Santa Cruise: A Festive and Fun Holiday Story

Four friend reunite at a class reunion, plans to get together for a cruise give us a delightful plot with amazing characters . Give this a chance to enjoy their plan and it's outcomes.

I liked the characters, how they all got along and complemented each other. It was a happy story where each one found that special someone and a job that was meaningful. The cruise experience was well told too.

This is diametrically opposite of my usual reading, which tends to be much more grimly realistic. But every year or two I read some soppy chick lit to clear my palette. A well crafted Fern Michaels novel fits the bill nicely with a minimum of slop and happy endings all around, despite my awareness that its characters don't exist in real life. Then I return replete with saccharine to my usual fare for a year or so.

Sign me up for the next cruise. Reading this book I vividly recalled how much fun I had on my last cruise. In fact, I visited all the ports mentioned in this book. The writing was so descriptive that I could visualize the people, places, and things. I loved the friendship between these women. Each women is so unique, you would think they would not have anything in common, but they just click. Nothing is more powerful then women encouraging each other to step boldly out of our comfort zones and become their authentic self. We don't always have to agree with the path one is taking, but acknowledge that there are many paths to success and finding fulfillment. Be open to new opportunities and meeting new people.

I got this as a big Fern Michaels fan for both romance & Sisterhood books. This is a nice, clean romance about 4 women who reconnect at high school reunion and plan/go on a singles hosted cruise for New Years. The relationship portions between the women and the men they meet are very well done and enjoyable. The distraction was something that ought to have been caught at least by the editors or draft readers. I am a frequent cruiser with over 65 cruises, several on ships that are ‘of the seas’ in name. Many of the descriptions of the ship are of one of the big ships. This appears to be time lined very recent and a check of Key West shows that it would be before the limits being imposed on cruise ships. However, all cruiselines of the size to have as many paid restaurants as this one has have almost everything done on their seapass cards. Boarding was almost right. There are no paper bills .. everything is charged to seapass card and paid at end of cruise. There is no ship that doesn’t allow tipping on top of the automatic tipping. The daily activities listing is not called a manifest… that has a completely different meaning. It is also now on an APP, but paper copies can be requested for the cabin steward to deliver the next days when making up the room at night. There are multiple activities on sea days for every hour of the day … almost as many on port days. Flash mobs are usually limited to repositioning cruises (lots of sea days for practice) as our Choirs. All restaurants have menus and each person at table will order different things for appetizer, sides, main meal and desserts. Singles activities and excursions are planned by the company (separate from cruise line) hosting the cruise. All excursions have many more people and often have those ticketed meet in the cruise ship theatre so that they are escorted to the right vehicles. Alternative is lining up behind a sign on shore. The book descriptions are too unorganized. Sorry, but all of the misinformation/descriptions became very distracting.