On 3/9/2013 5:04 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

If you can get on a ship that takes you somewhere difficult or
impossible to get to any other way, it could be fun, but the way these
ships do it, it just seems like a way to overstuff yourself with food
while you make a mad dash to one island after another, all of which are
easily reached by plane in package deals that give you time to enjoy
your destination. Instead, you and your honey enjoy the privacy,
intimacy and overindulgences of being aboard a floating hotel with 2000
people you'll probably hope you never see again. Blech.

The ships remind of waterborne versions of the old Catskills resorts
like the Concord, Grossingers, et cetera. Back in the 1970s, when I
worked for the teachers union, the New York state outfits sometimes had
their annual conventions at these hotels, *after* Labor Day, when the
prices were slashed. Not a bad idea to bring 500 people to an
all-inclusive hotel with lots of activities, off the beaten path, and a
low day rate.

There's your intolerance rearing it's ugly head again.