How do you pick a cruise?

Travel agent?

If I'm in a small room with my mother and sister, will we all be alive after seven days or will the headlines read "Bloodbath on the High Seas?"

I feel your pain. I'm about to spend a week at the beach in a 6-bedroom house with The Boy and -- count 'em -- *13* of his family members, 7 of whom are neices and nephews.

I'm wondering if I stay drunk the whole week, will it be obvious?

Todd has a good point.

My mother went on a Maritimes cruise like that a few years ago. She isn't feeble, but I can ask her about the rest. All I recall right now is that there were slot machines on the boat.

There are a lot of cruise websites, maybe start there. From what I've seen on 2 cruises, they are very accessible for people with little mobility and they allow one to be as active or not active as one wishes.

On one cruise I shared a small interior room and we were rarely in there. On my cruise alone (work cruise) I was in a larger room with a balcony and I spend much more time there. If your family is one to require everyone spend all the time together, I think a shared room might make you crazy.

There was access on both cruises, but it was occassionally spotty. You should be fine if you are in a port everyday.

When they were mobile and very active, my grandparents were on cruises and land tours with this company: [link] something like that may work for you all.

Somehow, I missed the tutu.

(work cruise)

The words make sense individually, but together...

Ginger, I think a cruise would be an easy way to go. They're very used to people with mobility issues. As for picking one, you should probably talk to a travel agent. I can talk to my husband's family -- they go on a lot of cruises, have difficulty walking, and like their food plentiful and blandish [in my opinion] -- to see if they have any recommendations.

I wonder if consumer reports has any recommendations? Let me check...

My company was doing a project with the cruise company, I had to go on the ship and train/educate the staff that would be marketing/selling the product. I was on the ship for 3 days of a 7 day "repositioning cruise" and it was relaxing, but not fun.

I have pondered the idea of proposing that they get a larger ocean-view room and my getting whatever the cheapest interior room is. My other theory is that I can spend a lot of time in a shipboard bar.

Ginger, to be serious, a friend recently went on a cruise with her mother. Now ... her mother is in excellent health and they get along very well together, so it's a different situation.

Would you like me to ask which cruise line? I do remember her saying that the median age on the cruise was older, to put it nicely.