holiday plans thread

[atomicpaul]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We're doing Carnival this time; I don't think we've cruised with them since our honeymoon, so we're giving them another try. However we've done several cruises with Norwegian, and they're always nice. Last time their steak and fries lunch was so tasty, my wife and I ordered it the entire cruise!

Let me know if you want any tips (this will be my 3rd time going there).

That's pretty cool. I've sailed Carnival to Mexico when it used to go out of Mobile, but that particular cruise no longer operates on that route. Lots of dudes in camo and people shouting ROLL TIDE on that boat. I later read it was rated the very dirtiest boat of all US-sourced cruises.

I am open to tips, this one out of Seattle will be the longest cruise I've had yet. It'll be my sixth time on a cruise.

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ya, I heard that before about getting stranded. I already am not a huge fan of traveling or foreign places in general, getting stranded would be such a nightmare. I’d make a beeline to the US embassy to phone for Trump to come save me

From what I’ve heard from family members the food is amazing and in big quantities on cruises, so they sit around and eat all day and gain like 10lbs. I hear there’s gyms on those cruises but my fam is pretty much completely against working out at all while on vacation, not even the athletic ones. So they just sat and ate all day on cruises and got fat

I’m going to be working out like crazy in SD. Place is like a meat market already, and every year the hottest get hotter. Gotta try to come correct

The food is pretty intense even on crappy cruise lines. They do usually have decked-out gyms but I'm usually just on the treadmill or something in the mornings, unless the boat has a track on one of the upper decks - I'd always rather do that kinda thing outside if I can.

The main thing a lot of people have trouble with is the motion sickness, but that only happens to me on the first day, briefly. There's drugs but they can make drinking tricky, so I use these stupid bracelet things that may or may not work: https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/wa...ode=5989&gQT=1

I think of all the things I don't understand about some people, the one I understand the least is the lack of desire to travel. I've met some people that don't even want to leave their home county and it's some tiny town in south Georgia that isn't even big enough to sustain a McDonald's. I've worked most of my career in travel-related industries and still do, but I'm generally game to travel almost anywhere, especially if I haven't been there before. Getting stranded can be a blessing in disguise, I got stranded in Amsterdam like 20 years ago and ended up having a great time.

That being said, I have no intention of ever returning to Arkansas if I can avoid it. If I ever get to go to both of the Dakotas, I will have been to every US state. Next year we're gonna try to go to Costa Rica if the plans work out, and for our 10th anniversary we're gonna try to go to Bora Bora, my wife's bucket list destination.