Besides the years affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the cruise industry has gone from strength to strength.
The author on a summer vacation as a child.Ĭlearly, I harbored some disdain for the cruise industry that, on the flip side, has only been growing over the last decade. Why would they? They were there for a few days at most, so why not spend it lounging around a pleasant, nondescript, beach before hopping onto the ship to repeat the routine at the next Caribbean island on the itinerary? I always thought of the monstrously huge boats as eyesores and assumed they were carrying tourists who didn't really care about the place they were visiting. Around the winter holidays, we'd go to Puerto Rico, where my mother's from.Įven as a kid, I can remember walking around Old San Juan, the historical quarter of Puerto Rico's capital city, and seeing huge cruise ships docking in the harbor. We'd go for weeks on end, and I remember I spent a lot of time feeling bored. Since we lived in the UK, my family would always go to the same seaside town in Spain during summer. The likely explanation for my longtime disdain for cruises is my parents and the types of vacations they took me on as a kid.
There are two types of people – those who cruise and those who don't. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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