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People who don't like cruising


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Over the years I've cruised with a variety of different people. ALL but three have cruised again and one of those three is HOPING to cruise again soon.

 

Ironically, the two who don't want to cruise again were both with me on my FIRST cruise.

 

One found cruising too low-brow. Maybe it was because we went cheap and booked an inside cabin on Carnival. Nonetheless, I was HOOKED, but she felt the experience was too regimented, involved too many lines and included very basic accommodations. She prefers land-based vacations at upscale resorts.

 

The other traveled as a single in his own cabin. He's very social and managed to make a lot of new friends, but probably has little to no memory of the experience. (Except for the ENORMOUS cruise-account bill. He was pretty generous about buying drinks for EVERYONE after having downed a few himself.) He may try cruising again at some later date, when he's developed a bit more self-discipline.

 

I found NEW traveling companions and have continued to cruise. Except for a forced hiatus recently (economy), I have cruised pretty much annually since that first voyage - sometimes more than once a year.

 

Like you, I really don't understand how people could possibly dislike it. To paraphrase something I read on these boards: You spend a week on a beautiful ship, being treated like royalty, with a view of the ocean 24/7, having an endless variety of food and entertainment options available without having to drive or look for parking and a new port of call magically appearing outside your window every morning. What's not to love???

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Oh yes!!! I cruised with a very dear friend in 2009 to the Western Caribbean. We are both very compatible people and I thought I had really given her the 411 on cruising (her first cruise). Oh my goodness, I would never cruise with her again. She didn't seem to like the ship (Crown Princess - beautiful in my opinion), she didn't like the heat (what about Caribbean doesn't suggest heat?), she didn't like the entertainment, activities, food, waiting for excursions in the theater, tendering in Grand Cayman, and the list goes on and on. She didn't even enjoy herself out by the pool which surprised me as she goes to Las Vegas yearly and spends lots of time by the pool. She spend most of her time in the cabin watching TV or out on the balcony drinking beer. While I can advocate a balcony and beer - it has it's time and place. In the end, I was very happy she spent all her time in the cabin and balcony as that way I had a great time on the ship in the evening and on Princess Cays by myself while she stayed on the ship. I was very, very thankful. The only thing she did enjoy was Roatan and our private tour with Victor Bodden's tour and guide Tex. We still talk about that.

 

Happily we are still friends although she was a miserable cruising companion. I've cruised with several new cruisers through the years and had a great time but not with this friend! As a matter of fact, I don't think we are vacation compatible so probably won't do any vacations with her. Love her though:)

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A couple we've been friends with for many years have enjoyed visiting us aboard ships (when it was easier to arrange than it is now) and loved the ships but she has a deep fear of water. As long as the ship was secured with lines and not sailing, she was fine. She knew she was not up to actually being aboard a moving vessel. He wants to sail so badly but I doubt they will ever be able to.

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I appreciate on here we all like cruising.

 

Has anyone got any friends, relatives, neighbours etc. who have a short or longer cruise, hated it and will never cruise again ??

 

:cool:

 

We went with my 2 DBs, DM, and StepDad. DM was sea sick most of the time and StepDad complained about everything including:

 

1. Why would we take our kids (8 and 11 at that time)...vacations are supposed to be for adults:rolleyes:.

 

2. Too many people.

 

3. Why did we order them a fruitbasket & wine basket for them....waste of money.

 

4. Server too slow...don't they know his coffee should be in front of him before he sits down.

 

5. Steak too done, steak not done, fish under cooked, pie favorless, vegetables too cold....every meal had something wrong...

 

6. Shows are boring....why aren't they more like Branson.

 

7. The ship is too rocky all the time....Can't get any sleep.

 

These were just a few. We never invited them to with us again...either cruising or any other vacations. I can't stand constant complainers....especially when their complaints are baseless.

