<p>is there a good reason to go on such a cruise?</p>
<p>you just stay at each destination for 1 day. Then your parents, being socially influenced adults, as they are, want to eat "good food" in a restaurant every single freaking day on the cruise. Which means, of course, that I can't do anything without waiting for them. Besides, I have more stamina than anyone else in my family.</p>
<p>They tried to persuade me to go. "natural beauty" was one of the specified reasons. eh, I'd say that the best way to appreciate "natural beauty" is to look at NASA photographs. </p>
<p>I went on a cruise to Alaska 2 years ago, and the highlights of the cruise were playing video games and annoying all the other kids on the cruise with nerdy antics such as reciting the periodic table and bringing my math/science textbooks with me (though I didn't read them since I found animal behavior books in the cruise's library). We didn't do anything off the cruise.</p>
<p>Hell, I think people LIKE the cruise for its FOOD and its ENTERTAINMENT more so than the destinations, really. besides, there really isn't much there that is really unique - you could go hike in all the places in the world and still do nothing new or exciting (if you want beautiful scenery, look at the images!) And my parents say they like the beauty and trips when they really forget most of their trips anyways (hell I do memorize the maps of the regions of the places where my parents go, so I end up remembering more than they do)</p>
<p>Instead, I'll stay at home, free, studying from Apostol and other textbooks. ^_^</p>
<p>You don’t really appreciate natural beauty on a cruise. You’re in such close proximity to all sorts of human junk and waste (you have to be, as you can’t stray too far from it).</p>
<p>I don’t know though, I’m in this stuffy house every single freaking hour,and here’s an opportunity to temporarily change the setting. it would be interesting even if i lose a lot of time to this.</p>
<p>Yes. Go ahead and do it. You’ll be exposed to a lot of people. You may find something [or someone] interesting there. Law of Unintended Consequences. :p</p>
<p>THE FOOD IS AMAZING! and included with the price of the trip, so it seems like it’s free while you’re there.</p>
<p>yeah, i went with my moms whole extended family ages 14+ (like, 11 siblings and a bunch of kids) so nobody really noticed when i went to the workout room for hours on end. or i went to the free wifi, free coffee shop which overlooked the deck and studied APs. it was very pleasant.</p>
<p>I like traveling, but if you did not have fun on the last cruise, don’t go. I like it somewhat (land tours are better) and have been on eight, primarily because this is my mother’s preferred method of travel.</p>
<p>Cruises are annoying. You have to spend two hours a day at dinner listening to a bunch of old people talk about how rich they are.
The food is usually superb, though.</p>
<p>In general, most people probably go on vacations less for the experience than for the chance to break the humdrum monotony of everyday life. Travel is usually hectic and uncomfortable – you spend large chunks of time on the road, eat in crappy restaurants, and spend your nights sleeping with several people in a one-bedroom dwelling with really slow internet. (That is, if you’re lucky enough to even have a connection at all.) But I suppose it’s nice to be doing something new and different…</p>
<p>hmm, I’m really debating this… hmm…
since I really want to read math and physics, and I’m behind where I want to be. >.<</p>
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<p>Haha, that’s actually a pretty good plan. It could be more efficient than staying at home, with Internet serving as a distraction 24/7. </p>
<p>Though the last time I went to a cruise, the distractions were (a) annoying the other teenagers - they did seem to appreciate my presence, though; I think they wanted me to interact with them more but I spent the time reading or playing video games (b) reading the books in the cruise library, (c) playing the video games in the cruise entertainment center and (d) exploring the ship (I always have to explore every single place I go!!). hm. </p>
<p>Though I start annoying the heck out of everyone when I keep on asking “is this vegan, is this vegan?” my parents told me to shut those questions up and to trust them on such matters. sometimes i got really paranoid over whether the food was vegan or not… (certainly it meant that I only could try a very small sample of everything on the cruise)</p>
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<p>Ah yes, nice theory! Yeah, I think that explains it (maybe the justification for “seeing something” is a better justification" to others than the justification "I want to break this monotony). Despite all of the reductions in comfort <em>thinks of Lindell Lucy’s notes, heh</em></p>
<p>If you stay home alone, you throw massive house parties every night that they are gone and have even more fun.</p>
<p>Win-win situation. </p>
<p>My parents left me the house twice when I was a junior in high school. All I can say is that I had a great time, and it may have even been worth being grounded on prom night during my junior year.</p>
<p>I think you should go. I’d go if I had the chance and money, if not just for the opportunity of enjoying the scenery (well, there would not be much to see in the ocean, but still…). But then again, most of the times I go on vacation, it’s for sightseeing purpose more than anything else, so my opinion might not apply to you.</p>
<p>I’ve experienced a similar situation. My family wanted to go on a cruise to the Caribbean that they found online cheap, and I made a big deal about how I absolutely would not go because it meant missing the last few days of school and finding out chemistry final grades.
So finally when they went to buy the tickets, minus mine, all of the rooms were sold out. Needless to say, they were not pleased. </p>
<p>Cruises aren’t all that great. The best highlight is food, but otherwise it’s kinda boring. The TV shows the same movies over and over, you shop the same expensive stores repeatedly, and there’s lots of gambling and cigarette smoke.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m alone here, but the selfishness of some of you seems kind of astounding to me. Just humor your parents - go on the cruise! It’s not like this stuff is torture. If you really don’t want to do all the socializing, just bring your math textbook and hang out alone - which it sounds like you would be doing anyways.</p>
<p>Actually, I don’t consider myself selfish in my situation. They would have saved $600 instead of spending that amount on a disgruntled, brooding teenager who would have probably ruined all the fun, anyway. The only problem was they wasted time trying to convince me to go with them.</p>
<p>I agree. I always drag down my parents with stress and demands whenever I go (and I’m more curious and energetic than they are). Plus, the fact that I’m virtually vegan also really annoys them a lot whenever we go on vacation (since this time there are no ingredient labels so I have to ask incessantly). I think they’re more free without me.</p>
<p>Ha ha, yeah, that’s actually what I thought as well. If I had the free time and money (or parents who would be willing to pay), I’d definitely go. But then again, I don’t really have the luxury to actually take these kinds of things for granted, so I can probably never understand why you decided not to go. Besides, aren’t you supposed to be at school though? It’s already mid-September, and schools with semester system have already started for like, what, 2 weeks?</p>