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Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Hmmm...

I’m sure we’ll get to China one day. The flights to Asia just take so long each way it doesn’t leave us with enough days to spend there to make it worthwhile. Someday we’ll have the time to take longer vacations!

Sounds good to us!

Happy Cruising to all of you! We’re looking forward to hearing all about it when you get back!

Have a fantastic couple of cruises David! We’d love to hear all about both of them when you get back!

Have a fantastic cruise! We’d love to hear all about it when you get back!

Have a fantastic cruise! We’d love to hear all about it when you get back!

Have a fantastic cruise! We’d love to hear all about it when you get back!

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

Yep, then the officers can circulate and mingle. Celebrity Cruises does a pretty good job with this but they still have a receiving line for the first several minutes.

Welcome to CruiseCrazies! We all love cruising and this is a great place for help planning your next trip and talking about past adventures!

$2.99 for a 12-pack is very reasonable. At that price we’ll happily forgo the trouble of bringing our own along. This is one policy I’d love to see other cruise lines copy.

I remember reading about EasyCruise back when they were announced and this made me look them up. These links go to the cruise line and their first ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyCruise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyCruiseOne But I found this really descriptive of their business model: “Things like food, cabin cleaning and maid service were charged for when used.” The EasyGroup company stills seems to be around and doing okay but I’m not sure it would be the right fit for us. The EasyHotel model states: “Toiletries are not supplied and the use of the TV and housekeeping is additional.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyGroup

Very interesting topic Harold, thanks for starting it. Thinking back on our first cruises nearly 20 years ago, I don’t think the pricing has really gone up much if at all for the basic itineraries – I’m not sure that can be said about many things. Yes, the newest, biggest ships definitely command a premium price, and we’ve spent a lot more to visit Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, and so on (often with airfare being more than the cruise) but we still get great prices for the Caribbean. Regarding things like liquor, specialty dining, shore excursions, parking, etc: these are all optional – we’ve been on cruises where we’ve paid for all of these things and we’ve been on cruises where we’ve paid for none of them. Overall, I don’t think there’s a vacation option out there today that’s more economical than cruising.