What’s up internet it’s 2010 and we are in the cold month of February feeling a little stir crazy with all the indoor time and really looking forward to some travel time later on this year. I was poking around some of the travel sites just looking for some new vacation ideas on where to go for our vacations this year. You know checking out what the “hot deals” are right now and merely dreaming that I can really afford what they call a cheap travel deal.
It seems that what I consider a cheap deal on travel and what the online travel sites are willing to offer up as a cheap vacation package are two different things! Oh well I suppose that if I am going to go anywhere this year that we will have to come to some sort of agreement on the price of my next vacation.
I actually came across an article over here that is talking about the good news that has been going on in the cruise industry. I just figured that all of the travel market was in the tank right now but apparently I was wrong in my assumption and you know what your teachers always told you about making assumptions? Anyway back to the point of the article I was reading, it was talking about the positives of the cruise industry and the fact that attendance is up and the amount of money invested in new ships to the fleets is up as well. They highlighted the latest monster of a cruise ship the Oasis of the Seas, have you seen this thing yet? Wow does this ship look like a floating all-inclusive vacation city on the water.
It really does look amazing and is part of the fleet over at the Royal Caribbean which from what I have heard has a really great fleet of ships if you are into taking a vacation cruise. I say that I have heard because I am not a big fan of the vacation on the cruise ship. I do have one experience on a Carnival cruise ship about fifteen years ago and I realize that a lot has changed for cruise ships in the last fifteen years.
There was actually nothing wrong with the ship itself as it was a great ship to be on, I think the name of it was the Ecstasy which if I remember correctly had some sort of fire incident a few years back as well. Don’t mind me I am just in a rambling and writing mood today Back to my cruise experience though like I said the ship itself at the time was very impressive and a top of the line ship back in the day I am sure.
However the ocean itself was not very cooperative and made for a miserable trip. We went from Miami to Key West to Cozumel and back to Miami the first night on was the captains dinner which for those of you that don’t know is a night when everyone gets dressed up in evening gowns and tuxedos if you have them gentleman. Here’s what I remember about this evening is the infirmary where people stood in line all dressed up for what is basically from what I understood from my Jamaican speaking nurse was like a super dose of dramamine in a syringe. People were online getting shots in the ass to put them out because the ocean decided to toss our ship around like a rag doll, SUCKED! I remember making it back to our cabin where I had to strap myself into the bed so I would not get rolled out and not waking up until after we were already docked in Key West. Had I woken up in time I would have gotten off that ship and found a way back home from there but fortunately for me (not really!) I got to stay on the ship and get shot in the ass one more time on the way back from Cozumel… wooohooo what a great time that wasn’t!
I have had plenty of people tell me since then and try and convince me that the kind of experience I had on that cruise is very rare and I should give a vacation cruise another try. If not for the fact that my wife has never been on a cruise and it is something that she would love to do I would probably never consider doing this type of trip again but every year I seem to get a little close to convincing myself that I should give it another shot. Seeing the vastness of that new Oasis of the Seas has me thinking really hard about it until I spotted the pricing for a week on that boat and saw that I could go buy a nice Jeep Wrangler for the price it would be for a family of four, YIKES Batman that is not happening anytime soon!
Maybe I am just setting my sights to high in looking at prices for the latest and greatest ship and perhaps I will do some more price poking around for a more family friendly price for a cruise vacation. Anyway what was I talking about when I started writing this post? Oh yeah looking to plan some vacations for 2010 none of which as of right now anyway will involve being on a big boat in the middle of the ocean but maybe someday
Looking For Vacation Ideas For The New Year
What’s up internet it’s 2010 and we are in the cold month of February feeling a little stir crazy with all the indoor time and really looking forward to some travel time later on this year. I was poking around some of the travel sites just looking for some new vacation ideas on where to go for our vacations this year. You know checking out what the “hot deals” are right now and merely dreaming that I can really afford what they call a cheap travel deal.
It seems that what I consider a cheap deal on travel and what the online travel sites are willing to offer up as a cheap vacation package are two different things! Oh well I suppose that if I am going to go anywhere this year that we will have to come to some sort of agreement on the price of my next vacation.
I actually came across an article over here that is talking about the good news that has been going on in the cruise industry. I just figured that all of the travel market was in the tank right now but apparently I was wrong in my assumption and you know what your teachers always told you about making assumptions?
Anyway back to the point of the article I was reading, it was talking about the positives of the cruise industry and the fact that attendance is up and the amount of money invested in new ships to the fleets is up as well. They highlighted the latest monster of a cruise ship the Oasis of the Seas, have you seen this thing yet? Wow does this ship look like a floating all-inclusive vacation city on the water.
It really does look amazing and is part of the fleet over at the Royal Caribbean which from what I have heard has a really great fleet of ships if you are into taking a vacation cruise. I say that I have heard because I am not a big fan of the vacation on the cruise ship. I do have one experience on a Carnival cruise ship about fifteen years ago and I realize that a lot has changed for cruise ships in the last fifteen years.
There was actually nothing wrong with the ship itself as it was a great ship to be on, I think the name of it was the Ecstasy which if I remember correctly had some sort of fire incident a few years back as well. Don’t mind me I am just in a rambling and writing mood today
Back to my cruise experience though like I said the ship itself at the time was very impressive and a top of the line ship back in the day I am sure.
However the ocean itself was not very cooperative and made for a miserable trip. We went from Miami to Key West to Cozumel and back to Miami the first night on was the captains dinner which for those of you that don’t know is a night when everyone gets dressed up in evening gowns and tuxedos if you have them gentleman. Here’s what I remember about this evening is the infirmary where people stood in line all dressed up for what is basically from what I understood from my Jamaican speaking nurse was like a super dose of dramamine in a syringe. People were online getting shots in the ass to put them out because the ocean decided to toss our ship around like a rag doll, SUCKED! I remember making it back to our cabin where I had to strap myself into the bed so I would not get rolled out and not waking up until after we were already docked in Key West. Had I woken up in time I would have gotten off that ship and found a way back home from there but fortunately for me (not really!) I got to stay on the ship and get shot in the ass one more time on the way back from Cozumel… wooohooo what a great time that wasn’t!
I have had plenty of people tell me since then and try and convince me that the kind of experience I had on that cruise is very rare and I should give a vacation cruise another try. If not for the fact that my wife has never been on a cruise and it is something that she would love to do I would probably never consider doing this type of trip again but every year I seem to get a little close to convincing myself that I should give it another shot. Seeing the vastness of that new Oasis of the Seas has me thinking really hard about it until I spotted the pricing for a week on that boat and saw that I could go buy a nice Jeep Wrangler for the price it would be for a family of four, YIKES Batman that is not happening anytime soon!
Maybe I am just setting my sights to high in looking at prices for the latest and greatest ship and perhaps I will do some more price poking around for a more family friendly price for a cruise vacation. Anyway what was I talking about when I started writing this post? Oh yeah looking to plan some vacations for 2010 none of which as of right now anyway will involve being on a big boat in the middle of the ocean but maybe someday