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  • What To Know When Cruising Alone

    What To Know When Cruising Alone

    Going on a cruise by yourself can be a very relaxing and enjoyable trip. But there are a few tips to keep in mind that can make your trip even more enjoyable. Having time to yourself is always nice, but there will be times when you will want other people to talk to. These tips can lay the groundwork for you, even if you are not terribly outgoing.

    As you board the ship, be the person with the biggest smile and most genuine greeting for everyone you meet. As a single traveler, others might already be assuming that you prefer to be alone or that you don’t want company. Your smile and warm greeting will let the crew know that you are friendly and more than willing to strike up a conversation. In addition, you will likely not be labeled as one of the troublesome passengers who is never satisfied and always complaining.

    If you are looking for a good place to just hang out during the cruise, find a bar that you like and take a seat off to the end of the bar. After the bartender delivers your drink, tip with a twenty, and you will have made your first friend. This tip is likely to get a few questions and an introduction. Then from time to time the bartender will make small talk and check to see if you need a fresh drink. Now you have a place to go for a little conversation without having to sit alone at a table somewhere and appear antisocial.

    Joining into group activities is a great way to meet a large number of people and also to have some fun. It could be a trivia contest, a board game or even karaoke but get involved and remember that no one on the ship will ever see you again, so be brave and give it your best shot. There is something very freeing about not knowing anyone who sees you miss every trivial question or sing off key. Mingle and enjoy the opportunity, and if you don’t hit it off with the group then you can excuse yourself and return to a good book or a lounge chair on the deck.

    Being alone on a cruise is not ever really going to happen except when you are in your cabin. There are people everywhere, and it is up to you to go out and meet a few and enjoy your time making new acquaintances and the time that you spend just enjoying your own company.

  • Booking Priceline Cruises: Is it Worth It?

    Booking Priceline Cruises: Is it Worth It?

    There are many ways to find discounted cruises, including consulting with travel agencies, checking automobile associations, and scouring specials on booking websites. One booking site in particular offer amazing deals if travelers agree to certain restrictions (which is often necessary anyway for the lowest passage) and if they wait until the last minute to book (not literally, but pretty last-minute for travel). That booking website is Priceline and it’s offering some outstanding opportunities to cruise for the lowest prices anywhere – guaranteed!

    What is Priceline?

    If you’re not familiar with Priceline, you should be because the travel booking website offers ultra low rates on hotels, cars, airfare, and even cruises – with the lowest fares often going to travelers who can book and then travel within a few weeks or even a few days. Priceline’s specialty is filling up guestrooms, rental cars, airplane seats, and staterooms that would otherwise sit empty.

    They entice travelers to claim these spaces by giving them what you’ll see are practically steals on fares.

    Priceline’s Low-Price Guarantee

    Priceline has a low-price guarantee that covers all of the cruise lines it books passengers on. When comparing Priceline cruises with cruises you find through other channels, you need to compare apples to apples, which means all details of a cruise have to match up (ship, stateroom, perks, etc.) for a traveler to request the lower fare that might have been seen elsewhere. But, Priceline’s website usually gets it right by displaying the lowest fares so that travelers don’t have to shop around.

    What Kind of Priceline Cruises Can You Find?

    Priceline offers voyages that are perfect for singles, families, couples wanting a romantic ship, seniors, and almost all types of cruisers. You’ll find cruises to Mexico, the Caribbean, San Diego, Vancouver, Europe, and many other popular destinations (and some remote ones). Most cruises available for booking through Priceline leave from typical cruise ship ports in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America, and elsewhere, including Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Juan, and ports in the New York Area. But ,there are other non-traditional ports you can sail out of and perhaps get a better deal that you could have imagined.

    Examples of Priceline Cruise Bargains

    Seniors and everyone in their staterooms can right-off-the-bat get a discount on already-low-priced cruises offered through Priceline. Last-minute cruises (leaving within 60 days) can be scored for up to 75% off (as low as $60 per night) and there are many other types of special deals available, including deals that are awesome not simply for the fare but for the freebies packaged along with them.

    Check out Priceline’s cruise offerings and let us know what you think. You can read about what’s included in Priceline cruises and what parts of travel you’ll need to take care of separately (you can get some pretty outstanding airfare and hotel deals while shopping on Priceline’s site). We’d love to hear about any discounts or perks you’re able to lock in.

  • Singles Cruises: Are They Appropriate for Someone with an Open Relationship or Polyamorous Relationship Status?

    Over the past few days, we’ve been closely examining who takes singles cruises. More precisely, we’ve been considering who should take a singles cruise. We’ve singled out some important attributes of singles-cruise passengers – for instance, they should be outgoing and open to new encounters – but the most important conclusion we reached is this: you should be single if you take singles cruise. If you aren’t single when you take a singles cruise, you compromise the greatest thing about singles cruises, and you also betray the trust of your partner. But in thinking about this requirement – that your relationship status should be “single” to take a singles cruise – it occurred to us that perhaps this isn’t entirely true. What if you are in an open relationship? Should those who are in open relationships go on singles cruises? This question is more difficult to answer than you might think.

