RE: Cruise ships, some have clothing optional decks.

You might want to look into a non-US based cruise line. AIDA (www.aida.de/) has nude decks on their ships. When we were in the Bahamas on a Disney cruise, an AIDA ship docked next to us. You could clearly see nude people on their top deck from the much taller Disney ship.
AIDA has several cruises that originate in US ports.

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RE: Cruise ships, some have clothing optional decks.

You might want to look into a non-US based cruise line. AIDA (www.aida.de/) has nude decks on their ships. When we were in the Bahamas on a Disney cruise, an AIDA ship docked next to us. You could clearly see nude people on their top deck from the much taller Disney ship.AIDA has several cruises that originate in US ports.This just came up on Cruise Critic! AIDA is a German cruise line (although owned by Carnival), so all announcements will be in German. Most crew members know English, but fellow cruisers may not. If you don't know German, you may feel like an outsider among other passengers. CC members say they don't have a regular dining room like American ships so it is buffet or specialty restaurants, but the buffets are more upscale than on American ships. If we spoke German we would probably try them out, but since we don't we won't.

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When we were on the 2015 Nude Cruise we heard it said from a couple different people. " We have been on Nude Cruises before and then we booked a normal cruise, What were we thinking!?"
It was right then I knew if we ever get the chance to take another cruise it will most certainly be on a nude boat.

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When we were on the 2015 Nude Cruise we heard it said from a couple different people. " We have been on Nude Cruises before and then we booked a normal cruise, What were we thinking!?" It was right then I knew if we ever get the chance to take another cruise it will most certainly be on a nude boat.Thinking back to several cruises where we have stopped in St. Martin and dinner mates asking if we knew there was a nude beach there. Would love to do that again some time and say "sure, that's where we are heading for the day... want to join us?" Then talk about Club Orient and Bare Necessities. We would either have someone to join us at Orient Beach, or never see them again at dinner!
Rockdad, too bad we didn't get a chance to meet during the cruise. When the cruise ended we realized we never went around to meet the other TN members. Now that they have finally announced the the new cruise, we are signed up for 2017.

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Rockdad, too bad we didn't get a chance to meet during the cruise. When the cruise ended we realized we never went around to meet the other TN members. Now that they have finally announced the the new cruise, we are signed up for 2017.We met a couple TN people on the ship which was pretty cool. We are tossing around the 2016 Nude Cruise.

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We met a couple TN people on the ship which was pretty cool. We are tossing around the 2016 Nude Cruise.Carolinanudists came down to meet us and we met dennis1953 at the saunas upstairs, but we never printed out the list of rooms to go meet others (kind of a rookie mistake, since we started the group for that cruise). We also already knew marc-susan from the 2013 cruise.
We are booked for 2017. If they do cabin upgrades for 2016 we might look at what gets put back into the system for interior cabins. Otherwise we will try starting a group for the 2017 cruise and see if we remember to bring the cabin list with us this time!

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Well sign me up for the rook move as well because I didn't print a list off and bring it either. Derrrr

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Cost is always important, as is a good time, great food and nice people. I would live to give it a try! Nude cursing sounds great! The- Natural- One

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Cost is always important, as is a good time, great food and nice people. I would live to give it a try! Nude cursing sounds great! The- Natural- OneNude cruises cost more, but not that much more, when you consider they are usually slightly longer cruises (9 nights instead of at least our usual of 7) and go on different itineraries than the regular route for the particular ship being chartered. There are ways to mitigate cost, like accepting an inside cabin when you would usually take a balcony or not paying for any dry-cleaning while on the cruise since you aren't wearing any clothes!
You will certainly meet a much higher percentage of happy people who are willing to go with the flow of the cruise rather than complain about everything. Most of the nude cursing is confined to the casino after losing particularly large bets, though! ;)

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I don't see any singles in this thread. Are the nude cruises usually for couples only? And if they're for everyone, is there any attempt at gender balance among singles? Upon asking that question, it has just occurred to me that with today's emergence of gay and lesbian couples, the goal of gender balance may be taking on a whole new set of challenges. Anyhow, as a currently single, permanently straight guy, I was just wondering if I would be cruising with a boat load (pun intended) of other single guys.

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