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On gay.com, if you display your true age (as I do) less than 5% of the people want to chat with you and I know many of them have been forced to lie about their posted age. Will I experience much of the same as a first time sailor on an all gay cruise? So many people appear to believe that if you are not in your twenties with ripped abs, perfect teeth and model's features - you are less than desireable. Any senior men gone solo and still had a good time and worth the price paid?

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You'll do fine. My motto is the most important thing to pack for vacation is a great attitude. Gay cruises attract a really wide range of men, and as long as you are friendly, open and pleasant I bet you'll have a great time. If you're going as a single traveler, plug into a variety of social planned opportunities (there's scads of them) early in the cruise and I'm sure your fun friends dance card will fill easily.

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I don't know how old you are but we're in our early fourties and having only cruised RCL and X, we were exactly the avaerage age on RCL and about 10-15 younger than average than on X. The cruise world seems less youth-centred than the gay one.

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Go on an RSVP cruise and you will have a great time. There will be people older than you and no attitude. The Mexican Riviera cruise we just returned from was full of bears and other non-gym bodies. There were several men who looked more like Santa Claus than any porn star.

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You are obviously experienced cruisers and Lee must enjoy taking pics - what a great treat for those of us contemplating a first ever cruise. It seems like almost everyone was a 'couple' - what is the ratio on average cruises...........mostly couples? THANKS for all the photo pages on the different ships. Have you ever done a 'Maiden' voyage and are you thinking of being on the Queen Victoria's in 2008? BTW, I'm 65, 6'5" tall and single.

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I'm 61 & single. I've gone on several Atlantis land-based vacations as well as their cruises. FOR THE MOST PART, attitudes have been left at home. On the Atlantis cruise to the Mexican Riviera, the ages ranged from early 20s to 83. I use a walker to get around and everyone was most accomodating about moving out of the way or holding elevators for me, or opening doors for me.

 

I think you'll have a good time on any gay cruise or vacation you choose.

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You are obviously experienced cruisers and Lee must enjoy taking pics - what a great treat for those of us contemplating a first ever cruise. It seems like almost everyone was a 'couple' - what is the ratio on average cruises...........mostly couples? THANKS for all the photo pages on the different ships. Have you ever done a 'Maiden' voyage and are you thinking of being on the Queen Victoria's in 2008? BTW, I'm 65, 6'5" tall and single.

 

Thanks, Mike is the real photographer. I write some captions but he's the one who remembers to pick up a camera.

 

I would not personally want to go on a maiden voyage for a few reasons. First, it's often twice as much as waiting a few months and all you really get are the bragging rights. Second, the kinks may not have been worked out and you may be serving as guinea pigs for future cruisers. We went on Freedom of the Seas 17th paid voyage and thought it was perfect. Everything was humming along and there were none of the glitches that popped up in earlier trip reports, like slow disembarkation, spotty room service, etc. It takes the staff a while to "learn" a new ship.

 

Based on the gay people we have met while cruising, I would say that one single person for each couple is about right (I meant that in a more wholesome way than it sounds in re-reading it). It may be that couples are more quickly befriended or identified because it is more obvious that they're gay and so they get noticed; I'm not sure.

 

I do agree with others who say that they have befriended as many straight people as gay ones on cruises but it is always nice to meet up with "family." Our experience is that folks are more sociable on cruises and so simply saying "hello" early in the week can strike up a conversation and friendship. This may sound silly but we also go to the photo gallery on the first day and check out the embarkation pictures, to see how many same-sex couples there are. This is not at all scientific but it is a good form of silly fun.

 

Lastly, there always seem to be a gay people on cruises who have no interest whatever in joining up with others for drinks or socialising. They clearly "seem" gay to me but they show no interest in becoming my best friend because of that one thing we have in common. That's fine, it's their holiday, too. It never occurred to me until a friend said but maybe they're not out to their families and they don't want to be outed by hanging around with others who they see as more obviously gay. I have no idea.

