Some passengers have tried to use technology, including travel routers, to improve their connection (and sometimes to cheat the system). Royal Caribbean recently banned those devices and has begun confiscating them. Sign up for the Come Cruise With Me newsletter to save money on your next (or your first) cruise.

Related: Royal Caribbean shares more bad port news for passengers For some people, that's a fair tradeoff. You can travel, but you still have to check email and Slack and do a little work here and there.

There is no more relaxing form of travel than rail, and no better way to enjoy the beauties and sights of a country than through a carriage window, whatever the season. When it came to seeing landscapes, Robert Louis Stevenson thought “none more vivid... than from a railway train”.

Royal Caribbean has been leaning into the idea that cruises can be multigenerational. A survey the cruise commissioned in the UK shows that kids ages 6 to 11 support that idea.