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Contents:

• THE ATLANTIS GAY CISE: REVIEW AND ESSENTIAL GUI
• MY ATLANTIS GAY CISE TRIP – WHAT IT WAS LIKE
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• 12 TOP GAY CIS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 2023 AND 2024
• 'GAY SUMMER MP': HOW CIS CREATE SPACE FOR LGBTQ+ TRAVELERS AT SEA
• CAN A GAY CISE KEEP 4,700 PEOPLE SAFE AMID COVID?
• ATLANTIS GAY CIS: EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW TO CISE LIKE A PRO
• ALL GAY CIS
• CHECK OUT OUR TOP 7 NEW GAY CIS & TOURS FOR 2023
• I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.
• 11 THGS I LEARNED ON MY 1ST GAY CISE
• GAYCISEVATNSR/GAYCISEVATNSJOPOSTSFAQUPG CISATLANTIS EVENTS FAQWHAT IS THEIR WEB SE?WHEN WILL I FD OUT THE PARTY THEM?NO, SERLY, WHEN WILL I FD OUT THE PARTY THEM?WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MON PARTY THEM THAT I N EXPECT?WHEN N I SIGN UP FOR SHORE EXCURSNS/DRK PACKAG/SPECIALTY DG/TER?ARE THERE ALHOL DRK PACKAG?I WANT TO SIGN UP FOR A CISE, BUT DON'T SHOW UP ON THE ATLANTIS WEB SE?WHAT IS THE DRS ? CAN I BE NAKED?WHAT IS THE POLICY ON PUBLIC SEX?ATLANTIS EVENTS FAQ
• ATLANTIS GAY CIS REVIEWS
• DEATH CONFIRMED ONBOARD ATLANTIS EVENTS' OASIS OF THE SEAS GAY CISE
• GAY CIS: HERE IS YOUR ULTIMATE GUI FOR 2023
• ON A GAY CISE, JT ONE OF THE GUYS
• ALL GAY CISE CALENDAR:

THE ATLANTIS GAY CISE: REVIEW AND ESSENTIAL GUI

Get onboard Europe’s biggt all-gay cise this summer as we sail the extraordary Odyssey of the Seas to Italy, Sicily, Monte Carlo & more pl an overnight thrillg Ibiza!

MY ATLANTIS GAY CISE TRIP – WHAT IT WAS LIKE

Get onboard Europe’s largt all-gay cise when we sail the brand-new Odyssey of the Seas om Rome to the bt of Italy, France, Monte Carlo and more.

What started as a “gay week on the beach wh iends” has sce turned to the largt gay-owned pany the world dited to creatg unique vatns for LGBTQ travelers. This is the gay cise that everyone talks about and the Atlantis gay cise particular is one of the bt known and hosts the biggt gay cise the world. In our Atlantis gay cise review and sential gui, we will share all our personal gay cise experienc as well as answerg all the qutns you might have about gog.

This means that Atlantis will buy out (charter) an entire ship om Royal Caribbean, Celebry Cis, Virg Voyag or Norwegian Cise l, and then e the ship to n a gay cise for normally 7 nights. By charterg the ship exclively for Atlantis guts, Atlantis n then n their own programme of events, parti and activi tered to gay travellers. We had some big prenceptns here, we thought was only the sterotypil poster mcle boys and we were a ltle timidated – however, and this is a recurg theme this gay cise review, we were wrong.

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

Y there are plenty of poster boys, but havg done multiple gay cis we have seen every body type reprented and celebrated, every age and people om all over the world. In terms of genr and sexualy, anyone is wele to book an Atlantis gay cise, we have met straight upl and lbians onboard, but is 90+% gay men.

Whout a doubt the environment on the Atlantis gay cise ship was the most iendly and welg environment we have ever enuntered our liv. The parti on an Atlantis gay cise are a full sle productn, exactly like you would expect om any big gay circu party wh ternatnal DJ’s and the party lotns beg turned to jungl, unr the sea worlds or whatever the theme might be.

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JJ Malibu tick all the box for ‘gay’ party attire and we stocked up before gog on our first cise (as you n tell all the photos! After speakg to many members of staff on-board they all know what to expect and fact some actively volunteer to work on an Atlantis gay cise. While most of have seen an Atlantis gay cise via social media or advertisements, you’re probably still wonrg…what are the Atlantis gay cis really like?

Other trips for ternatnal gay pri events, ski weeks, and events like Gay Days are great, but the Atlantis Gay Cise jt felt granr. I thk ’s important to know that every Atlantis gay cise has so many programmed events happeng, that ’s tly impossible to do everythg. It seems most people do on the ternatnal cis, but sounds like the gay cis out of Miami and San Diego are pretty much nstant circu parti.

