School me on cruises.....never been on one

DSM Turbos said:
And there is always a way to bring booze on board.

Mouthwash bottles carefully taken apart to keep the plastic coating, shampoo bottles, etc.
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Or you could just suitcase airplane bottles onboard.

I smuggled a few bottles into a high rollers resort on the Dead Sea years ago with success just to find out the drinks were free. Just my luck.
 
So I googled cruises and there is SO MANY choices. How do I know which site is the best deal. Do I go directly to the cruises website and book a package or is it best to go through a TA to get a good deal.
And also I was looking at different itineraries for different cruises and some of them have you at a destination for just a few hours. Sounds pretty shitty to me. Is that normal?

I don't know which destination would be best to go to. There are so many options!
 
CasterTroy said:
I've only gone on 1 cruise and that was my LAST one!

Royal Caribbean from Miami to the Bahamas and coco cay.

My wife kept telling me "You're going to HATE a cruise" but did I listen?

First off, I hate people. I hate lines. I hate crowds. I hate public pools. Why in the WORLD I wanted to go on a cruise is beyond me, but lesson learned I guess.

We had a balcony room (which l kept me from gong on a killing spree) but everything else was just infuriating. The only meal I enjoyed was the sit-down dinner where we had reservations. All other meals were 8served "Golden Corral" style where you have buffet stations and wait behind 30 different nationalities of "rude bastard" to be served by someone who flunked Burger King's stringent serving line training (I.E. they couldn't even offer up the shittiest fast food service etiquette).
The pool was ALWAYS filled with flatbillers and one-uppers holding bottomless drinks sitting on the edge with their side piece while the water was camouflaged by kids using it as a toilet. We DID enjoy sitting on the upper deck people watching for a while though. My wife always pointed out the fake breasts for me to critique.
Off-boarding to Coco-cay took 2 hours waiting on the main stairs for a 40 person boat taxi to go from the ship to the island. Once on the island you had a choice of 3000 chairs near the buffet huts serving grilled dog and cat, or walking around the island. There wasn't a square foot that wasn't occupied by others.
The only part about the cruise I liked was when we ported at the Bahama's and we took a cab over to Atlantis. This is where we should have vacationed! Just flew down to the Bahamas and stayed there for the week. I was sad to actually have to get back on that "city bus in the water"
As much as I paid for that cruise, I was really surprised at how many ghetto hood rats there were on the same boat. It was if there were free tickets passed out with food stamps that month. Overall, worst experience I've ever paid for.......OH, and then there was off-boarding thru TSA......yeah I just about went postal in the terminal.
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This was my experience in a nut shell. I did not want to interfere with the op's desire to go. My only highlite was it was my honeymoon.....both previously married with kids......so well you know.
Anyway the absolute best thing to happen was all our excursion were cancelled on St Martine. Absolutely shitty windy pouring down rain. I talked two other random couples into hopping a private cab. We got a behind the scenes tour, dropped off at a little market, hopped a few bars, and finished at the little dive beside the airport where everybody gets blown into the water.
Dudes ended up being big wigs for Terrapin brewery. The neatest company we had all week.
 
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