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Cruise Bucket List - Your Dream Cruise Before Your Die?

Dan Askin

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UtterCaro

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If we're really going for the gusto, then I want to PURCHASE the 6 bedroom, 6.5 bath penthouse apartment (currently for sale) on the World with enough money to get on and off the ship at my leisure wherever the ship may be. I SPECIFICALLY want the cruise portion that includes 3 days in Monte Carlo with the helicopter from the ship to the casino after 11:00PM (full formal dress code) PLUS the 3 days during Cannes that the World is docked for the Film Festival.

 

I'd be happy to have you as my neighbor, greatam. I can lend you some 22-button gloves if you need them in Monte Carlo, and we can smile at all those people who think black tie is formal. ;)

 

Caro

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On our achievable bucket list is a crusie to Hawaii, the med, and South America. We also want to return to Alaska and Bermuda, and also do an east coast Canada and New England cruise.

 

But since we are dreaming and money is no object, I would pick the Queen Victoria cruise for January 2011, I would board in New York, go through the Panama canal and on to Hawaii, back through the Panama canal, and cruise the Caribbean and back to NY, and across the ocean to Southampton. I would then spend the rest of the spring and summer in Europe doing land tours, but I would also do both a baltic and a med cruise at some point. In the fall I would board the Queen Mary 2 and cruise back to New York.

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A cruise thyat goes to all 7 continents and stops anywhere tat I would like to stop along the way for as long as I want to spend there. Among the stiops would be Galapagos , Alaska and Antaractica as well as Iceland. The cruise would have no specific duration other than my desire to end it ( yeah, right).

I would have all necessary equipment- scuba, etc, available at my immediate disposal

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On my bucket list is a cruise-inspired vacation. 1-2 weeks on St. John. LOVE that island, but can only afford to visit it for a day while on a cruise docking in St. Thomas. Someday, I want to go and STAY, so I can visit more of the trails, ruins and beaches! Ahhh...

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I'd love to take a year or more, buy a private yacht, take my oldest DS out of school,and the 4 of us, 2 boys and DH sail the world. and fish too! Start in FL, work our way up the coast, head for Ireland,and Scotland and England, then the Netherlands, ease back around the coast to Normandy, the Portugal and Spain, Nice, then Italy. Just going around!!! and Greece.

Then keep on going! Just where ever we feel like. Just my DH and kiddo's.

Im not looking at a globe right now, but somehow Id like to wind up around Thailand, and Vietnam. then stroll through the waters towards Iwo Jima, {I know I cant get on the island,but Id love to see it} work our way south, to Guam, then The Phillippnes, then on to the Solomon's. then island hop back to Hawaii.... If you cant see a pattern here,Im a history nut,esp WW2,so Id love to sail to most of the places I've read about....If anyone else,close friends and family wise wants to come,then so be it!

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I'd be happy to have you as my neighbor, greatam. I can lend you some 22-button gloves if you need them in Monte Carlo, and we can smile at all those people who think black tie is formal. ;)

 

Caro

 

Sounds like a plan!!!! I'd really have to go digging for the gloves-Mom had a couple of pairs I used a couple of times. May have to borrow yours!!! When are we leaving???

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Right now I have a couple of cruises that aren't too big of a stretch on my list:

 

1. British Isles cruise, followed by a transatlantic with stops in Iceland and Greenland (now if it were only possible to ensure the stops would all be made, weatherwise.....)

 

2. Asia (starting in Australia, with a few stops there, then on to China, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.)

 

 

I'd also love to do a gulet cruise along the coast of Turkey for several weeks. For those who don't know, a gulet is a traditional wooden Turkish yacht.

 

Similarly, I would like to do a Nile cruise on one of the old wooden dahabiyyas.

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Mine seems to be convenient and somewhat possible in the next couple of years. I would love to take a British Isles Cruise. Starting at London then north to Scotland taking in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Oban. Playing at least one hole of golf somewhere in Scotland. Visiting at least one Whisky (that is the way it is supposed to be spelt) distillery. Then to Belfast, and Dublin. Fortunately it seems to be a common cruise. Just have to get the money and time together.

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I'm doing it this summer - I always dreamed of cruising Alaska even before I met my DH.

My DH gave me a holiday anywhere in the world as a 40th birthday present, so I chose to cruise Alaska.

 

OK it doesn't take a lottery win to make it come true, it takes months of hard graft to pay for it (no cheap cruises for us Brits) but it's going to happen, so my dreams are coming true already.

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Australia/New Zealand......Asia (which included OKINAWA) and SOUTH PACIFIC (including GUAM)......the latter is a DREAM as there are no cruise ships that stop here....maybe ONEDAY!!!

 

Hey Starfish,

 

As to ships stopping in Guam, I'd look into Sun Princess and Queen Mary 2 <winking emoticon>.

 

Dan

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Porthopper2009

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We are retired and money is not an issue. Would love to do a World Cruise.

 

But major health problems keep us from doing that.

 

Like you, my husband and I are retired too. We are also lucky enough to do what we want.

 

I have never been on a cruise until two years ago. We were watching the news report about Queen Victoria on her world cruise maiden voyage. The next day we booked for 2009 world cruise. I am happy that we went on the cruise. We met some wonderful people. One of those people was receiving chemo on the ship. She is getting better. We will cruise together again in 2011.

 

There were many people had problem on our cruise. A 94 years old woman who could dance all night but could hardly see. Many time she called me to take her around the ship. At least three men were on a wheelchair, one of them the wife had feed him. A woman had to carry her oxygen tank with her.

 

What I am trying to say is GO FOR IT. My mother had two bone marrow transplants. She gets sick very easily. When my parents travel my father take her physician with them. If you have to take your.

 

Take care.

 

M

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We have been very fortunate to do many of the cruises we have dreamed of over the years.

 

Still on our list is the Panama Canal (living in California, can always do this one), an east coast cruise to Quebec City is another we will do soon, and a cruise from San Francisco to Australia, including Tahiti.

 

If money was no object, a world cruise would be very exciting. We would have to win the lotto to do this one.

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Dream cruise - Around the world, beginning in my home port of Baltimore Maryland. Curcumvent the globe stopping at all the ports that allow cruise ship including transiting both Panama and Suez Canal. And at half of the ports spending a minium of three full days there. My cabin would be an aft balcony suite so every morning, afternoon and evening I could spend on it just in utter amazement of this wonderful world we call home.

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We all have a dream sailing in mind, that ultimate voyage we'd like to sail off on that big cruise ship in the sky. For some, it's a cruise to the urban landscapes and pagodas of the Far East or a river cruise along South Asia's legendary Mekong. For others, penguins and giant tortoises are the draw, and the bucket cruise would be a rugged expedition to Antarctica or the Galapagos. Some might say it's about the company they cruise with, and the perfect last cruise (before the electric chair) would be a weeklong Caribbean sailing with family and friends.

 

Whatever your dream cruise, be it a 100-night world voyage on a mega-ship or a luxury yacht cruise in the Mediterranean, we'd like to hear it.

 

Remember: Ignore real world constraints like money or vacation time … and be specific ... so we can live vicariously.

 

We'll share the results later this week in a member's speak out piece about bucket cruises!

 

I did mine. A Panama Canal cruise in a forward facing balcony. Here is my review ...

 

http://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=38933

 

And here are a couple hundred photos I took from my prime spot while going through the canal ...

 

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562720921fzjepy

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