The ship IS the vacation. First time cruisers like myself need to know that -- it's important. Once I learned and accepted that fact, I started to enjoy my first-ever family cruise. We sailed the world's largest cruise ship to the Bahamas and, because I love to experience new cultures, I was anxious to arrive at our first port. That anxiety made for a very long 3 days! Instead of luxuriating in all that the ship had to offer, I was thinking of the cruise ship as a mode of transportation. OK, an expensive one, but a way of getting us from one island to another.
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