Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
to cruise or not to cruise
we are considering a short cruise out of port canaveral in october. On the one hand, it'd be fun to get away for a few days, and the short ones are pretty reasonably priced. But it would mean days off/money spent/blah blah blah. And since these short cruises are on the older boats I'm wondering if it's going to feel run down or dirty or something.
We're looking at either a Carnival or Royal Caribbean 4 night Bahamas cruise. The Carnival one works a little better with our schedule (ie fewer days we have to take off).
I don't think we care so much where we go, we just want to relax. We had big ideas to fly away somewhere and it never materialized so now this just looks easier if we are going to do anything at all.
Has anyone been on a cruise like this? What'd you think? Did you like it? Should I go? Talk me into (or out of) it
Re: to cruise or not to cruise
I'd do whichever worked better financially & schedule-wise.
Cruise! I've never done RCCL, but we've done a lot of Carnival and a lot on the older ships. You get what you pay for, but it's so cheap that I'm okay with a little rundown. We have fun wherever we go. It is what you make it!
We paid about $400 more for a nicer NCL cruise (and we had to go out of Miami) and I'd say it was worth it, but it didn't make Carnival cruises less fun if that makes sense.
Also we've learned to just budget a LOT for alcohol so we don't stress about it the entire time.
We're planning on for January/February with some friends. I love long weekend cruises! Let us know if you have any specific questions about cruises or Carnival specifically.
Do it! We have cruised Royal and Carnival. We cruised Royal out of Miami and Carnival out of Jax. We enjoyed the RC activities/shows/drinking fests more than Carnival.
For short cruises, I would pick whichever worked better for your schedule/finances.