It's true that the Caribbean is still the No. 1 cruise destination in the world. Three hundred appraisals were done in three hours. This year I will take my 53rd cruise. I've spent my children's inheritance on sea time. Ships have one thing I can't get in real life someone to wait on me hand and foot.
Every passenger gets the royal treatment on a ship, no extra charge.
By Linda Matchan, The Boston Globe Seven million people take cruise vacations every year. I was a cruise virgin. But not anymore. I lost my innocence, so to speak, over the winter, when my mother invited my two sisters and me on a weeklong Caribbean cruise. There are more than 1,000 online Web sites, news groups, e-mail lists and chat rooms that focus on cruising and ships.