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As mentioned before,
our group required variety. Our twenty-something kids need to have a festive,
party atmosphere. Our parents required something somewhat more sophisticated
without being stuffy or pretentious. Many of the “contemporary” cruise lines
offer much of this variety, and only on the larger cruise ships. We quickly
were able to narrow our search to three cruise lines.
In looking at the
cruise line and cruise ship, we carefully scanned over the amenities and
listed activities for the specific ships. All three had a good variety. Each
had specific high spots and potential low spots. Even with our diverse group,
we felt that all three cruise lines could offer us a great family vacation
cruise experience.
Next was the
itinerary – or destinations where the individual cruises stopped. These
ports-of-call make cruises an extra special vacation value. Of course, we
had a set date that we wanted to be away, so we looked at the available
itineraries for the three cruise lines, including which ships sailed those
itineraries. We chose the southern Caribbean for our cruise.
All three cruise
lines offered a southern Caribbean cruise at the time we wanted to cruise.
Each offered different ports-of-call which allowed us to narrow our search.
We next looked at the cost of the cruise vacation and what potential
discounts/special offers we might receive by booking 6 staterooms.
Now we had all of the
information required to make our decision. We first narrowed our search to
three cruise lines. We chose a cruise locale and looked at the available
cruise ships in those cruise lines sailing on our specified date. Lastly, we
compared pricing.
As it turned out, we
chose the middle priced cruise (before discounts). This choice had a variety
of amenities to cater to our “kids”. Our parents would have a level of
sophisticated elegance. And we would have piece of mind in knowing that we
had done “due diligence” in choosing the best cruise for our family vcation.
Oh yes, do you want
to know which cruise we chose? We chose Princess Cruises’ ship
Golden Princess. Our cruise
itinerary:
• San Juan, Puerto
Rico
• St. Thomas, US
Virgin Islands
• St. Kitts, St.
Kitts & Nevis
• Grenada
• Isla Margarita
• Aruba
• San Juan
Brian A Schmidt is
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cruise information, discounts and great deals! Visit
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