Millseas Minute: Cruises
- aribeiro17
- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 15, 2022
Now you know by now that here at Millseas Map - we love an all-inclusive moment. We vacation for the sun and the sand and are okay compromising on the quality that stereotypically is the all-inclusive drinks and food - for the convenience of getting what we want when we want without a big bill at the end - but that's us! Normally when you think all-inclusive resorts you thinks Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica - the big islands in the Caribbean (check out our blog post on the bigs and the greats: 'Millseas Minute: DR, MX, and JAM'). But the mind also ventures to cruises. People love a cruise - the cruise ships these days can have so many amenities and a cruise gives you the flexibility to travel to many destinations at once while still getting the benefits of that all-inclusive experience of food and drinks galore! Here at Millseas - have we been on a cruise? Yes. Do we love a cruise? No - and here's why.
Now before we go into why we are not cruise people - let me first tell you a little about my cruise experience. I know off the bat - it wasn't great. I was at the awkward age of 17 (I am now 29) where I was too old for the kids clubhouse but not yet of legal drinking age (18) once outside the US of A. My grandparents surprised my family, a total of 25 people, with the trip one year from Santa and with the help of a travel agent - booked us all on a Carnival Cruise. Now our cruise ship was bare bones. The big feature was the water slide - and it didn't work. The pools on the ship were beyond packed with children - like I don't even know if a big toe could fit - and it was hot. There was no escape from the heat apart from inside the ship - which for a week in the Caribbean - I didn't want to be inside. I wanted to be swimming in the blue waters I saw all around me and as such felt very trapped and bored on the boat. I don't remember the food - I wasn't of age to drink - and maybe that would have changed my perspective - but what I do remember was the heat and the boredom. One destination days - my family (of 4) - was first in line off the boat - every time! We would race to just get time off the boat and celebrate with our toes in the sand and diving into the water. Those are my best memories of the trip - what happened off the boat and dreading to get back on. As such, why go on the boat if the destination was the best part!?
In addition to just not all-around loving the boat part of a cruise another reason we here at Millseas don't love a cruise is simple - We are beach people. We love a swim up bar moment - in fact it's one of the main amenities we look for when searching for a hotel - but we travel for the soft sand and those Caribbean blue warm waters. Even if our pools on board weren't packed with children, we would still prefer a beach over a pool and therefore a cruise doesn't really make sense for us and our preferences.
Now you might ask - I just spent the past three paragraphs explaining in quite detail about why cruise life isn't for me - but yet I'm in the process of planning my second vacation with Dream Yacht Charter - essentially a vacation…on a boat? Seems quite contradictory on the surface but let me explain.
For starters - it's your boat. You're in control of what you do and when. Do you want a beach day - you got it! Want to sail somewhere else - done! Snorkeling - where ever you want. You are in total control and as such the trip is completely customizable to what you want (assuming you rented your own boat). Also with DYC - the size of the boat and your company matter. It's not a huge cruise ship where you are 1/1,000 - we had 6 people on our boat + a captain. It was our close friends having the vacation of a lifetime together, hopping around islands, checking out all the restaurants and bars - and then eating PB&J on crackers. There were no other people - there was no waiting - it was our own private oasis with endless flexibility.
I feel like if you're been reading along it is just one shameless plus for DYC after another but it's truly a unique vacation that is obtainable to the normal person. To learn more - we deep dive into it all into the blog posts linked below:
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