Does anybody else do one-day cruises?
We live in Seattle where they have to reposition boats every Fall and Spring to work around the Jones Act, which states that no foreign registered vessel can transport passengers between one US port and another US port, without making an interim visit to a distant foreign port. The Carribean and Canada don't count.
As a result, every Fall and Spring we get to take one-day cruises to and/or from Vancouver. This year we are taking The Dawn Princess from Seattle to Vancouver on 9/23/06, getting off and boarding The Veendam which will take us from Vancouver to Seattle.
Sometimes these trips can be very, very cost-effective. Right now I think balcony cabins on the Dawn are selling for less than $100. Not bad for lunch, working out and playing on the boat all day, dinner, a Broadway type show, dancing all night, a room for the night and breakfast the next morning. ^