Cruising: not always what it appears to be. By Andrew Ian Dodge.

If all these snapshots of happy faces on the background of azure ocean, palm trees, love boats, hunky sailors and fabulous on-board dinners haven't caused you a terminal infatuation with cruise ships, here is a second opinion. It just might make you a bit more careful when you part with a humongous amount for something that could be not exactly what you expected.