Would you ever have thought of taking a cruise to celebrate Christmas?
Joanna Hall suggests it as an alternative Christmas event and I admit it has got my imagination racing!
Whether as local as the Murray (traveling its length and experiencing the locks would be fascinating) or as exotic as Saigon or the Black Forest, it would certainly give you a Christmas to remember!
If you were going to cruise over Christmas, and forget practicalities like costs for a moment, which river or waterways would you like to cruise on? Would you go for a cold and potentially white Christmas or a warm southern celebration?
I think being on the ship at Christmas would bring the passengers and crew together in a way unlikely to occur on the same cruise at a different time so it would add an extra element to the cruise as well as being a different Christmas venue.
This reminds me of the moving, Christmas with the Kranks, which was based on John Grisham’s book, Skipping Christmas. The couple decides to skip their big, elaborate Christmas and go on a cruise instead. That back fires on them, and it turns into a heart warming Christmas story.
I don’t think I could ever go on a cruise for Christmas – I would miss my tree and my decorations and traditions too much! Definitely a New Year’s cruise, though – THAT would be awesome! I would want to go somewhere tropical, and ring in the New Year in the deck pool with a margarita in hand.
Good idea Laura – New Year’s on a boat could be a lot of fun 🙂
I assuem the tree and decorations would still be there on a boat, but not your own ones of course.
I might just dig out that Grisham book 🙂
It would be very tempting to do something like a Disney cruise and bring all the kids. My sister-in-law went on a Disney cruise with her daughter several years back and loved it. I know the kids would have a ball, and we adults probably would too, but I don’t know if it would *really* feel like Christmas. Christmas (for us in the States) is cold weather, bundled up before heading out, frost collecting on the windows, and red cheeks and noses just like Santa’s. Add a dash of the regular family crazies — and that’s our Christmas! lol
A Disney cruise? Never head of them but it would certainly be different.
I think having a totally different Christmas a couple of times in a life is a fun change – a cold, white Christmas sounds foreign to me but it would be interesting to try at least once…
It would be nice I suppose to go on a cruise for Christmas, but call me old fashion if you will,but I would rather stay home around family and spend the Christams season in the traditional way, around the tree , visiting family, eating , in the snow etc. I love getting together for holidays and especially Christmas, I like going to church plays and dinners, just everything about Christmas amongst family and good friends. I think I would save the cruise for in the summer as a family vacation or such.
I don’t know that I’d call you old fashioned for that, Dorothy – being with family and friends is a great thing to do I think. I spent one Christmas completely away from family and the usual celebrations and it didn’t feel like Christmas as such although I enjoyed it.
I never thought about a cruise for Christmas. I have a HUGE family and at Christmas there is about 40 family members gathered at my Mom’s. If money was no problem, I would pay for each of us to go on a cruise to Alaska. I would buy all the tickets for that ship so it would only be my family. I am a little selfish at Christmas with my family. We would have the boat decorated to the hilt. My family would be the one’s telling and ecnouraging the workers to join us so it would be a cruise of fun. I could let my imagination go wild on this but I won’t. Just imagine a cruise ship full of country folks singing and dancing to Christmas songs and helping the staff, yes, we would do that. This would be a Christmas staff nor family would every forget.
What a lovely dream Lisa. It would be a LOT of fun to take over a boat like that, be with family and yet experience new places and something completely different.
I hope you get to do that, or something similar, one day 🙂
I really enjoy spending Christmas at home with my family but it would be very refreshing to spend it on a cruise ship for once. I think I would choose warm southern celebration. I wonder how it is, I mean having no snow for Christmas? December in the place I live is always cold and snowy.
For me, Christmas in warmth and no snow is compeltely normal! I mean a cold Christmas Day for us is probably about 18 (sorry – I don’t know farenheit to translate that for you) but most years it’s much warmer than that.
What is a warm Christmas like? Well, in an Australian Christmas, we wear summery clothes, can eat outdoors (whether we do often depends on what space is available at each function!), walk around to look at Christmas lights, we often overheat our homes by cooking traditional roast meals despite the heat, can walk in a park or along a beach after Christmas lunch and it is a great start to summer holdiays really! Our schools stop soemtime in December and go back late January/early Febraury – Christmas is also the end of the school year so it gets pretty exciting and busy in total.
A number of cruises hit various Aussie cities for Christmas, too