May 2016

If you have ever been a part of, or even better, planned a family reunion on land, you probably don’t need me to tell you why so many people are turning to cruises for reunions. There are so many details to it with lodging, what are you doing, what you are eating, who’s cooking, who is paying for it, who is traveling, and who isn’t. And I won’t even get into the drama that starts happening because someone is staying closer to this person than that person, or because Aunt Mary is mad at Aunt Jane and on and on… It very quickly all becomes exhausting before it even begins. 

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How many times have you discussed or started planning a family/friends reunion only to have it quickly fall apart?  There are so many dynamics and personalities to it that it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the details.  I have been pretty successful at these at both land and cruise reunions so I thought I would put together a list of top tips for making it actually come to be.  This is the second part of my family reunion series after, “Why Cruises Have Become So Popular for Reunions”, but most of these tips pertain to land based reunions as well. 

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