Luxury Cruise Vacations

Of any vacation I can think of, the most enjoyable I have been able to take has been vacations on luxury cruise ships.

We have enjoyed vacations in Hawaii, along the Oregon coast, on the tip of Baja Mexico and various parts of Washington and Canada. But, the cruise vacations are the most relaxing and enjoyable by far than any of those.

On cruise ships, we travel from port to port by sea and don't have to arrange transportation, or worry about keeping a schedule. We always port on time and we aren't even aware that we've done it because we are usually asleep.

Our meals are available to us at any time. We can have the meals brought to us or walk just a short distance to extravagantly prepared and served meals. Supper time is the time that we all gather together after our day of relaxed and enjoyable activities.




The activities on board a cruise ship abound beyond what a novice would think possible. To name some of the possibilities:

• Various games
• Gambling
• Dancing
• Exercise classes
• Saunas
• Massages
• Yoga
• Swimming

The real reason I love these vacations, though, is that there is no work involved. We don't have to find a place to eat or prepare it ourselves. We don't have to clean our rooms up, they are picked up at least twice a day and if we asked, it would be more often. Our clothing is washed and ironed at very reasonable cost, so we don't have to do that either. There is nothing we have to do. How can a vacation be better than that?

Think of it. Nothing you have to do. You can do things. You can leave the ship if you'd like because they dock at different ports during each cruise so you can go ashore. You can exercise. You can dance. You can leave your room to eat. But, you don't have to.

During our last cruise, I figured that if we had decided to stay in Portland and do the things that we did that first day, we would have paid for the whole cruise.

We:

• Traveled (think cab)
• Ate a five course culinary delight
• Went "out" for a Broadway show
• Enjoyed a movie in a theater
  
• Spent the night in a top-star room (think hotel)
  
• Ate a steak breakfast for room service the next morning

The whole cruise was $380.00 for the two of us.

All in all, we just did things we would not have done if we weren't on a cruise ship. Even if we were on vacation somewhere, we would not have done all these things because the expense and time would have constrained us.

That was the first night.