Today’s cruise ships are floating resorts which offers everything you would expect in a five star resort. Plenty of rooms, fine dining, dazzling entertainment and activities galore. It’ll probably take you two or three days just to discover what’s on board. Most cruise ships have a daily newsletter with news headlines, selected stock quotes and sports scores. You can call someone on shore through the ship’s radio operator while at sea. And you can make phone calls from most ports of call.
To eliminate the incidence of motion discomfort, there are stabilizers on modern ships, advance availability of accurate weather information, preventative medications with fully-equipped medical facility and staff (except for some smaller vessels operating in coastal waters) to handle almost any emergency on board.
Entertainments day and night
On any cruise vacation, the entertainment is a part of cruising. You can go for a swim, stretch out in the sauna or work out in the gym. You can see a feature movie, attend lectures by renowned experts, play backgammon or bridge.
You can be yourself and lie back on a lounge chair, breath in the sea air, soak up the sun, read good books or watch the ever-changing view. Or join in exercise classes, dance classes, sports contests and other organized deck activities. Perhaps you can practice your tennis strokes, drive golf balls, shoot some skeet or basketballs.
There’s dancing, live entertainment in the nightclubs, discos and lounges. Feature films. And parties with all your new friends. Most cruise ships even have casinos.
There are many special events, like the Captains Cocktail Party, Passenger Entertainment Night, the Masquerade Party, the Midnight Buffet. You can also celebrate your own “special” day. Most cruise lines will even treat you to a complimentary cake and chorus of “Happy Whatever” to honor the occasion.
The varieties are limitless and all kinds of people take cruises of all ages, singles, couples and families.