Why bother even going out to sea?

In a world where parents will spend excessively just to satisfy the "entitlement" addiction of their kids, a cruise ship like this will be well used. Families will spend the kids' college funds on something like this just to brag that they did it for the kids. There needs to be no justifiable reason for a corporation to invest millions in a floating amusement park. The justification is that the revenue from such an enterprise will certainly satisfy the stockholders. "A sucker is born every minute."

Why can't the military ever send a guy to somewhere picturesque, with wonderful weather and an abundance of sports bars?

Too many time illness go though ship like wildfire I not interested in floating hotel! I rather sail with Rebecca on her Ketch!! Much quiet and peaceful

I have never been on a cruise nor do I want to take a cruise. I truly think people take cruises so they can brag to their co-workers and relatives about it.

Too many bad things happen on cruises like sickness and people getting thrown overboard or the ship bumping into land and sinking. Eek!

Not for me but in younger days I took a couple of trips as a passenger on a large freighter. Once across the Atlantic and to ports around Europe and the Mediterranean and one to Australia where I spent a few months seeing the country and then returning on another freighter. Rather than a cruise, it was more a long, quiet boat ride on a very big ship. Port time was limited to how long it took to load and unload the ship.

No organized activities ... you brought your own amusement and hoped another passenger played scrabble or cards (no dominoes obviously) but I went prepared with lots of books, just in case. Dressing for dinner meant showering and putting on clean jeans and even that wasn't mandatory. Meals were with the Captain and other officers if they weren't busy at the time. I loved it but then I'm a hermit at heart.

Freighters could only carry a maximum of 12 passengers and often there were actually fewer so being able to adjust to ship life and amuse yourself was essential. There weren't many shipping lines that carried passengers when I went and I don't think any do now due to security issues.

Good afternoon to all-
My wife and I have been on a few cruises, and despite my best efforts to hate the whole thing, most of them were quite pleasant. Of course, since we don't socialize with the other folks aboard, and since we don't go to the school-style free-range eating parts, and since we certainly don't go to the casinos, cruises aren't too bad.
Mostly we sit either on deck or on the room's balcony and watch the water go by. We've seen lots of birds, lots of tuna, lots of dolphin fish chasing flying fish, sea turtles, whales, and other big ships on the Gulf. We don't expect any kind of entertainment from the ship, and we avoid other folks so cruises aren't too bad.
If we HAD to interact with the other cruisers- and let's be honest, many of them are yahoos to the bone- and do the casino and floor shows and other "entertainment" onboard, it would be hellish. It all comes down to what a person wants to do and see, and what a person prefers to avoid and overlook.
Cruises are much like many other parts of life these days, I find.
good day to all- Ed