Cruise Ships and Foreign Travel - Becoming a Tour/Travel Guide

Cruise Ships

What you don't know about cruise ships and cruises can be harmful to your vacation and pocketbook. An informed customer is a smart customer that finds in advance the 'ins and outs' of booking a cruise, finding great ports of call, knowing how much to spend, and generally doing good planning.

An elderly couple were on a cruise and it was really stormy. They were standing on the back of the boat watching the moon, when a wave came up and washed the old woman overboard.

They searched for days and couldn't find her, so the captain sent the old man back to shore with the promise that he would notify him as soon as they found something. Three weeks went by and finally the old man got a fax from the boat.

It read: "Sir, sorry to inform you, we found your wife dead at the bottom of the ocean. We hauled her up to the deck and attached to her butt was an oyster and in it was a pearl worth $50,000 . please advise."

The old man faxed back: "Send me the pearl and re-bait the trap."

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Cruise Ship Concerns

Here are a few of the many items that you should consider, before paying for and boarding a cruise ship:

Additional Visitor Information

Alternative Dining

Balcony Cabins

Beauty Salon Treatments Cost

Best Shore Excursions

Cabins with Private Balconies - Verandas

Classes of passengers

Classes offered to passengers

Complete Sightseeing Information

Constant Music Outdoors

Cost including airfare, taxes, tips, on-shore events, etc.

Cruise Itineraries

Cruise Line Brochures

Cruise Passengers, average age and type of

Cruise Terminal and docking at home and in ports

Cruises per Year

Exercise rooms

Formal Nights and types of entertainment

Free Airfare

Freestyle Cruising

Golf Simulator

Includes Port Calls

Includes Exotic Massages

Lifeboat Obstructed Views

Line for Embarkation

Lounge Area with Sofa

Lower Bed stall Berths

Main Show lounge

Major Cabaret Acts

Make Port Calls

Medical services

Newest Vessel

Onboard Activities

Onboard Currency

Other Major Cruise Lines

Other Small Ships

Passengers per Day

Principal Show lounge

Promenade Deck Outdoors

Security

Separate Shower Enclosure

Ship Reviews

Shipboard Account

Ships Offer

Shore Excursions

Shorter Cruises

Show Lounge

Smutty Comedy or Family Comedy

Standard Cabins include what

Standard Outside View

Transportation to and from ship and in ports