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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an anti-cruise person. And for what its worth, also an anti multi family trip person.

I like just travelling with my immediate family. I don't enjoy trying to coordinate a huge group. I like hiking, I like cities, I like backpacking. You know what my extended family and DH's extended family hate? All those things. They're cruise and/or beach people. Fine. Good for them. Not our thing.

And, frankly, both my brother and DH's sister are selfish. obnoxious people married to equally selfish and obnoxious people, who constantly dump their kids on everyone else. It's not enjoyable.

I sucked it up and did a multi-generational beach trip last summer because that's what my dad wanted for his 75th birthday. Fortunately we all had our own rentals. By day 3, everyone, including my parents, were completely over my brother and his wife and their 8 children. Never again.[/quote]

+100 We went to a family destination wedding in a place that we had wanted to vacation at some point anyway. The location was pretty much ruined by having to deal with extended family for almost two weeks! Siblings and cousins dumping kids because ya know SAH mommies just never get a vacation like WOH mommies do. There were 2-3 hall monitors/cruise director types constantly battling each other and trying to schedule everyone all the time. It was very difficult to break away as you couldn’t announce that just you, your spouse and kids were going to skip and go do something else. This was a beacon for the most annoying moochers to squeal oh goody goody I’ve always wanted to go do that, park there butt in our car and of course expect that we treat and pay for them. You couldn’t say you all needed some rest and were staying in because this was a beacon for the SAH mommies to dump their brood of poorly behaved kids on you to watch since you weren’t doing anything. There were the boomers constantly trying to give preschoolers sips of alcoholic cocktails. Boomers controlling every restaurant and meal..of course others paying.so it was an expensive and flavorless trip.

If it had been a cruise, DH and I would have jumped overboard.[/quote]

OP's question is "can a cruise family and a non-cruise family ever happily vacation together?"  It sounds like your family isn't ever going to be able to vacation happily together.  The cruise thing isn't the reason why.
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