'GAY SUMMER MP': HOW CIS CREATE SPACE FOR LGBTQ+ TRAVELERS AT SEA

The term – a phemism that dat back to the 1950s – was once ed to dite gay social events on daily cise le programs, whout explicly llg out members of the muny on board. As travel on the high seas ntu to bounce back om the COVID-19 panmic, gay and lbian travelers should nsir settg sail on a fun-filled cise vatn as their next planng a cise, vatners should first nsir what their ial sailg looks like. Some cise operators (thk: Atlantis Events and La Demence) are known for their electrifyg, all-night parti, which may be perfect for gay groups of iends.

Cisers should also thk about whether they'd like to travel aboard a gay-iendly mastream le, such as Celebry Cis or Virg Voyag, or opt for an all-gay, full-ship charter wh a third-party vatn pany.

Of VACAYA's all-gay charters, he says, "For one magil week, our muny gets to be the majory and live life out loud the blissful utopia VACAYA creat on a gay cise. This le gets the stamp of approval om prev LGBTQ cisers, who praise the ships' genr-ntral bathrooms, onboard shows wh rint drag queens and diverse Voyag offers gay-specific sailgs through travel pani like Atlantis Events, but s more mastream erari still offer a welg, clive atmosphere that attracts LGBTQ cisers year-round. Atlantis EventsThe world's largt gay and lbian travel brand, Atlantis Events was found 1991 and wel more than 20, 000 travelers annually on LGBTQ vatns.

CAN A GAY CISE KEEP 4,700 PEOPLE SAFE AMID COVID?

For s all-gay cis, Atlantis charters megaships om popular l like Royal Caribbean Internatnal and Norwegian Cise Le, so cisers will have a fully immersive board, travelers n enjoy all the perks the megaships have to offer (thk: pools, hot tubs, sports urts and plenty of dg choic), pl special events like drag performanc, motivatnal speakers, LGBTQ movi on mand each b and high-energy circu parti across the ship.

"As an LGBTQ ciser, you're lookg for a ship wh lots of entertament, cludg dance parti and events, " says Mars Martez, founr of Men Who Bnch, a Black gay liftyle blog.

"One of the bt cise [l] for gay cisg is Atlantis, sce you'll be able to meet hundreds of attractive men and party all day and night on the ship. Cisers will also enjoy performanc by drag queens, gay Broadway stars and more, pl more typil river cise perks like sightseeg and lavish meals.

ATLANTIS GAY CIS: EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW TO CISE LIKE A PRO

Celebry Cis(Courty of Celebry Cis)Celebry Cis sets the scene for an excellent vatn for gay travelers, om s extravagant annual Pri parti to s daily LGBTQ programmg throughout the year. Although all erari are gay-iendly, nsir bookg a Pri Party at Sea sailg (which tak place each June) for an extra special experience. Private travel pani like VACAYA also charter Celebry ships for all-gay voyag throughout the (Getty Imag)Specifilly marketed toward lbians and LGBTQ women, Olivia has hosted more than 350, 000 travelers by land and sea over almost five s.

The popular cise le equently partners wh Atlantis Events to offer all-gay voyag throughout the year, but even the standard sailgs earn praise.

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Outsi of the sailg experience, Royal Caribbean has also publicly mted to support the LGBTQ muny throughout the year, and was the first cise le to earn the tle "Gay Traveler Approved" om GayTravel 2023, nsir a Royal Caribbean voyage that sails to gay-iendly statns. ]The Cise Wh La Demence(Courty of The Cise wh La Demence)Acrdg to past cisers, if you're lookg for one of the bt party scen on the open seas, nsir an all-gay cise wh La Demence. Powered by a popular gay nightclub Bssels wh the same name, La Demence – French for "the madns" – primarily ters to a European crowd.

Prev cisers had high praise for the erari – which exclively vis gay-iendly lotns – as well as the uy cktails, themed nights (stum strongly enuraged), glamouro entertament, and unique events like drag bgo and high heel Demence sails every summer to statns like Rome; Athens and Mykonos, Greece; Kotor, Montenegro; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and more. The entire ship is full of LGBT guts and all staff have been extensively traed to provi you wh a welg and gay-iendly experience.

CHECK OUT OUR TOP 7 NEW GAY CIS & TOURS FOR 2023

They offer large, full-ship gay cis where all the guts onboard are LGBT and they charter top-of-the-le cise ships om well-known pani like Royal Caribbean, Celebry Cis or Norwegian Cise L. Some longtime Atlantis guts have even bee trated wh Atlantis' placency the market, havg been the only large-sle, gay cise provir.

I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.

While Atlantis, RSVP Vatns and Olivia are popular among gay travelers many of our clients choose to travel on tradnal l such as Holland Ameri, