The Debate Over Cruise Vacations: Wonderful or Torturous?

Why We Love Them

I am a Travel Loner. When the crowd heads off to see the sunset, I go east. Once, before a Costa Rican volcano tour even reached the volcano, I paid a taxista $100 to take me back to the capital, far from the chatty tourists on the bus.

I spent a lot of years dragging my suitcase up those long stairways to European train platforms because I thought cruises were stupid. I was entirely sure that only old folks and sheep go on cruises. Who wants to board a gigantic floating condominium? Who would choose to be…