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[MR MISTER]

I just can't see what the attraction is. As far as I've been told, you just eat, drink and shit for two weeks.

[Rog]

I just can't see what the attraction is. As far as I've been told, you just eat, drink and shit for two weeks.

Oh No No No    There's so much more to it than that !

You get to meet loads of people, who you don't like, with whom you have nothing in common, who will all be keen to join in whatever you are doing therefore spoiling it, and will want to keep in touch and visit you when you all get home. Fantastic !

Oh, I forgot. If you are really lucky there will be an outbreak of food poisoning of some kind (norovirus would be a good one) and as everyone is confined on a ship everyone WILL get it, and then maybe the ship will be isolated so nobody can leave. Wonderful !

I won't say anything about captains running ships aground while showing off to the ladies.

Now there must be more great things about cruises . . . . . 

[Kevin Wood]

I just can't see what the attraction is. As far as I've been told, you just eat, drink and shit for two weeks.

Oh No No No    There's so much more to it than that !

You get to meet loads of people, who you don't like, with whom you have nothing in common, who will all be keen to join in whatever you are doing therefore spoiling it, and will want to keep in touch and visit you when you all get home. Fantastic !

Oh, I forgot. If you are really lucky there will be an outbreak of food poisoning of some kind (norovirus would be a good one) and as everyone is confined on a ship everyone WILL get it, and then maybe the ship will be isolated so nobody can leave. Wonderful !

I won't say anything about captains running ships aground while showing off to the ladies.

Now there must be more great things about cruises . . . . . 

On the positive side, you could always jump overboard.

[Sir Tigger KC]

So there are good self preservation reasons for not wanting to go on cruises, in addition to not wanting to be banged up in a tin can with people you don't like for a week or more  . . . . . and not being able to just go home at any time

Not just me, then. 

Nope

There is a documentary series on TV about life on a cruise ship. It has totally convinced me never to do it. Actually, it would be a close thing whether to do a cruise or go to Dignitas in Switzerland  . They both seem to be very similar 

athough you may come home from the cruise

You might be so depressed by the cruise that you go straight to Dignitas! 

[omega3000]

I just can't see what the attraction is. As far as I've been told, you just eat, drink and shit for two weeks.

It didnt say that in the brochure 

[Rog]

I just can't see what the attraction is. As far as I've been told, you just eat, drink and shit for two weeks.

It didnt say that in the brochure 

The shitting comes free with the Salmonella or Norovirus 

[MR MISTER]

I just can't see what the attraction is. As far as I've been told, you just eat, drink and shit for two weeks.

It didnt say that in the brochure 

The shitting comes free with the Salmonella or Norovirus 

Mmmmmm.........I do like a bit of smoked salmonella.

[05omegav6]

Sounds like a perfect two week diet plan

Joking aside, having just watched the documentry, why bother ordering the watertight doors two minutes before abandoning ship Surely they should be shut at the mere sniff of a problem like an hour earlier in this case

Driving the ship into the shore was all well and good, but had she sunk properly in slightly deeper water, then anyone on deck and wearing a life jacket could have survived. But that said had she been in deeper water to begin with, she would never have hit the rock in the first place
Hey ho...

[Vamps]

We did the DP system on the cost a Costa Concordia.

You won't get me on a cruise ship, I now know to much about the construction, cheapest and lowest redundancy on the seas. Hence an engine room fire or loss of a switchboard and everything but the emergency generator systems are lost.......including propulsion.

So there are good self preservation reasons for not wanting to go on cruises, in addition to not wanting to be banged up in a tin can with people you don't like for a week or more  . . . . . and not being able to just go home at any time

I am like that, even at home I would rather drive, only when with really good friends would I consider going out in a group who have decided to hire a bus.......