It was a total blast! And my partner and I are not into the bar scene or "circuit" parties. For us, that side of it was a spectacle and turned out to be very entertaining. But it was a super comfortable crowd to be "hanging" with for a week. In comparison, straight cruises we've been on have been crashing bores with respect to passengers and activities, and if there were any interesting men aboard you could pretty much assume they were off limits given the no-escape type of situation. Not so on the bear cruise, and it was a pleasure to greet every man I encountered with a "Good morning" or "How are you today?" enthusiastically as opposed to apprehensively. What a fun way to travel!
Oh, and interestingly, re: the men on straight cruises, we had the top decks on the front of the ship as clothing optional areas. When Carnival pulled in perpendicular to us in Puerto Vallarta, there were men on that ship hanging off the one side facing us. Not a single woman, mind you, and some of the men were using binoculars. Of course, some of the men on our ship decided to give them something to really look at . . .
Yeah, it was a really FUN time.
Ralph