It’s about this time every year that regret starts setting in – why did we not book a Christmas cruise? Why, oh why, did we not plan to escape the madness this year? Why aren’t we packing our bags and getting ready to enjoy sumptuous 5-course meals with no cooking and no washing up?
Alas, if you are destined for another year of fighting the shopping mall chaos, of listening to over-sugared children bickering over the last candy cane and Uncle George keeping the household awake with drunken snores… fear not. There is always next year!
You don’t have to leave the family behind to spend Christmas at sea. Bring them with you, but picture this! You don’t have to share the bathroom and you can each have you own private sanctuary where you can escape when your social battery runs down. You can meet for breakfast but no one has to get stuck in the kitchen frying two dozen eggs and thirty rashers of bacon.
You can enjoy pre-dinner cocktails without worrying about who is going to drive home and on Christmas Day, you can all sit down to a beautiful chef-prepared meal with everyone relaxed and enjoying themselves.
You might choose a tropical cruise to the islands where you can spend Christmas Day beneath the palm trees, or you might head to the Northern Hemisphere to experience the quintessential White Christmas complete with snow, fairy lights, ice skating, mulled wine or hot chocolate.
Now is a great time to get some options together, find out about group deals and prices for your family dynamics. Then float the idea while you’re all together over Christmas. It gives everyone a year to save and it will create incredible family memories together. It may also just save your sanity next Christmas!
