Getting on a boat - all inclusive - just to get away for a week....fine. Simple. Stay on the boat and enjoy the open 100 mile gaze. Be that humble guy.
The 'cruisers' thinking they are exploring the world in a week are locusts. They disembark like conquerors....exploring a new land. - "why would I dine on an island when there is free food on the boat?" - "why is no one catering to my immediate needs?" - "I paid good money for the islanders to dance for me, what gives?"
The islanders get a kick on ripping the cattle off as much as possible. For example- going to get free conch shells from where the commercial guys dump them and selling them to the cattle for $40 each, or selling mini bottles of “island “rum for $20 - which they went and bought cheap assed rock gut rum and repackaged it to resell at a 1000% markup...
Damned near every restaurant/bar/attraction has a locals price and a tourist price. Spending time on a few of the islands while working gives you an interesting perspective of how ridiculous 90% of the idiots coming off cruise ships really are.
Walking caricatures.
One nice thing about being a tourist on many of the islands is that you can get away with damned near anything. The local governments don’t want to be seen as harassing them unnecessarily. Rent a car and can drive around completely hammered...drugs, hookers, etc...
anybody wanting to ride a boat out in the open ocean should take a job on a fishing vessel. you get paid big bucks and you can see more than enough blue desert to last a lifetime.
cruise ship passengers deserve to be stuck in their own shit.
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