Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com (Post 1790188)

Over eating and drinking, access to more viruses then an infectious lab keeps, herded around towns and historical sites that are deteriorating due to larger and larger cruise ships that also are polluting the beautiful harbors that your so intent on seeing . I love to travel , 3 months in Thailand last year , but wouldn’t take a cruise if it was for free , if I want a quick vacation I would rather go to Club Med somewhere interesting

Originally Posted by davem4616 (Post 1789765)

we sailed on on the big ships once....never again...if I want to be among 3-5K people, I'll go to Times Square on New Year's eve

since that initial cruise we've only sailed with Windstar....no more than 300 folks on board...or150 on their smaller ships

maybe a little more $$$...but you're not in port with 4 huge cruise ships....Windstar ships go into the smaller ports that the big ships can't get to ...and the service is over the top

Originally Posted by DonH57 (Post 1790941)

We sailed on one of the bigger ships that can hold 3-5 K of people. It seems the larger the boat the number of a-holes grows to great numbers. Will stick to the smaller ones.:ohdear: