Do you like to cruise? New online resource for cruise fans!

People who know my wife Christine and I know that we are huge cruise fans. We have been married for almost 6 years and have had the chance to take two cruises. Our first was our honeymoon in 2002 and was quite a whirlwind, as you can imagine. Our second was when our son was almost 2 years old and was something that we had planned for a long time in advance. We were lucky enough to be taken by my parents with the whole family.

Being the geek that I am, I do a lot of research online. So off I went looking around and stumbled upon CruiseCritic. At the time it was laid out as most sites were and offered some very good information. Today it still looks quite similar (a little outdated) but still has a ton of content. I would recommend anyone to head on over to the forum and chat it up. There are thousands of cruisers in there who are very passionate about their pastime and love to offer their knowledge and opinions on almost anything relating to a cruise vacation.

A new site, and what sparked this article has popped up on the scene. socruise is a new website billing themselves as “your social cruise community”. It seems like they are trying to bring cruisers closer together on the ship as well as on the website. I am curious to see how it will stack up to CruiseCritic however; as they have been around a long time. One of CruiseCritic’s forum sections has over 200 000 threads and over 3.17 million posts. That’s an astronomical number of people posting and it will be hard for any site to chip away at that.

Still, there is another angle to this. I am tempted myself to start posting on socruise none the less. I have a strange feeling that once the core group of posters at CruiseCritic gets wind of socruise, they will bring people over and most will participate in both groups.

Something else to note, given this is a geek blog and a post about cruising… There is something for the geek interested in cruising. Has anyone heard of Geek Cruises? Now known as InSight Cruises they have been putting together cruises for like minded people for years. Started by Neil Bauman and Theresa Mazich in 2000 with their first cruise called Perl Whirl, they are now the place to go and sign in for a cruise.

One day I might be able to convince Christine to head out on one of these. For now, I will take any cruise I can get Breakfast at sea, on a private balcony with only the blue ocean in front of me and my wife beside me has to be one of my favorite things.

Happy cruising!