The answer to the question in the title – who goes on a singles cruise? – may appear ludicrously simple, and in one sense it is. Singles obviously go on singles cruises. Who else would take a cruise that exclusively caters to singles? But the word “single” ranges over many types of people, so we wanted to look into the different kinds of singles that take singles cruises. There are singles who go on these cruises to hook up and not much else, and this is probably the type of single that many people think of when they hear of singles cruises. But not everyone takes a singles cruise just to hook up with other passengers. Many people take them to meet other people who are at a similar stage in life as they are; that’s why there are singles cruises for specific age groups. Other people take them to meet like-minded people, and hence the existence of, for example, the Christian singles cruises that pop up from time to time. Basically, lots of different types of singles take singles cruises for lots of different reasons. A singles cruise needn’t be a celebration of promiscuity.
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