I love cruising so a world cruise should be my dream? Right? Well… Not exactly! There’s lots of reasons why I don’t want to take a world cruise and I’ll explore them in this video.
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n an average year 20 million people take a cruise and tens of thousands of them book a trip that is over 90 days long. These world cruises range all the way up to almost a year in length and even though I have been cruising since I was a child, I work onboard ships and I cruise multiple times a year, I don’t want to take a world cruise, for a few reasons. Price isn’t one of the reasons either, if you gave me a world cruise budget I have another idea what I’d do with it.
The cruise that has been attracting the worlds attention lately is Royal Caribbeans 274 night Ultimate World Cruise. It starts in Miami, heading around the Americas before crossing over to the pacific, passing through the middle east and Europe before ending again in the US. That means the passengers pack up and leave their homes and families in December and don’t get home again until the following September. Given the prices of some of these cruises some people won’t just be packing up their homes, but they’ll be selling them completely, or cashing in their pensions to fund the trip.
I say cashing in their pensions because although the average age of somebody taking a cruise in the Caribbean is 43 and there are plenty of cruise lines aimed at families the average world cruiser is 20 years older coming in at an average age of 63.
There are lots of cruise lines that do world cruises every year, they vary a lot in the ships decor, the formality, the passengers but the one thing that they have in common is that they always seem to use their oldest and smallest ships for these itineraries. I say small, they still usually hold multiple thousands of people but for me I think I’d miss the excitement of the newer ships.
I have cruised on plenty of small ships, the smallest ship I’ve sailed on had just 19 passengers but there is something so fun for me personally about going on a cruise ship and going go karting or skydiving or surfing I love watching the big broadway shows, going to the aqua theatre or the ice skating rink. The ships doing world cruises don’t have those things.
I suppose nobody really needs try the surfing simulator every day for 9 months, but just think how good you’d be by the end!
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All ok if conditions are optimal if not you will skip ports..
Can't wait hear about the Further Adventures of SockMan
I thought Hudson would be the number one reason.
I don't get this idea of selling your home or cashing your pension and going on a 9 month world cruise thing.
What do these people do when they come back from the trip?
Do they buy a small apartment?
Yeah, get back to us in 40 years. 😀 I wouldn't take a world cruise when I was 12 either (to me anyone under 38 is 12 haha . . . ).😄
Sock Man sounds like the lamest superhero ever, just don't let him partner up with Sandal Man :/
If you ever get to California, I’d be fascinated to see your reactions to spending a couple days on the retired ocean liner RMS Queen Mary – and how the ship compares to modern cruise ships.
Too many people, too busy, getting sick every easy .
I couldn't leave my two purr machines alone for that long. They hardly tolerate it when I am not working from home. Vacation longer than 5 days? I end up missing them terribly and feeling bad for leaving them "alone" (in the hand of others, of course, looking after them in the meantime).
Valid points but when you fly to Australia at some point it might change your mind about sailing here instead 😂
If you have this kind of money, you're either very old, or work so much you can't take this long or a vacation
Frankly idk how this is even viable, it would make more sense for there to be an easy transition from one itinerary or other for people who want to do this, with different or the same cabins
That would be more cost effective for the cruises and people still can go everywhere
Will there be a second video of MSC World Europa cruise?
GENIUS !!!….."Emma Cruises' Lifeboat-Cabin Cruises". A little claustrophobic, but you'd make $$ millions !!
If you have huge financial resources I think you would be better doing sectors from world cruises. The wow factor of any ship wears off after ten days.
I just got home the other day from a 2 week Panama Canal cruise. I had an inside cabin. I could have done another week inside but that would be it. I did miss my nice Memory foam and gell bed and pillows with bamboo sheets. I also did mos my multi head walk in shower.
I would miss my kids and grandkids too much. And my own toast. I am even fussy on the type of bread I use so I totally get the toast comment.
I just can't imagine spending 9 months on a ship and I'm at that average age of 63. I do like a sea day, but I find they are best if they are spaced out, maybe every third or fourth day.
At 64 I shared a 140 square foot cabin, in the TOP bunk, with my husband and disabled son for 31 days. Thirty one days!! We got along beautifully, but I got sincerely weary of that boat, which was far from the finest afloat.
I used to think a world cruise would be great, but I don't think I could do it. Back in 2017 my mother wanted to do a 35 day Brisbane to Brisbane cruise that went out around Hawaii, Tonga and Bora Bora. At first I was excited, but I realised that even after a 14 day cruise, by the end I can't wait to get home. Plus there were a lot of sea days, and there's only so much Trivia you can play! One thing that isn't mentioned is that the cost of excursions with the number of ports in a world cruise would probably double the cost of the trip. There have been lots of stories in the press lately about people retiring to cruise ships, but those people only seem to have 3 year plans – what happens after that if you've sold all your assets and have nowhere to live? The insurance costs for elderly passengers is very high and cruise ships aren't floating hospitals either.
Our longest cruise was 28 days, a trans-Atlantic to the Baltic countries. The time flew and it was over way too soon!
What if you like to carry mints around, would you still be minted
I would never do a cruise of that length. Even a month is too long for me. I would miss my furry family members too much. Also, I like to go to places like Las Vegas and Yellowstone that are not cruise port availability. I love car trips and being on land where I can walk to many places of interest. Finally, that internet issue would drive me nuts. I'm on my phone too much to deal with that hassle 😅
Side note, I love all the Hudsons😊
Emma, Let me say I love your channel! I hope RC or one of the other cruise lines invites you to a all expenses paid world cruise for your VLOG in return as you're one of the best and would deliver a stellar product!
A masterclass in vlogging. I don't like cruises one little bit – but I watch all your videos because you present so well and keep the video moving forward in an interesting and unexpected way all the time. Toast on a cruise is rubbish? Wow, who knew!
Small ship for that many days especially sea days is a big no
For internet, get your own sat internet, only thing is youll need a balcony room to leave the antenna and occasionally you may not get coverage when the only visible sat is behind the ship, this is getting rarer though
Pretty sad that even a huge world cruise doesn't stop in Africa.
Either way, good luck cruising anywhere around the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden right now.