RVs replacing cruise ships? What vacations might look like post-COVID-19
As Canadians head into summer vacation season, travel experts envision several changes to their itineraries for the foreseeable future.
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I blame the airlines for every time I've been sick on a cruise. Or at least I blame people traveling by air. As a world, we're completely doing air travel wrong.
Maybe we should consider closed circuit space suits for air travel. Plug in your air hose on the plane. And floor to ceiling dividers between seats. No contact, no elbows to the ribs. And if king diabeetus can't fit, then he'll need to upgrade to 1st class.
Cruises are ok:
-going through customs to get to a resort in the domimican republic was the most asinine experience of my life. I guess the DR doesn't mind looking like a bunch of worthless 3rd world stooges. Taxi driver couldn't find a stack of condos in a country with only 3 stacks of condos. Cruises don't have this issue.
-skip the shows, you should have worn yourself out with excursions on whatever island you went to. Casino is nicer than the lame shows anyways.
-never go onto an island without something booked. Even if no excursions interested you, go on one anyways. Just wondering around is a terrible waste of time.
-make sure to try the pay restaurants a few times
-get the cheapest, smallest, lamest, room you can. The room is for sleep, toilet, shower. Use the ship to relax, not your room. Singles studios have been the most fin for me. They often have little common areas nearby with refreshments handy. Unlike the nicer rooms.
-lines suck. Whoever runs cruise lines, any of them, needs to be fired. 5,000 passengers, one wee little door. Waste half your day in stupid lines.
-shore excusion meeting spots are usually retarded. Poorly marked. In a weird, hard to find location, whatever. Pop smoke! Fly a balloon, something. What a constant PITA.
-PAPERWORK IS NOT VACTAION! Fill out these forms for the dive excusion, fill them out again when you meet your tour idiot at the excursion meeting spot, and THEN the f'n dive boat checks your ''paperz'' again. This can all be done by email weeks in advance. Get with it.
-if your cruise line has it's own damn island, make sure that it's not just pools, make a nice spot to snorkel, swim, or dive.
-wake up early for breakfast. Breakfast is the meal, where Americans are the most retarded. Most other people as well. Beat the crowd, or suffer.
Overall, i'd rather spend a week in a resort. But resorts are twice as expensive as a cruise. (explain that?) Worse food, less excursion/tour options. I've only been satisfied with dive resorts. Splitting a condo in Playa, or a house in Key West was fun, bit not as nice as a dive resort.
As for the RV's? Where are you going to go???
Campgrounds that are mostly parking lots for people that no longer travel?
State parks that are always closed?
Camp Alcatraz? That has more rules than fun.
Somewhere far away? Think again, RV's and trailers are notoriously unreliable.
RV'ing is being polluted by morons. It's not nearly as fun as it was 25 years ago. Finding good spots, is very tough. Way easier though, with an overlandy setup.
Maybe we should consider closed circuit space suits for air travel. Plug in your air hose on the plane. And floor to ceiling dividers between seats. No contact, no elbows to the ribs. And if king diabeetus can't fit, then he'll need to upgrade to 1st class.
Cruises are ok:
-going through customs to get to a resort in the domimican republic was the most asinine experience of my life. I guess the DR doesn't mind looking like a bunch of worthless 3rd world stooges. Taxi driver couldn't find a stack of condos in a country with only 3 stacks of condos. Cruises don't have this issue.
-skip the shows, you should have worn yourself out with excursions on whatever island you went to. Casino is nicer than the lame shows anyways.
-never go onto an island without something booked. Even if no excursions interested you, go on one anyways. Just wondering around is a terrible waste of time.
-make sure to try the pay restaurants a few times
-get the cheapest, smallest, lamest, room you can. The room is for sleep, toilet, shower. Use the ship to relax, not your room. Singles studios have been the most fin for me. They often have little common areas nearby with refreshments handy. Unlike the nicer rooms.
-lines suck. Whoever runs cruise lines, any of them, needs to be fired. 5,000 passengers, one wee little door. Waste half your day in stupid lines.
-shore excusion meeting spots are usually retarded. Poorly marked. In a weird, hard to find location, whatever. Pop smoke! Fly a balloon, something. What a constant PITA.
-PAPERWORK IS NOT VACTAION! Fill out these forms for the dive excusion, fill them out again when you meet your tour idiot at the excursion meeting spot, and THEN the f'n dive boat checks your ''paperz'' again. This can all be done by email weeks in advance. Get with it.
-if your cruise line has it's own damn island, make sure that it's not just pools, make a nice spot to snorkel, swim, or dive.
-wake up early for breakfast. Breakfast is the meal, where Americans are the most retarded. Most other people as well. Beat the crowd, or suffer.
Overall, i'd rather spend a week in a resort. But resorts are twice as expensive as a cruise. (explain that?) Worse food, less excursion/tour options. I've only been satisfied with dive resorts. Splitting a condo in Playa, or a house in Key West was fun, bit not as nice as a dive resort.
As for the RV's? Where are you going to go???
Campgrounds that are mostly parking lots for people that no longer travel?
State parks that are always closed?
Camp Alcatraz? That has more rules than fun.
Somewhere far away? Think again, RV's and trailers are notoriously unreliable.
RV'ing is being polluted by morons. It's not nearly as fun as it was 25 years ago. Finding good spots, is very tough. Way easier though, with an overlandy setup.
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There are not many things worse in my life than getting seasick. Cruising would be a nightmare. On one ferry trip, the ship sat outside of the port for 24 hours waiting for the weather to calm down enough so we could dock. I started to think I would die; in the end I was hoping death would be a happy release.
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