We have friends who take the same 2 cruises year after year.

Cruising is an option to reach many beautiful & interesting destinations. I just read a comment from a poster who has cruised to Bermuda 10 times. I've been to Bermuda (by air) twice and while it's a beautiful island, I don't plan to go back. I've seen it all and want to explore other places.

So those of you who keep going back to the same places - why?

Why do you want to know??

Suerich

Have you only had steak or lobster once in your life ?

Probably for the same reason that some people buy time-shares, etc. There's just something they find enjoyable about them and just like anything else we enjoy, we tend to repeat it (like the lobster comment).

As a psychologist, I also see many people who like the "comfort of the known" more than the "discomfort of change".

I guess "to each his own" and it's nice to know that you enjoy adventure and change. Happy cruising

I think it was Holiday Inn who had a slogan some years agoquot;The Best Surprise is No Surprise at All"....I run into a LOT of travellers with this attitude...

Many people are afraid to fly or don't want to deal with the hassle and take any cruise out of their home port even if it's a repeat. We took 3 cruises to Bermuda and 3 to Nova Scotia out of New York, but over the past few years, we've expanded our horizons.

GUILTY, we've taken the Majesty to Bermuda ten times (we have taken other cruises)because there are parts if Bermuda we are still discovering.. Most cruises only stay in the port one day.. hardy enough time to discover a country or port.. Also being from Boston going on a cruise ship either to Bermuda or Canada.. we drive to the port which is 35 minutes tops, park the car after having the car unloaded by FRIENDLY longshoremen compaed to Miami... and we are on vacation... No long flights, no getting up to get a flight at 7:00 a.m. and getting home from the cruise at 8:00 p.m. ..Why the same two cruises.. I dont know....but on "our" ship, we love the crew, love the convenience.. it's like going to a hotel in Boston and ending up in Bermuda...Saturday night at the end of the cruise we go to bed and when we wake up we are in Boston and home by 10:30 the latest. "Homeland" cruising has become popular because...there are people who do not want to fly (we aren't those people),, they dont like the hassle and those others who just find it a convenient vacation... For our winter vacations the past few years we go to the D.R. and we have discovered a resort that we love..not glitzy, not huge..but comfortable and a feeling of being at home.. We are "white heads" and have traveled to Peru, Columbia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico, etc. and now we ae discovering cruising from Europe.. and hope to go back... There is a whole world out there.. you can't see it all at once.. but I certainly if I go back to Europe will see the places I've missed...

Timeshare is not what it use to be. You can have better lodging for the same money anywhere in the world...anytime!!!

As a child growing up in Colorado, each summer my grandfather insisted on returning to the same place in Rocky Mountain National Park for trout fishing every summer. When I returned to school and heard about the trips to Yellowstone, Carlsbad Caverns, Mesa Verde, etc. the others had taken, I wanted so badly to see some of those places instead of taking the same old trip summer after summer!

My husband and I travel a lot and we don't repeat trips over and over, although we do return to favorite places like Italy, London and here in California. However, we are taking a long-awaited Panama Canal cruise in November, and we will occupy the same stateroom on the same ship as we had on our Alaska cruise last year. Guess that's not quite the same as the above, but suppose it makes us "nesters" to a certain extent. We were comfortable on that ship, in that stateroom, so we wish to repeat that comfort!

I've been on a number of 7 day cruises. After awhile, it gets old. Expecially, when once we were out in the ocean looking out to the island that we had just come from. I would have rather been exploring the island that doing the same stuff gambling, seeing the show, going to the spa, eating, swimming in the pool, eating, playing the group games, eating... You get the idea?
After awhile, I felt very rushed to get back on the ship when we would stop on an island/port. I started to feel like I wasn't done on that island!!!, but I had to go...Had to!
The best cruise I went on was from Miami, staying in port overnight in Nassau, and going to the private island: Coco Cay (Royal Caribbean), and back to Miami. It was just enough on the ship, on an island, and a wonderful fun beach picnic and water sports on Coco Cay. It was so delightful I'd go again!
My husband has never been on a cruise, this is one I know he would enjoy, so I would go again for him!!

Well I'm on this thread now because I am taking a cruise in July but I go to a place twice a year not by cruising though. I have been going there since 1980 except for a 10 year spell 1987 - 1997. I have been there over 50 times already and I can't wait to get back. For me it has everything for a vacation, beautiful beaches, great restaurants, fantastic night life, friendly and beautiful people and generally just fun loving. Not very expensive even when the dollar is weak, when it is strong then it is even cheap. And I usually stay in the same place too now same apartment I rent on the same street with the same people and I can't wait to go back to Rio De Janiero.

What is the resort in the DR?

Some folks are retired or get a lot of vacation time so they can afford to/have the time visit the same destination more than once per year. Doesn't mean that all the people visiting a destination more than once per year aren't visiting other places as well

On the other side of the coin I have a friend that never ventures 3 hours from their home on vacation also, same spot each year, different strokes for different folks.

If your asking Parrot Mom which resorts she goes to in the D.R... its Sunscape Casa del Mar.. BTW people.. just booked thr 11th trip to B ermuda for September. WHY!!!! because I bought it on sale...a great location on the ship..and we don't have to fly anywhere, I can sit on the ship and be waited on, have our cabin cleaned, sit by the pool or in the jacuzzi for one week..and frnkly I'm exhausted and stressed out... I really do have six parrots, a dog, a beta fish and a husband that all needs attention...