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Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?
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Loser Araysar
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the trashiness of the cruise ship is intended. they consider whats in this photo a success
the Fyre fest clearly wasnt intended to be that. hence why its a disaster.
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There is your spec script right there. A group of Chick Hipsters sign up for a Fyre Festival and end up dropped off at a Gathering of the Juggalos. Think, Sex in the City meets Deliverance.
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You know what...We(meaning some other studio but we as in "Hollywood") have something similar in development. Buddy of mine is a DP on some high profile horror stuff and there are most certainly a few scripts floating around about "Young Pretty Millennials thinking they are going to Coachella and instead end up at RapeFest2018 in the AZ desert." Hilarity ensues.
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No way. I have never had a bad experience on any of my cruises with my wife. Been on 3 now, all Royal Carribean international and have never had a bad experience. Great food (We do not do the buffet except for breakfast) great service, a good deal with the drink pass (We get fairly lit up on the cruise ship) and have a blast making friends with everyone. I took over a Billy Joel impersonator once due to Schooner Bar customers' request while the impersonator continued playing Piano and I took over the singing. Really good shows to see (A great comic or two, Saturday night Fever), watched the Super Bowl mocking Patriots fans until they had the last laugh and I ended up having to buy them all shots, from the private RCI beach of CoCoKay, seeing Belize, Roatan, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Cozumel, Bahamas.
If you are having a trashy vacation on a cruise ship, I highly suggest RCI instead of say, Carnival. I also highly suggest the cruise ship you take is in the Freedom Class or Above, as these ships are absolutely gorgeous. (Freedom of the seas, Anthem of the Seas, Liberty of the seas to name the 3 I have been on). Sorry for the slight derail but I have been on plenty of non-cruise vacations from Hawaii, Cabo, Playa Del Carmen, Out west in the Rockies, etc. and now heading for a tour of Europe for 16 days this summer. When I compare the others I have been on the only thing I managed to do was spend more money.
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Now we are brainstorming. Have the group of girls think they are going to a Festival in Dubai but are dropped into Raqqa. Get Segal , Stallone, Van Damme to play the Dads doing the Under Siege / Taken thing.
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Loser Araysar
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it has nothing to do with the cruise line. it has everything to do with the concept of a cruise vacation, the people you're sandwiched with on a tin can for a week: like patriots fans, billy joel impersonators, 5th rate comics, 80s bands that couldnt even sell out a theater during their heydays, guys in that MORC photo.
basically its a bunch of low grade bullshit used to fill up time and space to distract you from the fact that you basically got on a boat with a bunch of other knuckle draggers to do the exact same shit you do in your podunk town on an average weekend.
i'd rather pay a few hundred bucks extra, get on a plane and fly somewhere and explore on my own, instead of sitting on some giant cruiseship, allowed a couple of hours in this port town, a couple of hours in that one, all in the meanwhile being forced to co-exist with several thousand of same assholes for a week
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Stolen and already registered. Thanks babe! You guys are a treasure sometimes.
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Kiroy
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We have friends that go on cruises all the time. Boggles my fucking mind. Only way i'd go is if it was to the Galapagos or some such sciency type cruise.
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Loser Araysar
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a lot of the cruise ship clientele is people who dont/cant figure out how to travel on their own. the cruise ship is a guaranteed room, meal, safety, entertainment and some shitty sightseeing at a rock bottom price.
you couldnt even pay me to get on one voluntarily, it sounds like fucking hell.
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Kiroy
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Ya if we wanted something like that we'd just go to an all inclusive resort like sandals. We prefer driving around the country for our vacations though.
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I have never taken a cruise, but the one thing you hear everyone say is the food is always great. So if you want to spend your holiday laying around getting drunk and fat I can see the appeal. But I can do that at my house no need to hop on a boat.
Personally I like hitting Asian big cities and just walking around in weirdness. Culture shock is the best part of travelling.
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Lol well I can do both, and easily do both, and like both - and never had an issue.
I also don't book small rooms in steerage either. So maybe that has something to do with it.
Here is my last room on Liberty of the Seas.
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