by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com
I think there are a lot of RVers who also take cruising vacations. Cruising is very much like RVing in that you don’t have to check in and out of a room for every destination. You keep your stuff all in one room, yet you travel to multiple locations. Then there’s the food. Sure wish I could have that available when we’re RVing!
The primary reason I love RVing is the complete freedom and independence of going wherever we want to go, whenever we want to go there.
Although that does not describe cruising, I find cruising to be a nice change of pace where I don’t have any decisions to make. We took a short, weekend cruise to the Bahamas this past weekend with the whole family. Six of us. It’s a great way to spend time together and be sure that everyone is comfortable. The only decision I had to make is what to eat!
I was also looking forward to staying connected while we were on the cruise ship. I could have sworn I saw, “Free Wi-Fi on board” in the promotional literature. As it turns out, I was only half right. There was Wi-Fi in the public areas, but it was not free.
$24/hour for Wi-Fi!
An I thought $10/day was high the last time I was in a hotel! It is amazing that they have an Internet connection at all way out at sea, but for that price I decided to leave my computer in my laptop bag! I can survive 4 days being disconnected, but not much more. We did find a free Wi-Fi hotspot at the Ferry terminal in Nassau so Jim used his new Droid phone to send a message to our blog letting people know that we were out of touch.
How about you? Do you like cruising? How do you stay connected when you go to sea?