There is one important difference between this cruise and one scheduled earlier in the year - the price. In April, this cruise has a lower single supplement than a cruise taken later in the year. My feeling is that the cruise lines expect that both demand and capacity will increase sometime this summer, and that they will be able to charge more for the same cruise itineraries they are selling today.
I plan to do a quick run to Bermuda to get away from New York for a while. Unfortunately, I will likely not be able to take a cheaper cruise, as I expect to be working until my 65th birthday. So, it'll be something like this cruise I'll be taking later in the year - just before I take my Hawaiian cruise.
Once I finish my Hawaiian cruise, I'm looking at taking some (mostly) land based vacations where I can travel about as Marian - for purposes of seeing places I've never been, and not just for the purpose of going out and about as Marian. Since my niece now lives overseas with her husband, it'll be nice to see Great Britain (and Ireland) for the first time.
Will I have someone traveling with me? Maybe. It would have been nice for things to have worked out with one ex-girlfriend. Since they didn't, they freed me up to make different choices than I would have made if the relationship had survived. If I didn't screw things up with my former cruise partner, I'd never be thinking of taking a long vacation in Great Britain, returning home on the Queen Mary II. So, in a way, things may be working out for the best after all....
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