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I love cruising...hubby is a "take it or leave it" sort of guy.....he'll go if I insist, but he'd NEVER book a cruise on his own....just not his "thing". So-so food, not the kind of music that interests him, the casino isn't like Vegas at all....etc....he'd rather do something else!

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To those of us who LOVE to cruise it seems odd that others don't like it as well.

 

Our very good friends absolutely hate ocean cruises. They love taking the land trip tours.

 

While I'd rather have a root canal :D than be on a land trip tour (packing/changing hotels frequently), they love it because they can be a location over night.

 

To each his own.

 

LuLu

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Like you, I really don't understand how people could possibly dislike it. To paraphrase something I read on these boards: You spend a week on a beautiful ship, being treated like royalty, with a view of the ocean 24/7, having an endless variety of food and entertainment options available without having to drive or look for parking and a new port of call magically appearing outside your window every morning. What's not to love???

 

The only 2 people that I've known who do not like to cruise had the same response. Despite the stabilizers on the ships, they suffered from nausea throughout their entire cruise and were miserable. No remedy appeared to work. In my opinion, those are valid explanations as to why someone would never take a cruise again.

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I appreciate on here we all like cruising.

 

Has anyone got any friends, relatives, neighbours etc. who have a short or longer cruise, hated it and will never cruise again ??

 

:cool:

 

They didn't hate it, but didn't love it either and haven't ever cruised again. I'm sure they would go if we organized a family cruise again, but they didn't like it enough to choose it over something else (land based road trip) that they like better.

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Some people like to travel and immerse themselves in the local culture (ie: backpacking through a region and staying in hostels, eating in local restaurants, completely soaking up the culture.) To them, spending just a few hours in each port would be useless to them. Some people like picking a single destination and spending their time discovering the area while enjoying a hotel or resort. Some people are afraid of water. Some people get terrible motion sickness. Some people get bored by the rather structured life on board a ship, especially on sea days.

 

To each their own: two-thirds of the population have never taken a cruise - you don't have to have never cruised to know that a certain type of vacation would not suit you.

 

I cringe when I read threads on these boards asking for ways to convince family/spouses/friends that don't want to cruise to give it a try. Why can't we respect that these people may just intuitively know that cruising is not the type of vacation for them? Why try and persuade them? How about if they turned the tables on you? Wouldn't you get a little ticked off when someone keeps on pestering you to try something you just know you would not like?;)

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I love cruising...hubby is a "take it or leave it" sort of guy.....he'll go if I insist, but he'd NEVER book a cruise on his own....just not his "thing". So-so food, not the kind of music that interests him, the casino isn't like Vegas at all....etc....he'd rather do something else!

My hubby was a take it or leave it kind of guy until our 2nd and 3rd cruise, we are going on our 5th in 3 weeks:D finally hooked him as he loves to relax when he can....hooked another couple that we are with a lot, so I do believe if not every year, every other year we will be cruising

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DH and I wouldn't cruise if the big ships were the only option. We hate crowds and long lines and aren't into over-eating and partying. Typically we do land tours and explore the area, and feel bad for the people who have to hustle back onto the ship. If we wake up in the AM and it's raining we go to a museum and postpone outdoor activity till it clears up. Not possible if you're in port for that day only. If I have access to a pool, I want to swim laps and I do NOT to keep bumping into people with drinks with umbrellas in them.

 

Having said that- I researched carefully and found a ship of the scale we wanted and we absolutely loved it. So much, in fact, that after the budget recovers we're doing it again in 2014. I did notice that I was a lot more relaxed and refreshed after the cruise than I was after our land tours, and that DH didn't end up with bad colds that morphed into bronchitis (2010) and pneumonia (2011) that he got after we returned from land trips to Spain we'd taken in previous years.

 

I can definitely see why some people love cruising and some don't.

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I have a friend who was given a 7 day cruise and she hated it. She did NOT like being told when she had to be back on a ship! She was later offered another free cruise, and she declined. This lady obviously has control issues!!

