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Anyone been on a cruise?
Anyone been on a cruise?
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can u pull on a cruise
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I'm told there's lots of rich widows looking for blokes so you should be ok if you're not too choosy.
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even you, yes
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I hate it when posts are a couple of seconds too late.
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FatherMaguire. A bloke on the next allotment to mine goes on lots of cruises. He reckons to first look on http://www.vacationstogo.com/ and then ask other agents to beat what they offer. Seems like a bit of a lottery and once you've booked never look to see how much you could have got it for as sometimes it's many £100s cheaper.
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you've been "mingled"
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Easy to get a deal. Get the brochure or look on the internet on the cruise company's website to find the full asking price. Try and find great price on a cruise bucket company's website. Having decided which cruise and date you want to go. Walk into an independent travel agent shop, ask what they would charge for the exact cruise without revealing your best price. Then negotiate them down to roughly the best price you found or the price you want to pay (be reasonable, they have to make something out of it) saying you have your credit card in hand and that if they match your price you will book there and then. Never ever failed me. The travel shop chains like Thomas Cook are less likely to be able to give the best deals as the independently owned. But if there is one near you, there is nothing to be lost by having a go.
On all my cruises, I only had one where I didn't get on with those on my table. So-I greeted them when I sat down for a meal, and as soon as I had finished, I wished them a good afternoon or evening and got up from the table and left them to it. As I said before, make sure you can afford a decent cabin. Inside cabins can be claustrophobic. I am fortunate to be able to enjoy cabins with balconies. Worth the extra. |
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If you would like to spend your holiday in a glitzy hotel, eat good food, watch mindless cabaret, drink in soulless bars and watch the antics of well-oiled loud young men and giggly young women, then a cruise is for you. Bix's fear of a holiday camp atmosphere is not far off although the food is better and served with a selection of wines ad-lib.
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money - yes you can pull on a cruise
ask the captain to put you in a dinghy and you can row around the ship  |
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On most occasions when my wife has left me on my own somewhere on board whilst she's gone to powder her nose or whatever it takes about two minutes for a widow or divorcee, usually American, to close in and I'm no catch. A mate reckoned he pulled ten in a fortnight's cruise round the Caribbean last year.
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can row around the ship
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sorry money just couldn't help it
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Best not try it while it's moving, especially going around the sharp end.
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What cruise line did you go on then Foinavon
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We went on MS Magellan, I'm led to believe it's typical and seemed well run, no complaints. Just not our type of holiday. Friends of Mrs F had been on cruises and she wanted to try one, as you do.
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Hope this wasn't a Chit Chatters family.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/entire-family-kicked-off-apos-111622705.html |
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I bet Tom's been on one ... or in one ...
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I imagine it being like 'Grab a granny night', could be a good week or more for bed notches and the chances are they will be rich aswell, no brainer, get packing!
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Very popular with Jimmy Savile they were.
Some older people sell their house and become a perpetual cruiser going from ship to ship. |
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Done a good few overs the years normally 2 a year
been some great places that you would not normally see Fjords St Petersburg,lots of the Baltic but they are not for everyone I join most of the events/quizzes going on you get to meet people if you want to,but it's only a taster of most ports you go to,so for you to think if you would like a weekend another time. The two best ports for me were Venice and New York the views leaving these two ports is breathtaking imo. |
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Some of these posts about lots of grannies throwing themselves around the cabins makes me want to go ..
 But only because I think .. if he lurks on chit chat (like all sensible people do), there'll be a good chance now of me getting Wayne Rooney's autograph mid atlantic    |