Cruise With Friends Or Family

A cruise is a great way to travel with friends or family for to celebrate a special birthdays or anniversary. To go on a cruise with family is esspecially important if some live far away. My wife and I moved to Tampa, Florida - my parents and my parents-in-law stayed in Germany. I am so glad that we invited my mother-in-law to a cruise out of Tampa to the Western Caribbean before she passed away. I also invited our children so they had some time with grandma. I also invited my mother to a similar cruise out of Tampa and for her 80's birthday to a cruise out of Rome to the Greek Isles and Egypt. On both of these cruises I also invited my children and my son's girl friend.
Memories are not created by mistake, you have to help to create them. You will never say on your death bed "I should not have spent so much time with family and taken them on a cruise", you will regret if you did not!

My mother is 82 now and I realized that if she has something to look forward to, it is much better for her health. So I invited her for the 82nd birthday to another cruise in the Baltic Sea. I had planned a cruise on the Queen Mary 2 out of Hamburg, Germany this May, but my mother and the rest of the family is in Tampa as our daughter gets merried. Therefore I plan this cruise for May 2011.

My wife and I travel for years alone on our anniversary For my 60th birthday in December I will invite my family to the Norwegian Cruise Line's newest ship, the Epic.

We also cruise quiet often with friends

We have a large number of good friends and we usually cruised together in the Caribbean. This year I organize a really nice trip to Venice and from there on the Queen Victoria (the little sister of the Queen Mary 2) to the Greek Isles and Istanbul to Rome. Next year we might go to Bermuda, where I have never been.

Cruising with a Church Group is a great idea

As I mentioned earlier, my first cruise was with our church. The fellowship was really great and we met other church members in a different environment and made many new good friends.

You can reach Cruise Planner Christian Bellingrath at 813-992-0502 or by e-mail at

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