Cruise Lingo 101

Freedom of the Seas docked in St. Thomas
Photo Credit: Shon "Cruise Man 3000" Ford

Many of you may, or may not, have seen me use an array of cruise terms on Twitter and Facebook this year--and see me hash-tag them as “Cruise Lingo”. It all started one day when I was on Twitter and a friend of mine was getting ready to embark on a cruise vacation. I was beginning to feel that the usage of Bon Voyage was becoming somewhat cliché, so I began to brainstorm.

I then came up with the first cruise lingo term, cruisestacular! I merged the words cruise and spectacular, and cruisetacualr was birthed. I wound up saying, “Have a cruisetacular time!” Then that motivated me to form more words and I began merging positive words with the word cruise. You can do it too, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3! Try it today and the next time you catch yourself wanting to say, “Bon Voyage,” try replacing it with a cruise lingo term--it will make you conversations more… cruisetacular!

Other Cruise Lingo terms that I have come up with:

• Cruisetastic 
• Cruisalicious 
• Cruistiful 
• Cruiserific 
• Cruiesmazing 
• Cruisemendous 
• Cruisetabulous

I know that it’s not much now, but I promise more words will be sailing your way in 2011! If you come up with some Cruise Lingo be sure to send them my way! Stay posted, I may have a dictionary’s worth soon.

Be sure to check out the #CruisetacularCruiseLingoCrew on Twitter, and follow them today!
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