Cruise passengers threaten mutiny

The Reid wrote:
Icono Clast said:
I won't go on a cruise that isn't a dance cruise organized by
dancers for dancers.

I do not regard a cruise as travel. To me, the ship is the
destination.

does the ship add romance or something?

My first trip to Europe, I went from Manhattan to Le Havre on the SS
Maasdam (as a child I'd taken a cruise to Honolulu). I really enjoyed
being on a ship and have since been telling anyone who'd listen that
it's something one ought do at least once in a lifetime. I returned to
New York from Piraeus on the all-kosher SS Jerusalem.

As I said, "to me, the ship is the destination" but those two voyages
started out as being just transportation. $180 each way in 1961 was much
less expensive than flying.

so why not just dance where you normally dance?

When I go on dance cruises and/or to conventions, I get to meet and
dance with dancers from all over, not just the USA but from other
countries. I know you will not believe, and think egotistical, what I'm
about to say, but experience has proved to me that: I cannot go to a bar
where dancers dance, or a dance, in the USA where there's not someone I
know or someone who knows me! I'm very well known in the dance world by
face, if not by name even though my picture is not on either of the
sites in the sig. There are many pictures of women in which I happen to
be at others' sites.

Last night, m'girlfriend asked "Who was that girl who was talking to
us?" after a jazz gig. "I dunno," I said. "We're rather well known,
y'know." "Yes," resignedly. "I guess we are."

You're probably most familiar with the International Style Ballroom
world in which people rarely dance with anyone who isn't their regular
partner. In the Swing World (Latin and Tango, too), we dance with
EVERYone*. Each dance is a new experience, sometimes horrid, sometimes
fantastic, sometimes magical and an unforgettable dance burns the floor.
One never knows with whom or to what. I've had mediocre dances with
Champions, fantastic dances with average dancers, and magical ones with
mediocre dancers. It's Magic! And more damn fun than you can possibly
imagine!
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*Here's a brief explanation of the best form of dance competition:

http://geocities.com/dancefest/Articles/JackJill.html#t