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Panama Canal Cruise: planning tips for gay cruise passengers
A gay friend just asked me for suggestions on upcoming Panama Canal cruises. If you’ve followed this blog, you should
You can actually touch the side of the Panama Canal from your cruise ship, as my partner Kevin is doing.
know that both my partner and I consider our 2005/06 canal cruise aboard Royal Caribbean’s Legend of the Seas our best-ever vacation, for many reasons.
Perhaps the biggest reason was the many gay men we met on board — about 40 of them, mostly couples — some of whom we had “pre-met” through Internet searches… long before MeetMeOnBoard.com was born. Many of us dined together each night in 4s and 6s, but still at larger tables with straight passengers… it was a BLAST. (We’re still friends with many of them, and still travel to see each other).
The gays also took shore excursions together, including one that I had pre-arranged privately — a really remarkable zipline experience in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Check it out in the list below.
Anyway… I could go on and on about what a great cruise it was. But I suggest you go book your own! Here are a handful of tips for that trip:
Ziplining in Costa Rica is a great
- Do a full-transit sailing, not a partial.
- Go east to west (start in Florida, end in California) so you’re always adding hours to the clock.
- Stay on the ship through the entire canal–that’s what you’ve paid to experience. Guests who get off at/in the canal to do shore excursions miss the complete wow of having sailed between the two oceans.
- If your ship stops in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, arrange privately for a full-day zipline & waterfall tour with http://www.finca-daniel.de/
- If you stop in Acapulco, you MUST see the cliff divers show.
Bon voyage! Randall
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Randall Shirley
Super cheap cruise fares … check out this repositioning in April, then find gay cruisers!
The silly recession (who started it, anyway?) is paying off hugely for those who are able to travel. Cruise discounts are everywhere. Among the best discounts to his my inbox lately is:
14 nights, Fort Lauderdale to London (Southhampton), inside cabin for $479. Some travel agents are even discounting it to $399. Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas is the ship.
Royal Caribbean Repositioning -- amazing cruise bargains
$399…are they out of their minds? Well, probably not. What the cruise lines are out of is moneyed passengers.
While I realize that many GLBT travelers are seriously affected by the recession, I can’t help but suggest to those who can afford it that this is, perhaps, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grab dream cruises at ultra-deep discounts.
So go book this or any cruise. Call your friends and get them to go, too. Then post it to your MeetMeOnBoard.com profiles, make new friends, and sail away at phenomanlly low prices.
Happy Cruising,
Randall
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Rich 3:28 pm on February 12, 2009 Permalink |
Yes, I have also found some incredible deals out there also. I’ve never been on Carnival Cruise Line but saw a $500 cruise for 8-days out of San Diego to Mexico. What I really liked about the itinerary are the ‘days at sea’ and the overnight in Acapulco. As a gay man, Acapulco is the Rio of Mexico. My friends and I might give this cruise a try. The price is too good to pass up.
John B 9:35 am on April 21, 2012 Permalink |
Celebrity and Royal Caribbean have some really good prices on their European cruises with airfare. They are even better if you have been a past cruiser with them.