Quote Originally Posted by darterkitfox View Post
If you pay more than $500 a person for a 7 day cruise, it is too much. Go to vacationstogo.com and check on their 90 day ticker. One example is a 5 day cruise to Mexico out of Mobile, Alabama for $309 a person. Of course most of them leave from Florida, but if you want to do a day or two in San Antonio, a ship leaves from Galveston. Everyone has their opinion on the best cruise line. I thought I would hate it my first time but ended up enjoying it. Just in case, you may want to go with the 4 or 5 day cruise to start and add a day at your embarkation port before hand. The richer people here at Geocaching Maine will recommend travel agents, and different types of vacations but I have never met anyone that could take a cheaper vacation than me. Two years ago when I still had a job, in one year I went to Seattle for $59 on JetBlue from Boston for each way, St Augustine, Florida, Las Vegas, Nevada where we stayed in a suite in the Palace Station Casino for $10 a night (internet special), a week in Mexico, and a one week cruise. Not bad for someone that only made $31,000 a year gross. Look around, deals are there.
Good stuff . . . honestly until a day or so ago I kind of thought (and still question) if a cruise would be my type of thing since my wife and I are not big drinkers/party animals (well I just look like a yeti), but based on some folks' opinions here and in talking with my brother-in-law I might reconsider . . . plus I didn't know that such a thing could be done so cheaply.

So does anyone have any opinions on the various cruise lines???

Oh yeah . . . DKFox . . . you're hired as my travel agent!