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2. Popular Cruising Directions
Top 10 Cruise Destinations
10. Panama Canal
This canal is probably world’s most remarkable engineering project ever built. However, it’s not the only reason for suggesting this cruise trip. Two colossal oceans are joined and continents are separated by Panama Canal. The panoramas you will find here are extremely stupefying. However, the humidity and heat here is quite painful, but didn’t I ask you to get your sunscreen along?
9. Aruba
If they have Las Vegas, Caribbean has Aruba. With hundreds of luxurious resorts and lavish casinos, Aruba is a place to splurge. However, Aruba is endowed with many gorgeous beaches. Hence, if you are planning a trip to Vegas, you gonna miss something. Due to its wild environment, it attracts party-animals from all around the world.
8. Hong Kong
Don’t bother about the locals that are fleeing Hong Kong due to potential instability and politics. Thousands of tourists visit this place to enjoy the cruise-party offered by tour-providers here. So what if Hong Kong is no longer a financial hub of Asia, it still offers an opportunity to explore a bizarre way of enjoying the sea.
7. Norway
Although the gorgeous females of Scandinavian countries attract thousands of tourists each year, the geographical traits cannot be ignored. Sturdy mountains, crimson crags, coarse fjords, and azure water is how I define Norway.
6. Cayman Islands
For those who love to explore historic shipwrecks, marine reefs, and the expanse of downy white sand, no place on earth can beat Cayman Islands. Financiers call it tax heaven, travelers know it as ‘the ultimate heaven’. This place offers everything from chic hotels and fashionable shops to natural vistas and Caribbean charm. Another advantage of this place is you would not need a translator.
5. New Zealand / Australia
Few years ago there were no traces of cruise holidays in New Zealand. However, recently, they have emerged to be a leading vacation provider. And with such gorgeous vistas all around the country, they really didn’t need much to boost the business of cruise packages. On the other hand, Australia encompasses some of the most gorgeous beaches on earth. What more do you think a cruise excursion can offer? Do you like to party with Ozzies or Kiwis? Choose your pick.
4. Alaska
If you are a heat-loving traveler, visit any of the above mentioned beaches. Alaska is just not the place for you. However, if you love exploring ice-tipped mountains, stunning backdrops, and audacious adventures, you qualify to be a citizen here. And if you have left your wife back home, you can ascend Mt. McKinley, continent’s tallest peak, and have a look at her. And get down quickly after you catch a glimpse of her, the breeze here is very cold.
3. French Riviera
It’s quite difficult to narrow down the entertainment and adventures offered by the Mediterranean. However, let me try. If you ask me to choose the most striking place in Mediterranean, I will point toward French Riviera. The scenic views here are unforgettable. Really. I still remember everything.
2. Virgin Islands
If you are planning your first cruise trip, no place except Virgin Islands can be perfect for you; particularly, US Islands. These diminutive isles are less commercialized and more natural. Many private inlets and beaches will make your tour special.
1. Barbados
More than what you can imagine, Barbados has immaculate beaches, turquoise water, sweltering sunrays, courteous people, tropical vegetation, and unspoiled charm. There is a plethora of beaches. However, few coastlines like Batts Rock, Gibbs Beach, Paynes Bay, and Mullins Bay are exceptionally beautiful. Spending time at any one of these destinations is enough to enjoy a trip.
3. Kinds of Cruise Ships and
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MAINSTREAM CRUISE SHIP
It is the most common and popularly known type of cruise ship, marketed by most of the companies in the sector as floating resorts designed and equipped to suit the needs of the majority of cruise passengers. These vessels have a capacity for 850 – 3,000 passengers, and include all sorts of standard resort features, amenities and services, such as restaurants, bars and pubs, nightclubs and discos, shopping areas, theatres and cinemas, galleries and museums, libraries, casinos, personal care areas with gyms and spas, swimming pools and other sport facilities.
MEGA CRUISE SHIP
Cruise companies have answered the increasing world demand for this kind of services with the design and building of ever-bigger cruise ships able to accommodate more than 3,000 persons. Mega ships are a new class of cruise vessel, and the next step in terms of capacity and onboard services, with some units that routinely serve more than 5,000 passengers; currently the largest and more sophisticated vessels in the world.
SMALL CRUISE SHIP
Cruise ships ranging from motor or sail powered yacht-like vessels to medium-sized classic cruise ships with a capacity up to a few hundred passengers onboard, offering more intimate and relaxing experiences than the larger mass-market vessels in less familiar destinations, designed to provide specific services (ecotourism, culture or history cruises, conventions at sea, sea sports, single cruises, senior cruises, business incentive cruises, etc.) or as the only way to navigate through waters, small inlets, ports or archipelagos that would not support larger vessels, providing the same level of comfort and the basic amenities as that of mainstream cruise vessels.
OCEAN CRUISE SHIP
A type of cruise ship built to more exacting standards than more conventional vessels, with substantially more solid designs and more resistant structures to withstand the especially harsh conditions of ocean voyages in long and world cruises.
LUXURY CRUISE SHIP
Motor or sail powered cruise ships equipped with the most sophisticated and technologically advanced nautical systems, high standard features and luxurious comforts to meet the special demands of an exclusive clientele looking for longer itineraries and more exotic destinations around the world.
ADVENTURE CRUISE SHIP
Cruise ships designed and equipped to provide services that include visits of remote destinations, most commonly out-of-the-way or inaccessible to larger vessels. Marketed to a very specific sector of clientele, adventure cruise ships are far smaller than mainstream vessels, usually sail powered and generally equipped with luxury features.
EXPEDITION CRUISES SHIP
Specially designed ships, or adapted research or icebreaker vessels, operated by specialized companies to offer their customers an exclusive experience in remote destinations and waterways, such as the Arctic and Antarctic regions or coastal areas in ecological and biosphere reserves, in what can be seen more than private expeditions than conventional cruises onboard vessels with an adequate level of comfort, safety and services, which include inflatable motor boats and, sometimes, even helicopters for expedition trips and shore landings.
RIVER CRUISE SHIP
Always smaller than seagoing cruise ships, and with a capacity for no more than a few hundred passengers, these vessels are specially designed to navigate rivers and inland waterways, offering from exciting experiences onboard ultra high-tech units, to nostalgic trips on paddleboats ships in rivers such as Amazon, Nile, Rhine, Siene, Volga, Mississippi, Yangtse, and many more in all the world.
5. Do you want to travel by cruise? Explain why.
Yes, actually I want to work in a cruise line. Since, I tried to travel to every place by plane or by land; I would like also try to travel by cruise. I bet this is a very exciting one because in a cruise, you can see a nice view of its place, you can breathe fresh air, you can go at night parties, mingle with other people and most especially you can enjoy your stay because of the ambiance. With this, you were likely staying in a hotel. Also I want to travel by cruise because I think it is more romantic, especially if you are with your special someone. I hope soon I will be there talking to well educated person and managing my own business.
References:
http://www.travelworth.com/hot-top-10-cruise-destinations.html
http://www.windrosenetwork.com/The-Cruise-Industry-Types-of-Cruise-Ships.html
Danica Tricia Dela Cruz
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