    First, we should state the obvious: anybody who wants to take a singles cruise can take a singles cruise. It’s not like you’re subject to a background check that determines your relationship status before you can book a singles cruise vacation. We are merely talking about, as stated above, who should take a singles cruise, and the question before us is whether someone in a open relationship should take a singles cruise.

    You might think it’s obvious that people in open relationships should go on singles cruises. Indeed, they might seem particularly well-suited for singles cruises because people enter open relationships to be open to creating new romantic relationships. There is perhaps no better way to accomplish this end than by taking a singles cruise. Everyone on board is available, and they’ve decided to take a singles cruise, so they are clearly open to the prospect of new relationships.

    However, this only means that taking a singles cruise is good for the person in the open relationship. What about the other passengers on board? They are under the impression that everyone on the ship is single; that is, the belief is that passengers aren’t attached to another person, and they are potentially open for a more serious relationship should that possibility arise. People in open relationships might regard themselves as “single,” but many other people won’t. If you go on a singles cruise, you may or may not be looking for a long-term partner, but you probably at least want to know if the person you are interested in on board is in a relationship (open or committed). It could be devastating to begin a relationship with someone on a singles cruise, only to find out later that they are in some type of relationship and therefore have an alliance to another person.

    With this in mind, we think it is probably acceptable to go on a singles cruise if you are in an open relationship, but only if you are forthcoming about this information. If you aren’t, other passengers could be misled or hurt, and this compromises the entire atmosphere on board a singles cruise. For related coverage of single cruises, check out our articles on those who should take singles cruises and those who should not take singles cruises.

  • Singles Cruises: Who Should Not Go on a Singles Cruise?

    The last article we wrote about singles cruises asked the question “who should go on a singles cruise?” In answering this question, another question became immediately obvious: who should not go on a singles cruise? The answer to this second question is in many ways embedded in the answer to the first question – if a person with attribute X should take a singles cruise, for example, then a person who lacks attribute X should not take a singles cruise. However, sometimes it is helpful to explicitly state what was merely implied, and a little overlap never killed anyone. So, who should not go on a singles cruise?

    Most obviously, you should not be in any sort of committed relationship if you go on a singles cruise. While the point of a singles cruise is not only to meet other singles with whom to begin relationships (whether long-term or short-term), this is certainly a large component – and the chief aim – of any singles cruise. They are singles cruises, and as an apple orchard is for apples, a singles cruise is for singles. As such, if you are in a committed relationship and go on a singles cruise, you are committing a double offense: you are not only betraying the trust of your partner, you are also misleading the other passengers on board the ship. The mentality on board a singles cruise is that everyone else on the ship is also a single – this is their primary appeal. You needn’t worry about the relationship status of the people with whom you are talking. So, it’s misleading at best and offensive at worst if you take a singles cruise when you are not actually single.

    You should also not go on a singles cruise if you are intimidated by new experiences and people. Singles cruises are designed to bring people together of different personalities and various backgrounds. Everyone is funneled together on one ship and it is all but inevitable that a large portion of your time on board will be spent meeting new people. Again, this is basically the point of a singles cruise. Of course, you don’t need to be unusually gregarious and outgoing to get along fine on a singles cruise – most people will have no problem in this enviroment if they simply embrace the situation – but if you are extremely shy and uncomfortable chatting it up with poeple you just met, a singles cruise is probably not the place for you.

    Although we remain convinced that there are few people who are both single and definitely not suited for a singles cruise, such individuals exist. A singles cruise isn’t some sort of crazy new ordeal during which the general rules of social interaction are abandoned, but they definitely involve novel experiences, and one must be prepared for these. And speaking of novel situations, check out our article on the appropriateness (or lack of appropriateness) of taking a singles cruise if you are in an open or polyamorous relationship.

  • Singles Cruises: Who Should Go on a Singles Cruise?

    We’ve written extensively about singles cruises. We’ve explained what singles cruises are, we’ve listed examples of singles cruises, and we’ve given instructions for how to take a singles cruises. When we come across a cruise topic that’s in need of explaining, we explain it with extreme (and perhaps even overzealous) thoroughness. We have not as of yet explored any of the normative questions surrounding singles cruises, however. In other words, we have described singles cruises, but we have not entered the world of oughts and shoulds. We now seek to remedy this deficiency, such as it is, by writing about who should take a singles cruise. Are there certain types of people who are particularly well-suited for singles cruises? If so, are they well-suited because of their circumstances (the facts of their life) or their disposition (the facts of their character)? The answer, as is so often the case, is both.

