Pushka
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IMO, you can get all the pros of a cruise by flying to an all inclusive resort, and then you don't have the cons (like tiny rooms, strict port visit schedules and inability to leave and go somewhere else). Do a day cruise if you need a water fix.
I get a lot of people like cruises because they don't have to organise anything and the company takes them to all the sights without any fuss.
That's not me, I'm an independent traveller, I don't like other people organising my itinerary. I don't do multi-day land cruises either; even an organised day tour is a stretch for me.
Well, not really all the pros covered there. With an AI resort that’s where you will stay. With cruises you visit multiple cities, places and countries without unpacking. If you find somewhere you’d like to spend longer then that’s a land trip. We did that with Santorini, and Croatia. I wanted to see the pyramids but that would never be a land trip for me, it was a simple day trip then on to the next fascination. You can still be an independent traveller and you don’t have to go the ships excursions. We had private excursions in Oman for 2 days - fabulous, then Jordan, Egypt for two days, and Israel for 2 days. We only did one ship excursion in 21 days and that’s because private vendors couldn’t do it.
I presume rebuttal is allowed? Well, for most I expect.