The latest measure to clamp down on mass tourism in the city.

  • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Never been on a cruise, but you get to travel without leaving your room. Go to bed one night and wake up in a different city the next morning. Unfortunately, sleeping trains are not very common in europe, or somewhat expensive.

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      1 year ago

      Which sucks because trains are cool af and I’ve always wanted to ride one with a private room. They used to be cheaper than other modes of transportation but I never got around to it. Now they’re just as expensive if not more and I missed my chance for cheap train rides 😔

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been on four cruises. They are great for visiting many hard-to-reach spots, like the Aleutian islands and Alaska, or low-population islands in the pacific.

      They are terrible for visiting crowded, small cities, like European “old towns” like Venice and Amsterdam, where there’s already plenty of $15 flights from other major population hubs.

      Easy to fit one ship load of people onto the large beaches of a small Vanuatu island. Hard to shove three ship loads of people through the Anne Frank museum.