Cruise Lingo 101

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

So 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/mark those terms 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


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.

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