OldLady
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A few of you have mentioned thinking the ship would seem crowded with people. It doesn't! I don't know how they manage it, but I had worried about the same thing and somehow or other it never seemed like a bunch of people were all jammed together on a ship, which we were--about 3,000 of us, including the staff.Hubby and I love to travel: near, far, by car or air. But we never, ever want to cruise. We see all kinds of pitfalls and almost no positives. For one thing, when you cruise you are constantly surrounded by people. Everywhere. A press of people everywhere--a floating city of people all stacked up together.
Cruise ships have morgues.
Cruise ships have norovirus.
Cruise ships are beholden to the waves and the weather.
How unpopular is this opinion?
Norovirus is highly unlikely on a Cruise ship. In reality you have a far better chance of picking it up at a hospital, a nursing home, a daycare, a school, or anywhere else. Norovirus is an extremely common illness, comparative to the common cold, or yearly flu.
The only reason this is referred to as a 'cruise ship' illness, is because it makes the news, when a large cruise liner returns to port because of an outbreak. When dozens of kids get sick, and their parents equally get sick... it doesn't usually make the news. It's just "oh there's a bug going around".
Yes, cruise ships have morgues. People die. People who are older, are more likely to die. The demographic of people who take cruises, is typically retirees.
Cruise ships are typically not beholden to waves and weather.
Go back 100 years, and maybe you have a point. But today, with GPS, and satellites, cruise ships almost never get even near bad weather really bad weather. Unless the Cruise company is garbage. Obviously you get what you pay for. But most of the notable brands are as much interested in avoiding weather to keep customers happy, as wanting to protected their obviously massive investment in a cruise ship. Severe weather can damage any ship, and cruise liners are not cheap.
You are more likely to get hit by bad weather at a beach resort that can't move, than a ship can will steer clear.
All that said, I typically just don't like crowds of people, and thus I don't think I would enjoy a cruise so much. But then I likely would not enjoy going to any tourist destination where tons of people go.
Years ago I found a castle like inn, that sat on top of a large hill in Kentucky, and had hectares of land around it. That was more appealing to me than a cruise, because it specifically was not a tourist destination, and you had miles of bike paths over the hills, and no one anywhere nearby.
Guess because it's so big and has so many levels and they arrange activities in different parts of the ship, probably, but I never felt crowded.