Silly Reasons For Loving To Cruise

We all have sensible reasons why we love to cruise but what are the 'silly' reasons?

Mine is quite simply that on sea days I don't have to carry my handbag with me, just my seapass. DH is notorious when we are out for asking me to just 'pop this into your handbag please' and suddenly I find I'm laden with unwanted stuff - his.

What bliss not to worry about bag thieves, the knowledge I can go into the buffet/MDR for breakfast and lunch and not worry about where to put my bag, etc, etc.

I do carry a small bag usually for formal evenings and obviously on port days, but then you can't have everything :)

Not being connected to the outside world.

Not having any responsibilities (other than getting to dinner and excursions on time). :)

We feel like kids at summer camp....we just have to show up somewhere and someone will feed us or entertain us or take us somewhere. After looking after everyone else for the last 20 plus years, it is great to have someone else look after us.

Is that a practical reason or a silly reason? I would cruise just to hear the toilets "whoosh". :)

I like to feel the motion of the ocean while I sleep! I know some people hate that part, but for me it's a highlight!:D

How I agree. No handbag to breakfast, I cannot understand why the ladies have to take a huge portmanteau to breakfast, lunch and tea. I just take my cruise card and my glasses in a case so that I can read the menu when necessary.

For sunbathing on the deck, a bag with cruise card, towel, book/kindle and suncream is all that is necessary. (glasses of course).

Work cannot contact me! I am pager, computer and cellphone free. Double bonus is that my family cannot reach me!

D.W. doesn't snore when we are cruising... Go figure!!!:cool:

I love and agree with everyones responses so far...even the toilet whoosher!

I must admit I love the stand up comedy. It's something I never get around to doing in my everyday life that I just love to do. So when I have my little glass of vino and I'm sitting and waiting for the comedian all is right with the world.

Also, I love lounging on the cushionsy chairs parked right outside the casino and reading. So I can peek up at all the action every now and then and then escape back into my book....comfy sweater is a plus.

I love waking up at a new destination without having to pack and move. Nothing beats waking up on the sea :-)

I don't have to make the bed!

Since I don't cook, for me a silly reason is that I don't have to figure out what restaurant will provide my next meal.:D

No handbag to carry around is a really good silly reason. Thanks to the person above who mentioned that. So true!! It's very liberating just to carry a ship card in my pocket.

No one can call, text or email us.

No cooking or doing laundry (worst job ever if you ask me).

Having a balcony over the ocean :D:D:D

Hearing the *DING* when I slide my ship card through the machine.

Pulling hard to open a door.

Hubby is left at home to care for himself, his laundry and the cats ;)

Having drinks with my youngest son (19) after dinner.

The motion of the ocean and the mist from it.

Don't have to drive my car (I hate driving lately :eek:).

Letting the sound of the wake lull me into an afternoon nap.

Silly??? Maybe, maybe not. But they represent good times :D

Happy Sailing!

~Robin

Every Day at Sea is a Great Day

Nobody can get at me :D

Lovely afternoon naps :D

"Unwrapping" the freshly laundered clothing sitting in a wicker basket on our bed. Removing the gold seal, peeling back the tissue paper, and seeing washed, dried, and ironed clothes ready to be put away just makes me feel so special. Oh, and finding those little laundry tags in your clothing months later . . . great memories.

Smooth Sailing! :) :) :)

No concerns about Drinking and Driving! :D

Seeing the gangway being dropped and lines dropped

A feeling if no connection to the world as soon as they are gone

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I don't have to make the bed!

I am stealing your "silly" reason :D Ditto for me

When asked why cruising is so enjoyable I say it's a week of Assisted Living ......Bed, towels , room cleaned, meals and even entertainment are done for me ! Just relax and enjoy.:)

We like to shop on board.

Living in the land of Tim Hortons, I never have donuts....I think it is a terrible product when compared to any freshly baked good from a bakery. I love the choco glazed donuts on Princess and so look forward to them :)

Eating out.

We are too frugal to eat out at Restaurants at home. I wonder if we might save money using our cruise money to eat out instead but I am not making the calculations.

Since I don't cook, for me a silly reason is that I don't have to figure out what restaurant will provide my next meal.:D

I love going to Hawaii but everyday it's where are we eating lunch, dinner etc.

I love getting the next days planner on the bed the night before. It's always so fun to see what's available to keep me entertained. And I, too, love not carrying a purse. And when that means I make a few extra trips to the cabin, I don't feel so guilty ordering 2 desserts after dinner!

I have 2 reasons.

First, cruising satisfies the travel bug implanted in me by ancestors on both sides of my family(my paternal grandmother traveled extensively until she was in her 80s and my paternal grandfather was an immigrant. My mother's ancestors were in a covered wagon train). I live for seeing the world.

Secondly, I absolutely love losing myself in the ocean waves. It's hypnotizing to me. I live too far inland to make it to the ocean very much and, even if I could go more often, being in Vermont makes it much too cold to go anywhere near the ocean in the winter.

a great salad whenever i want

I love that feeling of pure bliss called "Cruise Mode". That magic feeling soon after you stroll up the gangway where you forget what day it is, work seems like a figment of your imagination and checking the dinner early posted dinner menu is a special event.

Jonathan:D