How many cruises?

[Justalone]

I myself have not taken a cruise yet.  
But my friend, who is homeless, took 30 cruises last year.

[CruiseWendy]

How many of you with multiple cruise live within driving distance of the ports? The max I've done is two however I have to fly everywhere. Unless I do an Alaska Cruise every other week as I can see the ships from my office 🙂

[LadyLion_AP]

10 minutes ago, CruiseWendy said:

How many of you with multiple cruise live within driving distance of the ports? The max I've done is two however I have to fly everywhere. Unless I do an Alaska Cruise every other week as I can see the ships from my office 🙂

I have to fly to most ports....live in the DC area. I also work full-time...so two of my cruises this year are short (4 nights & 5 nights). This year...two short cruises out of FL, one out of California, & one from Barcelona. None will be from Baltimore or NY...although I’ve cruise from each of those ports once in the past. 

[DaKa2002]

13 minutes ago, CruiseWendy said:

How many of you with multiple cruise live within driving distance of the ports? The max I've done is two however I have to fly everywhere. Unless I do an Alaska Cruise every other week as I can see the ships from my office 🙂

Seven of our 33 cruises have been to Alaska - just love those.  Must make you itch for a return trip to watch the ships from your office!

We have done 33 cruises in the 40 years since our first cruise in 1979.  The longest was 16 nights; the shortest was Disney 4 nights out of Port Canaveral.  We were working much more than '9 to 5' during 30 of those years, which meant typically 1 cruise a year!  Usually fly somewhere in the world to a port for a cruse; drove to Galveston's port for 2 cruises, nothing really exciting out of there.

[The Grumpus]

Five 7-night cruises.

[rolloman]

49 minutes ago, twodaywonder said:

Never did back to back. If you ever decide to do a Halloween do it on Carnival. They do it right. We did one on Royal and they just do not do it right. They ended up cramming everyone in the atrium. That was a mess. You would not believe the fantastic way people get made up for that. You sit by the casino and watch them constantly walking by to take pictures. A lot of fun. Most of the time the crew dresses up also.

Sounds good to me! I will check into it for this year. FYI.....by back to back I meant 16 cruises in a two year span. 

[Missusdubbya]

8 in 2019. 1 from Australia (not really driving distance from home though) and 7 from US ports. Only have 1 booked for this year so far though......

[Port of Tampa]

Six was my best year...work keeps getting in the way.

[JessyCruises]

7 or 8 depending on whether you are talking Jan-Dec or just over 12 months.  

[lovelife]

18

[dani negreanu]

In a good year - 2.

 

[cruisegirl1]

Wonder is there is a correlation between a high number of cruises and close proximity to a cruise port.  I suspect (in general) those  who live an hour or less drive from a port have more cruises per year than someone who has to fly to each cruise. 
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[ONECRUISER]

1 hour ago, Justalone said:

I myself have not taken a cruise yet.  
But my friend, who is homeless, took 30 cruises last year.

Havent had permanent home in 14 yrs myself. Was on Cruise Ships 124 nites from Oct 27-2018-Nov2019

[broadwaybaby123]

Due to work schedules, I can only take a max of 2 per year, so I go on a cruise about every 6 months.  

[dani negreanu]

36 minutes ago, cruisegirl1 said:

Wonder is there is a correlation between a high number of cruises and close proximity to a cruise port.  I suspect (in general) those  who live an hour or less drive from a port have more cruises per year than someone who has to fly to each cruise. 
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Exactly. We're retired, but having to fly [most of the time many hours] for every cruise "impacts" our cruising budget.....

[sea shepherd]

My best was 2016 I did 19 that year 🤔

[hshowalter]

My wife & I have done 10 cruises two times. 128 cruises all total.

[STANMELB]

Did 10 in 2019. Will do 6 to 8 this year.

[John&LaLa]

2 hours ago, cruisegirl1 said:

Wonder is there is a correlation between a high number of cruises and close proximity to a cruise port.  I suspect (in general) those  who live an hour or less drive from a port have more cruises per year than someone who has to fly to each cruise. 
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I'm sure for some folks, but on the other side of the coin are folks tired of the same old cruise all the time. 

 

FWIW, this year we are only sailing from home twice.

[cruisegirl1]

2 minutes ago, John&LaLa said:

 

I'm sure for some folks, but on the other side of the coin are folks tired of the same old cruise all the time. 

 

FWIW, this year we are only sailing from home twice.

We have friends who sail the weekend cruise from PC at least twice each month, some even more. I agree with you....as much as I like cruising, I would tire of it. 
 

So-Only two cruises from Florida?  
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Edited February 9, 2020 by cruisegirl1

[godawgs227]

2 - 3 per year on average. This year a 12 nighter(Celebrity Silhouette - first time on Celebrity) in March and a B2B(RC Liberty) in Aug/Sept. 

[xpcdoojk]

6 hours ago, twodaywonder said:

Never did back to back. If you ever decide to do a Halloween do it on Carnival. They do it right. We did one on Royal and they just do not do it right. They ended up cramming everyone in the atrium. That was a mess. You would not believe the fantastic way people get made up for that. You sit by the casino and watch them constantly walking by to take pictures. A lot of fun. Most of the time the crew dresses up also.

 

Try a royal ship with a royal promenade.  Quite the festivity.  We did the Symphony TA in 2018.  Amazing amount of costumes and the quality was off the charts.

 

jc

[John&LaLa]

9 hours ago, cruisegirl1 said:

We have friends who sail the weekend cruise from PC at least twice each month, some even more. I agree with you....as much as I like cruising, I would tire of it. 
 

So-Only two cruises from Florida?  
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No, from PC (your 100 mile qualifier)

Oasis - Miami

Mariner - PC

Harmony - PC

Allure -Ft Lauderdale/Barcelona

Liberty - Galveston

Odyssey - Ft Lauderdale 

Oasis - Miami

 

Should have been Jewel -Rome/Dubai, but Royal cancelled

 

Nothing booked out of PC for 2021, but we are flying to Sydney, Singapore, and Barcelona. The Barcelona voyage does end up at home. That's  nice

 

So, we don't tire of cruising, just that same weekend trip over and over.  Unless the casino gives them away like last summer😉

 

Edited February 9, 2020 by John&LaLa

[villager70]

8 last year and seven booked in next 11 months.  Bob & Nancy

[gatour]

Three cruises in one calendar year.  Four days in one 12 month period.  This was abnormal, we usually do one cruise a year.  21 days at sea during one year.

 

While not within an hour drive time (or 100 miles) for all of the ports we cruise from.  One is, the other two are within a short a 5 or 6 hour drive (we like to either drive down the day before or halfway down.  If we had to fly, we would not be doing as many cruises.  We do fly "speciality" cruieses (Med, TA)