6. Planning Your Own Shored Events
Feel like you’re bound in a tight itinerary and want more breathing room from your cruise experience? Some experts suggest instead of booking on-shore event all-inclusively with the liner, which might have you running from place to place, you should plan and pay individually for your own entertainment on-shore. The all-inclusive deals the liners offer usually jack up prices, rather than save you money. But one good thing about the boxed deal is if the events you booked with the liner lasts a bit longer, the ship won’t leave without you. However, if you book them yourself, beware the boat will not wait. Show up with your flip-flops, the wind in your hair, slide in the gate with your sun bonnet behind you, but don’t miss the boat.
5. Customize Your Cruise Profile, Up Your Potential
Have an entertainer or a theme cruise in mind and the myriad of options available to the public is practically limitless. To name a few: there’s the Cougar cruise, Startrekker cruise, Dancing with the Stars: At Sea, including competitive dance-offs, Top Chef on Celebrity Cruises, and Disney Princess Cruises to name a few. The Queen Mary II brings the first planetarium aboard a cruise ship in a ginormous luxury cruise liner. Or for a smaller, more in-tune voyeur, the 700-passenger Azamara, prides itself on defying the beaten path, and finding exotic hideaways, permitting its passengers to stay at destinations of their own choosing with late-night and overnight stays at ports for landlubbers not accustomed to the sea. There is even a Cougar Cruise, making us wonder if it’s a cruise or a dating profile, or both?
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