Are you addicted to cruising?

I just got this in an email from Cruise Critic.

It's spot on - embarrassing - but spot on. :eek:

To determine how much of a cruise addict you really are, we've made a list of 21 obvious warning signs. How many apply to you?

1. You basically work to fund your next cruise

2. Your smartphone and/or computer wallpaper is a cruise ship or destination

3. You unwittingly use cruise lingo throughout the day (Example: Referring to your bedroom as a cabin)

4. Some of your closest friends are people you met while cruising

5. You suffer from Post-Cruise Depression

6. You plan your next cruise while onboard — or before! — your current one

7. You're a top-tier member of at least one cruise line

8. Other cruisers always come to you for tips and tricks you've accrued over time

9. Your home is full of cruise-related decor, memorabilia or souvenirs

10. Most of your conversations always lead to cruising

11. You've memorized the layout of a number of ships

12. That swaying motion you feel after you disembark no longer fazes you

13. You can count the exact number of days until your next cruise

14. On holidays and birthdays, you always receive at least one cruise-related gift

15. You could spend hours on cruise sites

16. You've planned an imaginary cruise just to get your fix

17. When you get invited somewhere, you have to double-check your calendar to make sure you're not cruising

18. You've hosted a Cruise Critic meet-and-mingle

19. A world cruise is one of your biggest fantasies

20. You're never fully unpacked

21. You've lost track of your bucket list

83 days until NCL Jade

118 days until MSC Divina

441 days until RC Navigator

678 days until MSC Bellissima

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18/21

18 out of 21 as well. [emoji4]

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15 :o

307 Days left until MSC Meraviglia (Western Mediterranean)

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It looks like we would go with 4 of 21.

Most important is :

4. Some of your closest friends are people you met while cruising

Can relate to a couple of the others .

6/21

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14

Hm, that's only a 66% -- a D. Not good. I must work harder.

Other than # 1, I fulfill them all.

We were addicted to cruising before there was a Cruise Critic :) I wonder how many here go back to Prodigy, Genie, and AOL days.

Hank

GEnie. --- I asked Jeeves.

Lots of guilty people on here.:p

Guilty.

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18 of 21. or 19, considering our holiday and birthday present to each other is a cruise.

Addicted? Surely not. I could stop anytime... right.

Yep, sure am.

2,6,9,11,12 and 13

I'm perfect

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I just got this in an email from Cruise Critic.

It's spot on - embarrassing - but spot on. :eek:

 

 

 

To determine how much of a cruise addict you really are, we've made a list of 21 obvious warning signs. How many apply to you?

1. You basically work to fund your next cruise

 

2. Your smartphone and/or computer wallpaper is a cruise ship or destination

 

3. You unwittingly use cruise lingo throughout the day (Example: Referring to your bedroom as a cabin)

 

4. Some of your closest friends are people you met while cruising

 

5. You suffer from Post-Cruise Depression

 

6. You plan your next cruise while onboard — or before! — your current one

 

7. You're a top-tier member of at least one cruise line

 

8. Other cruisers always come to you for tips and tricks you've accrued over time

 

9. Your home is full of cruise-related decor, memorabilia or souvenirs

 

10. Most of your conversations always lead to cruising

 

11. You've memorized the layout of a number of ships

 

12. That swaying motion you feel after you disembark no longer fazes you

 

13. You can count the exact number of days until your next cruise

 

14. On holidays and birthdays, you always receive at least one cruise-related gift

 

15. You could spend hours on cruise sites

 

16. You've planned an imaginary cruise just to get your fix

 

17. When you get invited somewhere, you have to double-check your calendar to make sure you're not cruising

 

18. You've hosted a Cruise Critic meet-and-mingle

 

19. A world cruise is one of your biggest fantasies

 

20. You're never fully unpacked

 

21. You've lost track of your bucket list

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8 often can't say always

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21

8/21 :D

Tony

3/21 only

.... and one of those is spending hours on cruise websites (and I think that is on the wane). Another is never fully unpacked, but that is often because we've been on land-based trips.

I've ticked off a lot of places I wanted to 'get a taste of' over the last couple of years (I did seven cruises last year!) and I think that the manic cruising I've been doing will shrink down to a January cruise and late-booked bargain cruises eventually. Being from the UK, I am not happy with the unequal treatment of bookings in the UK and the USA (and it has nothing to do with UK consumer laws before that old chestnut is brought up again!) so I'll be voting with my feet .... and as I'm clearly NOT addicted, no matter.

Nice thread though.

I'm really enjoying hearing from my fellow addicts.

We're only 16 out of the 21 . ;p

Maybe we need to set up a support group - oh wait - Cruise Critic has already done that. ;)

So maybe we need to arrange a "meeting" once a month or so . On a ship, of course.

(For those of you taking this seriously, no, we can't really afford to do that either -)

1 - only this year

5,8,11,12,13,15

20 - like mrsgoggins I have other land reasons to be packed

21 - after visiting all 50 states I no longer have a bucket list but am willing to travel anywhere.

19/21 so I think I have a problem. My only hope is to book another cruise.

We enjoy cruising more than land vacations. But I won't use the word addicted. I can't afford to be addicted. We have only been on 4 cruises. Not that we don't want to cruise, just hard to afford it.