    To begin, people who take singles cruises should in fact be single; if they aren’t, they are potentially causing harm (“harm” is to be understood broadly) to two sets of people. Most obviously, a person who is not single may cause harm to his partner by taking a singles cruise (either by acting unfaithfully or giving the impression of acting unfaithfully), and so they shouldn’t take a singles cruise. Obviously, a person who is in a relationship can physically take a singles cruise – there is nothing about the structure of the universe that could prevent this from happening – but such a person shouldn’t take one. Also, a person who is not single may cause harm to the other passengers by taking a singles cruise. This is the case because people on board a singles cruise are under the impression that everyone else on board the ship is also single. (Indeed, we are of the opinion that this is the greatest thing about singles cruises.) As such, any interaction a married or otherwise “taken” person has with someone on board a singles cruise is by its very nature misleading, unless the “taken” person immediately informs the person he is talking to that he is unavailable. To do otherwise is to mislead, and to mislead is to do wrong. Therefore, unavailable people shouldn’t take singles cruises.

    Even if you are single, though, this doesn’t necessarily mean you should take a singles cruise. You might also want to consider who you are as a person, and whether your personality is properly adapted for the world of singles cruises. You should be outgoing and comfortable speaking with strangers. You should be undemanding in your scheduling needs and open to new experiences. Generally speaking, most singles will have no problem enjoying and thriving on a singles cruise, so we don’t mean to imply that you need to morph into a social butterfly to enjoy a singles cruise. However, if you can hardly tolerate a spontaneous conversation on an airplane or if the thought of meeting someone new at a bar fills you with terror, a singles cruise is probably not the best place for you.

    It is one thing to provide bare information about singles cruises, and it is quite another to supply subjective judgments about the same. We have up until this article only opined about the former, and now we have dipped our toe in the latter – but we should add that we have done so not without right, to borrow the phrase on Shakespeare’s coat of arms. We are, after all, far more preoccupied with and knowable about singles cruises than the average person, and in our opinion there are certain people who should take singles cruises. Speaking in broad terms, these people should be, one, available and, two, open to new encounters and experiences. For the flip side of the issue, check out our article on who should not take singles cruises, and also our treatment of the difficult question of whether those in an open relationship or polyamorous relationship should take singles cruises.

  • Singles Cruises: The Greatest Thing About Singles Cruises

    The dating scene can be many things. It can be exciting, discouraging, enjoyable, and depressing, and somehow it can be all these things at once. It can also be profoundly awkward, not least when a single spends the better part of a night relentlessly pursuing someone who is already in a relationship. That the world of dating as it exists on solid ground makes this situation even possible reveals the principle appeal of singles cruises: the relationship status of everyone on board the ship is automatically known. As far as we’re concerned, this is the greatest thing about singles cruises.

    Obviously, there are many things to like about singles cruises simply by virtue of them being cruises. Cruises are themselves great, so it stands to reason that a singles cruise would also be great. With a singles cruise, as with a regular cruise, you get to explore distant lands, sail on a luxurious ship with extrodinary dining and entertainment possibilities, and so on. A singles cruise doesn’t lose its appeal as a cruise just because it is packed with singles. Indeed, many say that this enhances the cruise experience, and of course this is another reason why people are attracted to singles cruises. There are few places on earth with a larger concentration of singles than a singles cruise.

    But neither of the facts listed so far relate only to singles cruises, so they can’t properly be said to be the greatest thing about a singles cruise in particular. You can enjoy the experience of a cruise by, well, taking a cruise, and it’s not like singles are only available on singles cruises. What is highly unique and appealing about singles cruises is this: it is crystal clear what the relationship status of everyone on board the ship is. There is no guessing, no awkward attempts to bring up the subject when it may or may not be appropriate, no less-than-subtle attempts to look at someone’s ring finger (and of course even this is far from a fool-proof method; many people are seeing someone and are therefore unavailable, but are not married or engaged with a ring that advertises this fact).

    Perhaps you think it’s not all that hard to decipher someone’s relationship status, and in many cases you would be right. Sometimes it is obvious that someone is single. But the point is that this isn’t always the case, and when you misinterpret someone’s relationship status, whole nights of charming conversation and shared laughs can come crashing down upon you. Knowing that everyone on a singles cruise is single not only enables encounters, but also prevents disasters. Moreover, even if you are able to determine one individual’s relationship status at, say, a party or bar, what are the odds that you can immediately tell the relationship status of everybody present instantanously? It’s not possible.

    So, singles cruises are great for many reasons. They are cruises and they are loaded with singles, both positives in the eyes of many, but the greatest thing about singles cruises is that everyone knows one crucial fact about everybody else – they are all single. This both encourages fruitful interactions and wards off social catastrophy. What more could you hope for?

    For more information, check out our article on those who should take single cruises and those who should not take single cruises. We also dedicated an article to the tricky question of whether those in an open relationship or polyamorous relationship should take singles cruises.

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