Cruise lines

[BIGNASTY]

Looking at booking a Cruise for a vacation, whats your choice of Cruise lines and why? Personal experience is always a +

Im a germ-a-phobe so this is a very hard vacation idea by the better half


BIG

 

[jclark5810]

We cruise exclusively on Royal Caribbean. The ship has always been spotless, great customer service, and phenomenal food. You're going to spend 6+ nights on a boat, don't try to go cheap. I've been on two and the wife and her family have been on about 10, all with RC.

 

[jgillott]

Good friends of ours went on a Disney cruise to Alaska last summer. Had an absolute blast even without young kids.

 

[CBari]

When I was working in St. Kitts I had direct on board experience weekly with three different lines.

The best one and always the cleanest and best food when I went aboard was the Aida. It how ever was a German line and usually all European guest.

The Princess line ships that we dealt with were always good and acceptable to my standards.

The carnival ships that we dealt with were ok not my pick of the ones I interacted with.

I would say it is a crap shoot on the germ issue with any of them if one person gets sick or brings a bug on board it is going to run through the vessel just like it does in any confined area with high population density.

Personal opinion is that there are less bugs going around in the warmer months. May not be when you are wanting a vacation though. If warm weather is your desire plus water and sand I would recommend Bonaire as pretty good place to go spend a week. Food is good, diving is great beaches are that great but they aren't crowded either.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I would say it is a crap shoot on the germ issue with any of them if one person gets sick or brings a bug on board it is going to run through the vessel just like it does in any confined area with high population density.

Personal opinion is that there are less bugs going around in the warmer months. May not be when you are wanting a vacation though. If warm weather is your desire plus water and sand I would recommend Bonaire as pretty good place to go spend a week. Food is good, diving is great beaches are that great but they aren't crowded either.

Im with you CBari, I will take my chances ON LAND, every time you turn around one of the cruise ships are having problems with a big case of the Hershey Squirts, not my idea of Vacation Fun taking turns sitting on the can in you stateroom :-laf



This is just about as strenuous as I want to get on a Vacation, but the wife has other ideas

 

[jclark5810]

I usually like to keep a B.A.C of no less than about .10 the entire cruise, that keeps whatever bacteria that is floating around at bay :-laf

 

[jgillott]

I usually like to keep a B.A.C of no less than about .10 the entire cruise, that keeps whatever bacteria that is floating around at bay :-laf

That's about how I like to vacation......Oo.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I usually like to keep a B.A.C of no less than about .10 the entire cruise, that keeps whatever bacteria that is floating around at bay :-laf

That's the germaphobe in me, I found out LONG AGO that people are the most disgusting creatures on the planet, we went to San Diego Zoo when we were in Calif just last month, we went to the monkey cage, I get a kick out of the monkeys. I told the young man that was with us (12 years old ) to not hang on to the rails around the monkey cage. He asked why? he came and took a handy wipe we gave him to clean his hands before he touched anything, and he laughed about the monkeys picking their butts, I told Danny to look around and tell me that Man has progressed that much that he should be out of the cage, I pointed to people that were picking their pants out of their butts and then holding the railing and eating!!!! Yaaaaaaaa I want to go on a boat that 3,000 other Primates are living on :-laf

 

[Wayne M.]

Just heard on the news that theyre going to crack down on the sanitary issues on the ships. Ive never been on a cruise but ive seen plenty when I worked on the Hudson river. Some look like floating cities. I did witness the maiden voyage of the queen mary 2 when it came to NY.
Knowing how Disney operates, I would consider going out with them. My Wifes Aunt was on the Dawn on that famous trip where it got caught in a storm out near Bermuda.

 

[fest3er]

Im with you CBari, I will take my chances ON LAND, every time you turn around one of the cruise ships are having problems with a big case of the Hershey Squirts, not my idea of Vacation Fun taking turns sitting on the can in you stateroom :-laf

Eat active culture yogurt; it floods the system with good bacteria dwarfing the bad bacteria (which is the normal, natural state of the system), works pretty darn quickly, and is a cheap preventative and cheap first remedy. Vinegar (as in balsamic vinegar and olive oil on salad) helps keep the system's acidity up.

 

[Simplysmn]

Royal Caribbean is who we are useing for the Alaska Cruise we are going on this Sept so far we have 23 Family Member's going it's going to be a Blast.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Eat active culture yogurt; it floods the system with good bacteria dwarfing the bad bacteria (which is the normal, natural state of the system), works pretty darn quickly, and is a cheap preventative and cheap first remedy. Vinegar (as in balsamic vinegar and olive oil on salad) helps keep the system's acidity up.

Mr fest3er
Lactobaccilus Acidophilus, Lactobacillus Rhamnosus, Bifidobacterium Animalis, Bacillus Coagulans have been friends of the wife and I since she got on to the Organic Band Wagon many years ago, Most of the raw dairy products that our Cow and Goats produce is loaded with the Good Bacteria, sometimes Penny has to heat things to make some of the things we consume so that process kills pretty much everything in them, but then again so does the pasteurization of so many things that are commercially made.

Didn't know that about the salad dressing mixture helping though!!

