Originally Posted by
Randyk47
We, on the other hand, will not book a cruise shorter than 10 days. Part of it is that our annual cruise is basically our major vacation and anything shorter than 10 days is too short. Secondly, after we've paid for airfare and a pre-cruise hotel we want to get as much "bang for our buck" as we can. I will say we look for port intensive cruises and are not much into sea days. The idea of a say a trans-Atlantic cruise with six or seven straight sea days is of no interest to us.
Agree & disagree (travel is so fun - there are options for all of us!) I have no desire to do a 5 day cruise - I have an algorithm of how long a vacation needs to be to make it worth my while to travel there ;-) Most 5 days in the US (I'm on the east coast) tend to be quickie Carib trips and I'm not interested in that at all. And based on what I've read on CC - lots of those short & cheap cruises are party cruises, and I'm really not interested in that!
On the other hand - I am looking forward to doing a TATL repositioning cruise in the future - preferably on a luxury line (repo cruises tend to have the cheapest per diem rates - might be the only way I get to try a luxury line^) Lots of time to enjoy that luxury. But we also like small ships, and TATLs on the small ships take a long time - 10 days without ports might be too much for me. We'll see!