When you are the cruise director of a magazine (a position that’s rarer than a unicorn) you thrill to news like that. And so the hoped-for image that we have of the National Review 2010 Post-Election Cruise – that it will be a big, rollicking, exciting, packed event – seems to be coming true. At least on the “packed” front. We had over 720 people on the 2008 Post-Election sailing, and at the current rate of reservations we are going to surpass that.

What is an NR cruise like? Why would you enjoy it? Well, a few days ago I received this from Jerry H., who copied me on an email he was sending to his pals, urging them to join him and his lovely wife Judy this November14-21 on Holland America’s beautiful new ship, the Nieuw Amsterdam. He really captures the essence of an NR trip:

Friends,
This will be the 4th NR cruise Judy and I have taken and I can say, speaking for both of us, it’s a thoroughly enjoyable event. There are seminars, smokers, dinner table meetings and more—all with very bright, very affable and often very humorous people. (Don’t you sometimes wonder why we conservatives came to own humor these days? Maybe it’s simply that to the left there isn’t anything funny anymore.)
The wonderful NR people don’t turn out to be close personal friends but chatting with Ken and Alice Star, delightful couple, having dinner with Michele Malkin one time and Victor Davis Hanson another, busting a gut in listening to Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long and Mark Steyn skewer Hollywood “intellectuals,” be educated by Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of Islam—this and more—make the NR cruise unforgettable.
We’re looking forward to the great cast of NR and other presenters, but also, this year, Karl Rove, Phyllis Schlafly and Bernie Goldberg on this November’s cruise. Not to be missed. It’s a hoot.
(And, no, we don’t get any rewards from Jack Fowler for promoting the cruise.)
Jerry

No Jerry and Judy won’t get a reward (although I will try to force some piña coladas on them), but they do have my deep appreciation, not only for trying to bring along their friends, but for telling it like it is, and allowing us to share that. We promise: what Jerry says is exactly the kind of experience most people enjoy on an NR seafaring adventures. You will too – if you’ll only sign up. And if you’ll only do that before it’s too late. Visit www.nrcruise.com for complete information about the National Review 2010 Post-Election Cruise, and to reserve your beautiful, affordable cabin (prices start at only $1,899 a person).