{"id":3698,"date":"2014-11-01T21:43:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2015-03-16T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:29:42","slug":"cruising-across-pacific-find-cheap-cruise-14-days-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/cruising-across-pacific-find-cheap-cruise-14-days-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"At Sea; A Budget Cruise Across the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"
As I’ve hinted in previous posts, Tom and I found a rather unique (for us) way to travel back to the Americas from Asia, via a cruise ship!<\/p>\n
We have learned time and time again, experiences are shaped by expectations. With that in mind, we were really setting ourselves up for success when we started reading the reviews of the boat we were about to embark on just two days before we were set to sail. “Well let’s put it this way,” Tom said grimly into the darkness as we were both trying to fall asleep “would I choose to have booked the cruise after reading those reviews – no. But, there’s nothing we can do about it now.” <\/p>\n
We had just finished reading pages and pages of tales of sickness, rude staff, and awful food aboard a glorified trash barge. We had not done a lot of initial research past the price. I mean, a two-week cruise across the pacific ocean for the same price as a plane ride across the same distance, what else could we possibly need to know? <\/p>\n
Three weeks earlier while cruising (pun intended) a cruise deal site I found this trip slashed to $700\/person and had bought it immediately. After reading all of the horrible reviews of the Celebrity Millennium we found online, we had to remind ourselves again and again why we were doing this. How the money we normally would just throw at a plane for transport was going to be spent on an entirely new experience.<\/p>\n