Royal Caribbean is who we are useing for the Alaska Cruise we are going on this Sept so far we have 23 Family Member's going it's going to be a Blast.

Penny's sister and BIL just came back from AK on a cruise, I think that's what got her panties in a bunch to go on a one!!

 

[Jim W]

My wife and I have cruised on two different cruise lines. The first was Carnival cruise lines when we were in a re thirties. These are usually party ships and full of younger adults; food was OK but at the time there was no open dinning allowed. The crew officers seam to intermingle a lot with the passengers mainly with the signal younger ladies on the ship.

The other two cruises were on the Princess Line one to the Caribbean and the other one to Alaska last summer. These seam to cater more to the middle age passengers than the younger crowd less children running around the ships. More ship board actives for the middle age passengers to do also. There were placed around the ship several hand sanitizers for you and other passengers to clean your hands before entering the dining rooms and at the boarding stations. My wife loved that she was always cleaning her hands.

I myself do not like them that much; I think this can be overdone and you can kill off the health germs that we need to live with. I also drank out of a garden hose growing up as a kid. I was also a boy scout and a explore who did a lot of outdoor camping in the 60’s. Dug a pit-toilet when we needed to and that was that.


Jim W.

 

[JR]

We went on a Carnival cruise several years ago. We didnt have any bad experiences with them, service was OK, food was OK. I wouldn't rate it as one of my favorite vacations. There is only so much you can do on a boat, and when they let you off to go explore you have just about enough time to skim the surface of where ever your at and then it's back on the boat to the next destination. I knew before hand it wasn't going to be my cup of tea but had to humor the wife. After our first stop she was on board with me. We are more of the explorer type, get off the beaten path and end up where ever our travels may take us. You can't do that on a cruise ship. We had fun and it was a good experience over all but we have no plans of doing another anytime soon.

 

[CBari]

As far as good bacteria go this is one of the best and easiest ways to up the good count. http://www.florajen.com/products-florajen3.shtml We have been carrying and I have been using this product for over 10 years in our Pharmacies.

 

[BIGNASTY]

As far as good bacteria go this is one of the best and easiest ways to up the good count. http://www.florajen.com/products-florajen3.shtml We have been carrying and I have been using this product for over 10 years in our Pharmacies.

CB
I think that we can go into this and not get into a shouting match so to speak, the product that you linked to may or may not work, if you find it works for you that's all that matters. Penny is so much more into this I wish she was here because she is the one in our Tribe that has the scoop as WE know it, not that hers is the only thinking that matters its just what we have been doing for many of our years together.

Now that the apologies are over for stepping on toes, there are a couple of different trains of thought on Probiotics which is what we are talking about here, there are many good stains of bacteria that when live can solve many problems, I have the need for an anti inflammatory with my Osteoarthritis that most all of us have in some degree its part of getting old and getting used up. Im prescribed Motrin to help me out by Doctors, I don't like taking them (I can take 2400 milligrams a day) they were eating a big hole in my gut whether or not I take them with food.

When I started eating what Penny put in front of me after we got married, I felt alot better and found that I didn't need as many in my everyday life. She clued me in on her thinking about the good bacteria, Personally I didn't care she was easy to look at, if it made her feel better about how she was taking care of me, it was good with me. But I began to believe that she was on to something, and Billy-be-damned I have found that it works!!! at least for us.

Where this is leading is that in her thinking and many others that know what is going on ??? THIS IS ONLY SUBJECTIVE!!! how can a live bacteria that is good for you when live in your gut, be put in a pill by any method and then when its taken suddenly become live AGAIN!! There has been many sides to this and most are way beyond anything that I care to spend time on filling my head with what amounts to a waste of my limited brain space anyway. Before we had a place and time to raise a cow and goats to get our live bacteria (where we get it now) we use to get our Probiotics in a liquid form from a very specialized manufacture of pharmaceutical products. And at one time Alta Dena Dairy in Calif use to sell raw milk that we drank and she made things with. They also had other products that were made with raw dairy.

Its true that a person can get the good bacteria from yogurt you get in the store but it has very little of only a certain kind left in it because of the laws about Pasteurization that are put out by the FDA (another whole argument) With the raw dairy we (According to Penny) get all of the good ones and maybe even a bad one or two but will be taken care of by our better good bacteria and better immune systems. A person has to be pretty careful about how raw dairy is handled or getting a case of the squirts will be the LEAST of your concerns. But so far so good for something like 30 years.


BIG

 

[BIGNASTY]

Double post wish the satellite could be fixed by eating something so it wouldn't do this

 

[CBari]

Big I agree with what you said as most products are degraded, however the product that I mentioned uses billions of live bacteria poured in to a simple gelatin capsules and is refrigerated to keep the bacteria alive. It isn't as good as raw milk i.e. unpasteurized products but it is much better than lots of the other commercial probiotic products out there.

PS my toes are fine no need to worry I step on them all the time. Guess it is a side effect from having two left feet.

 

[BIGNASTY]

CB

I stand corrected I thought that I read that it was a freeze dried product. Got anything that can help eyesight?

 

[GCroyle]

BIG,

How do they load the Mules? And how much sun block does an average Mule need to cover its U No What!

They need a break once in a while too.

Gary