Watching the Titanic again and again will make one think that being on a luxury boat is something that not many people will have a chance to experience. Apart from the extraordinary cost that would prevent many people from considering a cruise seriously, is also the posh lifestyle associated with it that would put many people off. Everyone seemed to be dressed up in such a formal way as if they had to attend a wedding or an interview!
What is wrong though, is that in most of those films the boats were not actually cruise boats. In Titanic, for instance, the vast majority of the people was trying to get into the United States to start a new file and just a few handful of people got into it for recreation purposes. During those times people were using boats in order to cover huge distances as planes were not that publicly available yet. The modern equivalent of the titanic would be a super luxurious airplane where people would fly from London to Sydney nonstop.
The reason why I make all those arguments is because I want to stress that the vast majority of people have a completely wrong idea about the kind of people that would take up a cruise. There are so many different types of cruises available ranging from very expensive to affordable ones.
Cunard cruises start from around £350 for a 2 day trip from Hamburg to Southampton on Queen Elizabeth 2. A 2 day trip to Paris would cost pretty much the same. Oceania cruises and Silversea cruises in a similar manner offer affordable cruises for those on lower incomes.
It is true that luxury cruises are mainly for the middle-aged and pensioners but it is wrong to believe that they are exclusively for them. However, if anyone would like to get a glimpse of how such a cruise feels like, that would still be possible. The vast majority of people who have actually tried it claim that it was one of the bets experiences ever!
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