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The weeklong eastern Caribbean cruise departs November 14 from Ft. I was on this cruise, and had I not seen a group of about 6 women wearing cougar pride shirts (no joke!!), I would have never thought twice about it. I found out after I came home that it was the "cougar cruise." If anything, there were more young (35-under) single people than I have experienced in previous cruises. It may have felt slightly more like a "booze cruise"/party boat than I have experienced in previous cruises, but nothing too crazy.
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Gosse, who has been hosting singles events for more than 30 years, said he got the idea after hosting a cougar convention in Palo Alto, California. This cruise comes after cougar cruises have been banned by the three largest cruise lines in Australia, and also by Carnival, the world's largest cruise line, in the USA. The entire cougar experience happens over just a quick weekend. The cruise leaves San Diego Friday afternoon, goes to Ensenada, Mexico, and is back in California by 8 a.m.
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Any fish the participants purchase will be air-shipped home from the breeder by special arrangement, bypassing the hassle of transporting live animals through customs and caring for them during travel. Like most theme cruises, the December cougars cruise was organized and marketed by an outside agency, but when SinglesTravelCompany.com tried to set up Cougar Cruise II with Carnival, they were turned down. "Obviously, people are not looking for marriage at the first encounter. They're looking just to meet people, have some fun, dance, party, whatever," he said.
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"We try as much as possible to get as close to 50/50 as we can, but we never succeed in getting enough cougars for everybody," said Gosse. "We usually have too many women and not enough guys, but there's been a paradigm shift in recent years, so now the cubs are more excited about it than the cougars." "Then we did one in Beverly Hills and had a massive crowd down there, so I thought, maybe we should do a cougar cruise. I didn't think anyone would want to go. Needless to say, the phone is ringing off the hook."
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But having attended a cougar event on a lark and ended up winning the title Miss Cougar San Francisco, she received a free trip on Royal Caribbean International's Mariner of the Seas. When the group tried to book another Carnival trip, the cruise company said no. Carnival said it didn't have any problems with the Cougar Cruise group but has chosen to discontinue such "theme" bookings. Census Bureau, for every 100 single women in their 20s in America, there are 118 single men in their 20s.
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A "cub" is someone in their 20s or early 30s who likes to date older women, according to Gosse. "I've had to hire two more people part-time just to pick up the phones," she said. Defined by the Urban Dictionary, a cougar is "an older woman who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man." It can be anyone from "an overly surgically altered wind tunnel victim, to an absolute sad and bloated old horn-meister." "The men almost always outnumber the women and sometimes by a 3 to 1 margin."
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But fear not, seaworthy cougars and cubs, other cruise lines are apparently not so prudish. Cougar Cruise II () is already set to go aboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas, sailing 7 nights from LA to the Mexican Riviera May 16Â? 23, and Cougar Cruise III (/singles/2010_3rd_international_cougar_cruise.html) is set to depart December 3 for a three-night Bahamas cruise aboard NCL's Norwegian Sky. This past May, Mariner of the Seas hosted the second cougar cruise but it didn't seem to be a huge success. But cougars and cubs fear not, the organizers have already scheduled two other cruises on different cruise lines.
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"We live in Utah and Utah is a little more quiet than the other states and we saw this and we just thought it's something different, something fun, we're going to just go and just have a good time and meet people," Lux said. Started in 2010, Royal Caribbean Blog offers daily coverage of news and information related to the Royal Caribbean cruise line along with other relevant topics of cruising, such as entertainment, news, photo updates and more. If you're looking for a cougar cruise, there's a new one that has been announced, but you will need to get to Spain to experience this one.
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"Tim Robbins [and] Susan Sarandon was the first high-profile cougar-cub relationship," Gosse said of the actors, who have been together since the late 1980s. "Now we're seeing a paradigm shift where these younger guys are actively looking for older women." The ship, which sets sail from San Diego, California, to Ensenada, Mexico, for three nights, is booked for 300 guests and even has a waiting list. The ship has three swimming pools, a seven-deck-high atrium, bar and grill, a Moroccan-inspired Casablanca Casino and a lounge that features stage shows, according to Ann Thomas, owner of the Singles Travel Company and organizer of the Cougar Cruise. The organizers don't follow up with Cougar Cruise passengers, so they don't know whether any have found long-term relationships or married after the trips, Gosse said.
Social events on the last cruise had events for cougars and cubs (younger men) included a hot tub party, group cocktails and shore activities. Gosse said that more younger men signed up for the cruise than older women. Meanwhile, an affinity group that you'd expect to sail under the radar seems in fact bent on world domination. I'm talking about quilters, who have the chance of sailing on no fewer than five Quilting Cruises () over the next 18 months.
"We assume this group will follow our guest conduct policy just like any other guests," Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez told the Herald. "Cougars," the popular term for older women who pursue younger men, called "cubs," are hot in pop culture right now and are featured in prime-time television shows like the ABC show "Cougar Town," starring Courteney Cox. I know, I know, it's a blow -- and such a surprise, coming on the heels of what was apparently a very successful December "cougars" cruise aboard Carnival Elation, in which nearly 300 older women and willing younger men, um, participated. Manderino is part of a growing group of cougars, older women attracted to younger men, who seek "cubs," younger men who are attracted to older women.
The "cougars" hitting the open seas will be the type more likely to prowl cocktail lounges than the wild frontier -- older women who prey upon young, virile men. For those of you living under a rock, a cougar is a woman usually at least in her late 30s who dates younger men who are typically in their 20s. A quintessential couple would be actress Demi Moore and actor Ashton Kutcher, who share a 15-year age difference.
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