It is undeniable that luxury cruises have loyal fans and hateful enemies. What is fascinating though is that from the ones who claim they don’t like them, not many have actually tried to experience one. Many claim that luxury cruises are obsolete and they appeal just to old people just because it all started in the early days of the 20th century. The Britannic and Titanic are two of the big names but mainly because they were sunk. Most of them had a tragic end and that is that thrilled many people and made those boats mythical.

Watching the Titanic when I was still a teenager I was amazed by the size, wealth and all that incredible amount of money spent for the construction of a luxurious boat, which was meant to be unsinkable. My relatives who had immigrated to the United States were visiting us in England almost every summer, always in a cruise as they didn’t want to risk getting in a plane. They seemed to enjoy it so much talking about those cruises that we didn’t have much chance to interrupt them and talk about our things.

One of the main reasons that many people find luxury cruises so appealing is the degree they are associated to pure romance. The Hollywood films with all their exaggeration and focus on extreme wealth have definitely had a massive impact on people’s perceptions of luxury cruises. At the same time I knew that my budget wouldn’t make it very possible to try any of those 5 star cruises my relatives were talking about. Sometimes they were even talking about those amazing Silversea cruises or those Oceania cruises that it became one of my dreams into the child’s mind.

My mind changed completely after I had the chance to experience one cruise with my family. It didn’t stop there though and since then I’ve been in a cruise 3 more times.

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