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To be honest, I am still not quite sold on cruising. I truly enjoy being part of this forum and learning more about cruising, but from a personal standpoint...I need another cruise or two to decide if it's for me or not. There are aspects I enjoy, and there are aspects that I do not enjoy. The same goes for "traditional" land-based vacations. The question for me is - which one do I enjoy more. Currently, it's land-based vacations. That may change some day, but right now I am not completely sold on cruising.

 

The biggest thing for me is that I travel constantly for work, and love being part of the local culture...seeing things few tourists see, getting myself in to somewhat "sticky" situations where the true side of a country, good or bad, comes out, etc. You generally can't do that on a cruise - you pull up to a beach in Jamaica but it could be any beach in the world for that matter.

 

That isn't to say I dislike it. It just may not be completely for me as it is for most people on CC. That being said, like I said, I truly enjoy being part of this forum and learning more about it, which does keep the chances high that I will continue to at least give cruising a chance.

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I have a friend who was given a 7 day cruise and she hated it. She did NOT like being told when she had to be back on a ship! She was later offered another free cruise, and she declined. This lady obviously has control issues!!

 

I don't necesarilly agree that that is a control issue thing. I kind of have that same issue - let me be in control of my own schedule. I knew going in to cruising that this would not always be the case, and I am accepting of it...but it is one thing about cruising that I don't love.

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We have friends that we have travelled with several times to resorts in the Caribbean. We have always had fun and we seem to enjoy the same places, food etc. We discovered cruising a few years ago and fell in love with it. We have asked them many times to come with us and give cruising a try. They always refuse, saying they don't think they would like it, even though they admit our pictures look great of the places we've been and the food pics look delish. And we can't blame the fear of water - they own their own small sailboat and have no issue with sea sickness. They just refuse to cruise. :confused:

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We have friends that we have travelled with several times to resorts in the Caribbean. We have always had fun and we seem to enjoy the same places, food etc. We discovered cruising a few years ago and fell in love with it. We have asked them many times to come with us and give cruising a try. They always refuse, saying they don't think they would like it, even though they admit our pictures look great of the places we've been and the food pics look delish. And we can't blame the fear of water - they own their own small sailboat and have no issue with sea sickness. They just refuse to cruise. :confused:

Ha ha ha - that's a weird one :-)

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Of my two sisters, one loves to cruise and we've been on numerous cruises together and loved it. The other has never cruised and states she would hate it and refused to go the one time we invited her to join us. It's easy to not bother to ask her now, or even tell her we're going. Other things she states that she hates she will expound for hours on her hatred, so it's easy to not include her on many occasions.

 

My husband has a client who was curious about cruising, he and his wife have a motor home and always do land trips. He was finally invited to go on a (paid for) business cruise, a 3 night cruise to Baja on Carnival. My husband told him not to judge cruising based on that experience (we've been, yuck) if that had been our first cruise is would have been our last. Sure enough, he came back and had nothing nice to say about it and never wants to cruise again.

 

I also cringe when people want to try to convince family/friends to cruise when they are not interested. I also cringe when people tell others to try a short cruise first, usually on the oldest ships and the worst itineraries.

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I cringe when I read threads on these boards asking for ways to convince family/spouses/friends that don't want to cruise to give it a try. Why can't we respect that these people may just intuitively know that cruising is not the type of vacation for them? Why try and persuade them? How about if they turned the tables on you? Wouldn't you get a little ticked off when someone keeps on pestering you to try something you just know you would not like?;)
Exactly! Vacations aren't 'one size fits all'. :rolleyes:
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Exactly! Vacations aren't 'one size fits all'. :rolleyes:

 

Yes that is so true. The thought of going camping for a vacation would make me cry! YUK. But some people love it. To each their own. :)

 

I love cruising because I am looked after: no cooking, no cleaning, no worries, all I have to do is enjoy. That's my idea of a vacation.

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