Do you go for quantity of cruises or length?

After I became addicted, I began taking any cruise I could from 4 days to my upcoming 24 days in the Caribbean. I'm doing 2 ten day and 1 four day cruise on the Royal Princess - Southeastern Medley and Eastern Medley. I will see different islands on all cruises. I chose to do the back to back to eliminate the cost of airfare to ft lauderdale (yeah, bad excuse) and not having to change rooms. I am retired so time is plentiful.

I still struggle with the time between cruises lol. I prefer the length, as it sounds most do, for pleasure reasons as well as working constrictions, but the wait killllssss me

Each time I cruise, it involves a day's drive and a hotel before the cruise (Galveston) or three day's drive and hotels (Florida) or airfare and a hotel (Seattle). Several short cruises would get expensive quickly, therefore I favor the longer itineraries fewer times a year (which makes it difficult to get status on Princess)

Length of cruise. I have to work and so I usually take about 10 days off. 7 for the cruise and 2 days in a hotel prior and 1 day before I go back to work.

We have to fly from western Canada to vacation in our preferred month of March, combining a land vacation with a cruise. We've done 2-4 day cruises an 2-7 day cruises, with a 8 day coming up in 2017. I think 7 days is a perfect length for me and then we have another 5 days on land to travel to whichever part of Florida or California that we want to see. The 4 day cruises were just too short.

We started cruising with short cruises, but figured that the air fare was so much we should take longer ones. We had a friend that really wanted us to cruise with them on a 4 day trip they had won, November 2014...so we did, but we booked a follow on 7 day on another ship that sail from the same port. So at least 7 days...we have our first 15 days this December. I'll let you know how that goes. Yes, we are retired, but we saved money so we could really enjoy retirement.

Lucky!!!! Baltimore is near us, but there are 2 ships... Pride (Carnicval, always a week) and Grandeur (RCI, and it alternates 5 day and 9 day). Sometimes I wish there were some 3 days, just to get away.

We do both, as we live 30 minutes from Galveston. Get the itch, we go . Don't matter what length of cruise, we just like to go, been to progresso and cozumel 10 times and counting

I live in Ohio. So, it is not a short drive or trip to any cruise port.

So, 7 days tends to be my minimum length for me to consider.

I have done a 7 day and 9 day with my wife. We now have a 12 day booked on Anthem of the Seas in January 2018.

I don't have anything against a 3-5 day cruise. If I lived near a cruise port, I would use them as weekend trips or mini vacations. But, when I factor in having to make flight and hotel accommodations, it just gets too expensive in the per day cost compared to a longer cruise.

I also travel when pricing is low and will book a 9 day vs a 7 day if the price is similar.

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