pleasure cruises
Vacations at sea
Pleasure cruises are voyages taken for enjoyment rather than transportation—typically on large ships offering entertainment, dining, and destinations as part of a leisure package.
The term distinguishes recreational sailing from commercial shipping or military missions: They booked a pleasure cruise through the Caribbean.
Sometimes used ironically for any unpleasant ordeal: Boot camp was no pleasure cruise.
- luxury linerUpscale passenger vessel
- ocean linerLarge scheduled passenger vessel
- yachtLarge pleasure vessel
- voyageJourney by sea
- bon voyageTraveler's send-off phrase
excursion · shore excursions · tour · port of call · fjords · sidewheeler · seafaring · sunbathing · sea breeze · sternwheeler · sundeck · deck chairs · oceans · passenger ferry · river steamboat · maritime · sailing · nautical
pleasure cruisescargo shipping
Transporting goods by vessel
freight transport · supply runs · fishing expeditions · container ships · merchant shipping
pleasure cruisesslave ships
Vessels transporting enslaved people
refugee boats · prison ships · Middle Passage · human trafficking · coffin ships
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