I don't look like Jane Fonda, so don't meet his criteria. if I had the money I would like to go on a single seniors cruise.
If got scared every time I watched a disaster film, like Titanic, Day After Tomorrow and 2012, I'd go nuts! Do you fly on airlines? How would you feel if some yelled out "hope the plane don't crash!"? I went on one 3-day Cruise, with my wife, to the Bahamas, by way of Port Canaveral, FL. I had never been on a Cruise, but she wanted us to go while our health was still good so we could really enjoy the Cruise........of which we did. She had already been on one, to the Bahamas, with her sisters, after we first met. Since I had spent some years on the water in the Navy, this ship was a total pleasure for me. No "sea sickness" or anything. Great food (and plenty of it), nice entertainment and had fun in both Nassau and Freeport. Being on the water didn't bother us either, because we are into power boating as well. Would I go on another Cruise.........in a second! We'd love to go on a Classic Rock Bands Cruise, but finances just don't go that way.
Yes, I don't get sea sick at all. My last cruise was a wedding cruise for my niece from Colorado. It was a Caribbean cruise. Think the port was Fort Lauderdale. The ship stopped in Key West where they got married on the Beach. It was a week cruise and much fun but mainly because almost everyone in my family was there so besides being a wedding it was also a family reunion. The poor bride tends to get seasick and so does my sister and daughter but with the anti motion sickness pills they were fine.
Not me. I've been out on the Mississippi on some windy days with the wind blowing whitecap waves, in nothing but a flat bottom Jon boat. No sweat about that but, seems like an awful lot of cruises wind up with trouble of some kind. Fires, sickness and now storms. Don't like water so big I can't see land across it.
Cruising never interested me actually. I don't like to gamble, don't drink too much and I can dine out on land, or go to a pool on land. The ports of call interest me more than sitting on a ship, so I would rather fly to the destinations.
I had mentioned this thread to my husband. He said that during the era of the Airport movies where aviation security is an issue, tourists were somehow deterred to travel. He said that it's a good timing that there are no aviation issues when we started traveling in 2013. A family friend spent their Valentine's day in a ship. It is a dinner cruise in Manila Bay that promises to be romantic. However, it is very expensive to our standards that's why we never considered that. That friend said that the cruise is worth the cost though because of the sights - Manila bay is sandwiched by Manila and 2 provinces, i.e. Cavite adn Bataan.
I'm exactly the same Ruby...cruising has never interested me in the least for all the same reasons as you . ..
Apparently, they also have submarine tours down to look at the wreck of the Titanic, and one of them has gone missing somewhere in the Atlantic. They are frantically searching for it; but this does not look good because it has been gone for hours now and they have no idea what happened to it. I would think that they would have communication with the submarine base, so they must have lost all communication with whatever happened. The submarine tour is $250,000 apiece, and there are several millionaires who have already been reported on the tour. Makes you wonder if one of them knows something about Biden or the Clintons ?
I would never, under any circumstances, go on a cruise with anybody remotely connected to the Clintons.
After Bill's heart surgery, his doctor told him to stay away from fat. Bill got mad & yelled, "Hey, I haven't seen her for years!"
The latest update that i could find about the lost submarine is that it left early Sunday morning, and they lost contact about 4 AM that morning. they think that it might have gotten trapped somewhere inside of the wreck of the Titanic. there were five people on board, including several millionaires/billionaires and the CEO of the company that made the sub. It is apparently dangerous for a submarine to go down the 13, 000 feet to the depth of where Titanic is sunk off of the coast of Newfoundland; and it will be dangerous for them to send someone else down to try and find them, but they had 96 hours worth of air when they left; and that is getting low by now.
I would not go on a cruise because of crime show Cruise Ship Killers. There is so much crime (theft, assault, sometimes murder) on cruise ships, and it seems that a blind eye is turned to it. There was one episode where a passenger disappeared and the captain of the ship said "Must have been suicide." The guy's brother met up with the ship to check it out, none of the staff would talk to him about having even seen his brother. All he could confirm is that his brother had won a large sum of money at the casino. The guy got his brother's luggage, and it was filled with blood-soaked clothes. The captain said "Must have had a nose bleed." Besides that, I'd feel claustrophobic.
I've been following this story today. I heard there are less than 70 hours of oxygen. I'm wondering if the Coast Guard has equipment to get down 2.5 miles to look for them.
Here is a USA Today "live" article that claims to be routinely updated. While technically a "submarine," the vessel is really a small 21 foot "submersible" that is much smaller than what we would think of as a submarine. They are deploying a remotely operated vehicle to search the area, and have a couple of aircraft over the region. The submersible has long been used to transport archeologists to the site during10-day trips with 18 dives off a larger boat to a maximum depth of 12,800 feet. (I don't know if this is the max depth it can go, or if this is the max depth it has gone on these expeditions.) The wreck is at 12,500 feet. The first such archeological dive to the wreck occurred in 1986 in a different research vessel. Paid tours to fund the research began in 2021. It's the stuff of paranoid nightmares.
No cruises for me. I'd be concerned about the plumbing quitting during the cruise - as it did on this.....lovely one: https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/travel/crown-princess-toilets/index.html At that point, the bottom of the ocean would look very good to me.