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The Elvis impersonators, Vegas revues, beauty/dance/exercise seminars that just try to extract more cash from you, bad comedians, shlock art sales, kareoke, and bingo. The same Caribbean island tourist traps all over again; how boring.
I have previously posted in jest prostitution and marijuana theme cruises.
Serious ideas were a 'high culture' art/music/theatre/dance/literature cruise. Barryboat suggested an ocean going B & B
When I sailed the Stella Oceanis, the cruise was geared to physicians and attorneys and had one lecture a day for 2 hours.
If you could choose or orchestrate a theme for a cruise what would it be?
any thoughts?
[ 05-01-2001: Message edited by: desirod6 ]
With that said - wouldn't a DISCO cruise be kinda fun...or even a Game Show cruise - hehehe - THE WEAKEST LINK!
I would also love to see a Dog Show cruise on QE2 or QM2 - that would be interesting.
Just a couple of fun thoughts
My other idea would be to have an Adults only cruise. Not that I have anything against children but it would be nice to have a ship where no one had to worry about rowdy teens and unruly tots.
I think a cruise for people who are afraid of the water would be interesting. Water phobias.
A time travel themed cruise would be fun. Ok imaging that all the crew, officers and staff are in on it. Passengers are told that this is a cruise with unexpected and unannounced ports. (NCL did this once or twice, I wonder how it went over?) The twist would be a cool, fog, laser-light show here the ship traveling at speed at night, cruises through a portal set up in the ocean between bouyes. Once through the portal, the passengers are informed that the ship has passed through an unexpected anomaly. The next morning passengers are awaken with an announcement that there is an old pirate ship off the port bow, and that in middle of the night the officer on duty on the bridge stopped the ship to investigate a possible ship in distress. When the ship stopped, Pirates boarded the ship and are now wanting to take the passengers hostage on a remote island. The pirate ship (an old sail ship) even shoots off a few cannons. The dramma unfolds as the passengers are told to do as they are told quietly and orderly. Passengers are taken to a seemingly remote island made up like it was the 1600's, with every attention to detail made with precision, with the actors, and the pirate city. Passengers are told by the officers that they have lost radio and satellite contact with modern civilization. Finally, some of the waiters from the ship gang together and defeat the pirates, rescuing the passengers and bringing them back to the ship. That night the ship passes through another anomoly and the next day the ship is in Future world, or a Jurassic park, or a town right out of the 50's. The ultimate themed cruise...not just planned onboard the ship, but a whole theme-park island hopping, time-travel adventure!
From the mind of Barryboat
quote:Originally posted by desirod6:Oceanliner enthusiast
That would be my ideal cruise too, Desirod...a cruise for ocean liner nerds like myself. We could have a "Weakest Link" type of game show where all the questions would be on ocean liner/maritime history...I would probably beat all of you though...but it's okay, we could still be friends...
Companies like Disney have obviously made a lot of money selling a fantasy, but I am surprised that no one has taken it a step further. Has anyone seen the Sci-Fi classic movie "Westworld"? Now that's what I call a theme park! We don't need the robots, just some actors, sets, props and imagination!
A ship is the perfect vehicle on which to control the environment, yet exclude the outside world. To an extent Disney are in the lead with their themed ships, but it could be taken so much further.
I think that we will all be spending more of our hard earned money on "fantasies" in the future. After all, a vacation is essentially a 'fantasy', an escapism, in itself!
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