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Both Mike and Lee sure have done a lot for newbie travelers with their huge photo pages of their excursions and short commentary. I tend to agree on the price of a 'Maiden' voyage and it is only logical that staff will be much smoother as a team once a few cruises are under their belt. And one doesnt need to pay for kinks on an expensive cruise. I also remember the episode with the Crown Princess listing severly going out of port near Miami - that had to have horrified a lot of people. Hopefully everyone knows what switches do what NOW on the Bridge of the Crown. These things look top-heavy as it is. Any one experience 30 foot seas or more on one yet? Are their months to avoid trans-ocean crossings or do you just pick a cruise and go for it? (Sorry for any dumb questions)

 

You all have eased any thoughts I might have had about being solo as a mature guy on a cruise - Thanks!

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I think the months to avoid the TA crossings are the same as hurricaine season because many of them spin our in the Atlantic. Hurricaine season is from late June to late November, peaking in Sept/Oct. That said, we went on Freedom of the seas in Hurricaine season and had the most perfect weather and reduced rates (relatively speaking). It turned out to have been a good gamble.

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Lee, sorry to dissagree, but if you avoid Transatlantics from June to October, you're likely to miss most opportunities to do one:eek: , and it's my favorite type of cruise/trip. :) The Caribbean would be a more likely place to avoid...;)

 

I've done them in every month from April to November, and while there WERE hurricanes on the Atlantic some of the time, our ships really never came close to one. The advantage of a ship is that it can move out of the path of a hurricane...one of the smoothest crossings we had was when hurricanes were raging in the Atlantic...our captain steered a new course, and we had sunny 80 degree weather, no missed ports, and arrived on time(darnit!).

 

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Andrew,

 

I'll defer to your experience but aren't there are great number of eastbound TA's in the spring because the ships are going to Europe for the season? The hurricaine comment was based on watching maps fastidiously (sp?) while waiting for our Freedom cruise but I'm sure that you're right that they can avoid them to some extent.

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I'll defer to your experience but aren't there are great number of eastbound TA's in the spring because the ships are going to Europe for the season?

 

That makes sense. Excepting that I wouldn't really fancy crossing the Atlantic on a ship that was built for the Caribbean - they have neither the speed nor the stability to cope with even slightly bad weather.

 

The time that the Atlantic weather is the worst is from the end of December until the end of March. This is why the traditional time for a world cruise is then - the lines couldn't make a profit in those months and used their ships in the calmer waters elsewhere.

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Yes, you're right, there are several/many in May for repositioning the ships for the Med/Northern Europe summer cruises. But, by far, my favorites have been Westbound in late summer/early Fall. But it's o.k. if we scare a few people away...makes them more affordable for me!:D

 

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Hi please pardon me for replying to this old thread.

 

I am Asian, 34 years old, gay, working in Tokyo. I am eager to start my first cruise ship experience, so I came here for some advice.

 

The thicky thing is I am genuinely attracted to much older men, who are 65 and up, but got declined by a lot of times because I looked too young for their taste.

 

I wonder is there some cruising line which has a more senior crowd and they would be intrersted in a single young asian man and we can have some fun.

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On gay.com, if you display your true age (as I do) less than 5% of the people want to chat with you and I know many of them have been forced to lie about their posted age. Will I experience much of the same as a first time sailor on an all gay cruise? So many people appear to believe that if you are not in your twenties with ripped abs, perfect teeth and model's features - you are less than desireable. Any senior men gone solo and still had a good time and worth the price paid?
Never heard of gay.com. I am 57,recently single. Would love a travel buddy. I am on the shy side. Better one on one,instead of crowds. Edited by garsny
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Hi please pardon me for replying to this old thread.

 

I am Asian, 34 years old, gay, working in Tokyo. I am eager to start my first cruise ship experience, so I came here for some advice.

 

The thicky thing is I am genuinely attracted to much older men, who are 65 and up, but got declined by a lot of times because I looked too young for their taste.

 

I wonder is there some cruising line which has a more senior crowd and they would be intrersted in a single young asian man and we can have some fun.

 

Never sailed, but I have heard luxury lines tend to draw a more mature crowd, Oceania, Cunard, Seabourn, Silversea, Azamara. Also on transatlantic voyages which tend to be longer and draw retired people as not a lot people can afford to be out of their job for 2 weeks or more in a row.

 

But I guess it just depends. We saw a couple on a transatlantic trip on a Royal Caribbean ship, which usually is thought to be more for families and younger couples, they were around 60 and 30. The next year, we ran into them again on a Norwegian cruise line ship.

 

Good luck on your first cruise experience!

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