Howdy,
Just got back from a 7 day caribbean cruise out of NY this evening. My wife, 10 year old, and me.
The good bit is that they seemed to have an ok time.
As for me, basically I'll summarize as "I spent $4k to learn that I never, EVER, want to go on a cruise". Holy crap did that suck. Trapped on a boat jammed together with 4k people in a floating Vegas Casino. Noisy and crowded everywhere, at every hour of the day. Oh, and for the first time ever in my life managed to get motion sickness. Which is still fucking me up even now, ~12 hours after I got off the damn thing.
There were some good parts. Two of the onboard restaurants were nice, seeing the Kennedy Space Center was cool, and riding a Segway for the first time in Nassau was fun. But that good stuff pile is pretty small compared to all the crap in the "holy fuck, I PAID for this?" pile. Now I'm sitting here at home with the weebly wobbles or whatever the hell and I'm wondering if I'm going to even be able to skate tomorrow.
And I missed fucking Winterfest for it too.
Tell your friends: Cruising. Not even once.
Mark