I've been watching one of the cable TV news channels, they've devoted a whole hour to Norwegian, and somebody answered the question: who is taking cruises?

The answer was: mostly newlywed and nearly dead.



Do you agree? Disagree?

Disagree - I started taking cruises in my 40s, I was married for 19 years before the first cruise. I've been on an average of 1 cruise a year for the past 12 years and see the entire age spectrum onboard. I've seen newlyweds, I've seen young couples with infants, with toddlers, etc. I've seen the so call Dinks, old folks, elderly and yes, the nearly dead. But each and every cruise on 6 different cruise lines has had the whole spectrum of ages onboard.

Disagree.

We're in our late 50s and cruised seven times between 1996 and 2006. We've seen cruisers of all ages, although we prefer a line with few, if any, children. Our first cruise was to celebrate my parents' 50th wedding anniversary; our little group ranged in age from 20 to 76.

While I would never restict our travel to just cruises, we like having a moving hotel, and the occasional sea day is a nice break for our feet from long days of sightseeing.

For those that might not know what Dinks stands for in boom_boom comments...

It means

"Duel Income No Kids"

I disgree also

Disagree mightily as I do not qualify for either category.

Upcoming one on 11-6 on MSC's Splendida in the Mediterrean.

I also disagree. NCL especially gets tons of families with kids, so I just don't see how anyone could come away from a show on that cruise line and think that the passengers are so limited.

I'm going to the Caribbean on a cruise (vacation, not work) in 2 weeks, and I'm in neither category.

Perhaps they should have said it was an ideal vacation for the "Newlyweds and Nearly deads" but the majority of the passengers are every age in between. I am certainly not a newlywed and thank goodness not nearly dead and have cruised over 50 times. No plans to stop either even when I get to that "nearly dead" stage.

All complaints should be sent to channel 59 Comcast in San Francisco

Okay.. is it allowed that we are active seniors who love to cruise and have been doing it for over 24 years.. We find cruising to be on the whole (esp. trans-atlantics) a great value and relaxing..Certainly there are others who might fall into the "almost dead", but they aren't the majority on our cruises..What we do find is guests who are able to take two weeks off to cruise back to the US.. many of who did a previous cruise(back to back). Europeans who cruise to the US for their winter vacations or trip to Disney with their families.. This upcoming cruise we will be doing NCL, but I don't expect a preponderance of kids..since it's the end of November. With the upcoming mega ships..Oasis and Epic among others...cruise ships have become floating resorts complete with ice skating rinks, bowling alleys, and rock climbing walls..I HATE IT... After all these years of traveling I want to be wined and dined as only they do on cruise ships..and frankly I don't want to hang around with the "nearly dead"...lol