I lost my partner of 30 years one year ago. Up until his death, we had taken 41 cruises. I will continue our journey by myself, but it takes a lot of legwork to not just pay double the rate. We were 5 stars on HAL, but I now am branching out. Cunard has certain promos where they have a solo cruising sale. Celebrity awhile back had no single supplement on certain cruises. Also Virgin has had promos for single sailors. Seabourn has a page for solo cruisers. Seabourn’ s single supplement is 1.5 on select sailings. Although its more expensive to begin with , when you add gratuities, drinks, etc on a HAL cruise at 200% sometimes is just slightly more that a HAL cruise. Again, it takes a lot of work, but I will continue the journey . I also on every cruise i have taken, put some money in the slots. What the heck , you never know. Not a lot. Never know when you might get a casino rate. Just go off a Princess cruise where I actually won a small amount instead of donating.
And yes, the first ones were more difficult than you can imagine, but it’s what we loved to do. I just put his passport next to mine and say let’s go.