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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by nullstyle on Sunday September 08, 2024 @09:48AM (#41480385)
There’s a different kind of serendipity that comes with Cruise vacations as opposed to road tripping, but it’s still very much there. Furthermore, I can’t really have a road trip experience with 16 people in my travel group; If we want to be together, we’ll be stuck, packed into a van. I can have a great cruise experience with a group that size on a cruise or at a resort.

I say this is someone who had taken multiple motorcycle trips across the US. Coast to coast on one of them and another down Baja.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by giantg2 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @11:11AM (#41480867)
"I can’t really have a road trip experience with 16 people in my travel group"

Convoys work for this. Perhaps even more fun if they're fun cars with a lower car to passenger ratio.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by nullstyle on Sunday September 08, 2024 @11:38AM (#41481024)
Convoys have become shit shows more often than not in my experience, but point taken. So many ways to skin the vacation-cat.
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by giantg2 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @12:06PM (#41481198)
Yeah, depends on the people and the quality of the vehicles. Motorcycle trips tend to work well as convoys.
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by lupire on Monday September 09, 2024 @10:40AM (#41488970)
Riding a motorcycle is not a substitute for sitting at a pool or restaurant. It's different.
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by giantg2 on Monday September 09, 2024 @06:56PM (#41495145)
We're talking about road trips. What are you talking about?
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by aj7 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @01:15PM (#41481617)
Serendipity on cruises, eh?

The axiom of cruises is: You will never see these people again.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by DiggyJohnson on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:44AM (#41489677)
Do people go cruising to make long term friends?
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by tssva on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:33PM (#41491078)
I have plenty of long term friends, but I have never done any activity with the explicit goal of gainng them.

That being said I have made long term friends on cruises.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by JKCalhoun on Sunday September 08, 2024 @07:04PM (#41484001)
Love to do the motorcycle road trip some day.

But I don't even have 16 friends so that will never be a problem. As the kids left the nest it has become just thew wife and I. We're a duprass.

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