As holidays go, cruising has to be up there as one of the most relaxing and enjoyable ways to travel. I don’t know what it is, but there is just something about boarding a cruise ship that instantly makes all the worries in life drop away.
It could be the great value fares that include just about everything you need, from main meals to entertainment, activities, accommodation and access to exciting destinations. Perhaps it’s the facilities onboard these floating hotels that take you from island to island or city to city without the need to mess with train or bus schedules or to lug your suitcases around from hotel to hotel. In fact, once you arrive and unpack everything else is taken care of for you, and your hotel literally moves with you from destination to destination.
Over the years I’ve been on quite a few cruises, both ocean-going voyages on large cruise liners and smaller European river cruises on boutique riverboats, and not once have I been disappointed.
Given our location in the world, for many Australian’s their first exposure to the world of cruising is a South Pacific Ocean cruise, and why not, there are plenty of different cruise options and destinations to pick from. Starting from short four-night getaways to a single Pacific island destination, to epic sixteen-night adventures that will take you to more beautiful island destinations than you can count on two hands.
I took my family on our first South Pacific Cruise almost eight years ago, a short seven-night holiday that visited ports in New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu and my wife and kids still talk about all the fun we had.
