Cruise, on the Golden Princess.

Our start port was San Juan, Puerto Rico, and we went through St. Kits, Aruba, Grenada and Margarita (Venezuela), and back to San Juan in that order, I think. The one thing I learned is that a cruise boat is basically a giant floating buffet.

It was a good time. The thing I most enjoyed was doing a katamaran sail trip at St. Kitts, where the captian was a great guy from Boston (he dropped out of MIT, and it was really nice down there so I can't blame him), and we had rum punch and beer flowing like water. Of course, with the Altitude Advantage ™, I didn't notice.

The thing I liked least was the fact that we were tied to a cruise boat. They give you a few hours at every stop, which kinda sucks. Then again, it's a blessing if you happen upon a place you don't care for so much (Grenada). Grenada would be a great place for a stop on the WRC rally tour with all the curby roads (the Taxi van drivers also pretend to be rally car pilots), but aside from that, it's a no go. I would have really liked to stay much longer at St. Kitts, Aruba, and Margarita (the gas was like 40 cents a gallon there, and it's a pretty cool place besides that). I'll have make it a point to visit St. Johns next time (not on a cruise).

I'd try an Alaskan cruise next time.

Seriously, they should rent Porsches and other sports cars on Grenada and get all the people off the road by 4:00 in the afternoon, charge $100 a lap and let everyone go nuts. They could easily have the Caribbean equivalent to the Nürburgring crossed with Laguna Seca, and they'd make a fortune.