On Tue, 14 May 2013 13:23:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, May 13, 2013 8:06:48 PM UTC-7, wrote:



I took the carnival elation and we went to cozumel

a quick 4 day trip. I would also reccomend not taking a cruise longer

than 4 maybe 5 days. It starts to get tiresome having almost everyone

that works on the ship if you want to buy a drink like every 3-4

minutes sometimes. I swear I was at the pool and someone came by every

3-4 minutes as asked if I wanted a drink they must have done that for

20 minutes.

Well, you did take a "booze cruise", a short festive cruise on the WalMart of cruise lines.

I don't drink alcohol, and never was bothered more than once or twice a day if I wanted a drink (on other lines).

Longer cruises have more sober people, it might be because it is harder to go on a week long drunk. I don't know.

Earlier this year I took a 14 day cruise. It was way too short. I went to lectures and other classes and demonstrations.
I usually took in a movie a day. I exercised daily,
and I ate about six meals a day. I read books and played board games. I went to music recitals. I avoided the
musical theater because I am not into "Glee" type productions, but those were well attended. I played poker and watched TV.

I was not all that interested in going to any of the sales
demonstrations like the art auction and the jewelry auctions and
things of that nature although I did go look at the art a couple of
times. I played a couple games of chess and yes I skipped the dance
numbers also. There were no movies on this cruise and that kinda
sucked. I was upset that the sky was full of clouds every single night
and I had no chance of spotting comet ison. I guess you can say I
exercised just by walking the ship for hours and hours back and
fourth. I tried the track up top but going in circles is just so
repetitive.
A fourteen day cruise wow that is alot where did you make port and
what were all of your stops and that must have cost a pretty penny.

I tried to ditch my traveling companion whenever possible. I am not attached at the hip. But there is an advantage to knowing at least
one other person on the boat. You couldn't get anyone to go with you? The price difference would have been minimal.

I met several people and we had fun when we had a chance encounter in
the dance club onboard or maybe sitting around talking. I had a room
but spent very little time there. I would shower dress and sleep no
more than about 5 hours the only television I saw was about 10 minutes
of the discovery channel before I went to sleep and I watched the
recommended videos about leaving the ship the final day but that was
all, it was like food , walk , food ,poker about 4 hours, food,
poker (4 more hours), walking, dancing talking, food, walking
,sleeping

and I did that for 4 days . I guess that is why I think a cruise over
4 days is too much. If it was a bigger boat and had more things to do
then I guess a longer cruise would be better