Category: Theme Cruises
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Holiday Cruises 2012
Are you interested in taking a holiday cruise in 2012? There are a number of holiday cruises planned for the 2012 season, but time is running out, so you should start planning now if you hope to book one before the new year. When the goal is to take a cruise vacation during a particular time of year (like, say, the holiday season of 2012), it is not unusual to start planning many months (indeed, even a year or more) in advance. This means that many cruises set for the 2012 holidays are or are nearly fully booked. However, there are plenty of cruises that are not yet fully booked, and since cruise lines hate to send off any ship that is not filled with passengers, there are often last-minute cruise deals to be had, and this applies to 2012 holiday cruises as well. Below you will find information about holiday cruises in 2012, as well as some general guidance for finding and booking a specific 2012 holiday cruise. Read more […] -
Yoga Cruises
Yoga has become increasingly popular, as have cruise vacations, so it is not entirely surprising that there are now yoga cruises – i.e., cruises that prominently feature yoga as part of the on-board experience. Yoga cruises come in many forms, and the extent to which each of these cruises focuses on yoga varies. Some cruises are entirely about yoga, where the main point of the cruise vacation is to practice or learn about yoga. There are also health cruises that feature yoga, but not exclusively; these cruises are about health in general, and so are not, strictly speaking, yoga cruises, or at least they aren’t only yoga cruises. Finally, there are cruises that merely offer the opportunity to do yoga, and of course these aren’t only “yoga cruises” either. However, each of these types of cruises allows you to do yoga at sea, so they are worth considering if you are a fan of both yoga and cruises. Read more […] -
Cruises for Cancer Patients
We recently wrote about cruises for cancer, including a cancer cruise that sought to raise funding for cancer research, as well as a cancer cruise that united patients and survivors of breast cancer for a few days of fellowship. The latter cruise is a cruise for cancer patients (although this isn’t its exclusive focus), and we just unearthed another cruise for cancer patients, one that exists for the sole purpose of providing some relief to those who are suffering from or are otherwise affected by cancer. This cruise for cancer patients is offered through the non-profit Kick Cancer Overboard, which was created by the travel agency Excel Travel. It’s a very unique and generous program, so we wanted to explain this cruise for cancer patients and how it works. Read more […] -
Cancer Cruises
There are several different types of medical cruises, although they tend to fit into two categories: there are cruises that focus on medical education (generally in the form of conferences on board a cruise ship), and there are cruises that emphasize passenger health (by offering fitness classes, healthy meals, and so on). There are also cruises for specific medical conditions, like cancer. There are a few of these cruises for cancer. One of them, the Buckeye Cruise for Cancer, is about raising awareness and money for cancer research, and the other, the Breast Cancer Wellness Cruise, focuses more on uniting patients and survivors of this form of cancer. There are also “cancer cruises” that have nothing to do with cruise ships, like Jerry Parins Cruise for Cancer, which is a motorcycle rally for cancer. However, we are only concerned with cruise ships that offer cruises for cancer, so we’ll focus on the Buckeye Cruise for Cancer and the Breast Cancer Wellness Cruise to give you an idea of what these cruise are all about. Read more […] -
Health Cruises
A typical cruise vacation is generally not focused on health. Indeed, there is often a suspension of concern for one’s health on a cruise vacation, considering that excess (with respect to food, alcohol, etc.) is at the center of many people’s holiday at sea. But there are healthy cruises (or simply “health cruises”), by which we mean cruises that not only offer healthy cruise experiences (by offering, say, healthy meals), but also focus on increasing passenger health. A health cruise, then, is one that places a healthy passenger experience at its center, or at least it must make health a large component of the cruise vacation. A health cruise can’t merely make it possible to be healthy on board – health must be in many ways the point of the cruise. Read more […] -
The Eye Surgery Ship
Most people go on cruises to take a vacation. Taking a cruise is about relaxing, traveling around the world a bit, and not much else. However, there are several types of cruises that are taken for reasons that are unrelated to vacationing, like medical cruises. Medical cruises often focus on educating medical professionals (with on-board conferences, meetings, etc.), but at least a few different cruise ships offer voyages that focus on some form of patient care. A prime example of this latter type of cruise is an eye surgery cruise. As far as our research suggests, there has only been one eye surgery cruise ship, and the ship appears to have ceased functioning many years ago, but the story of the eye surgery ship and the man behind it is extraordinary and inspiring. The eye surgery ship may no longer be taking passengers, but the mere fact that is ever existed is an awesome example of two seemingly unrelated things – eye surgery and cruise ships – coming together for the sake of good. Read more […]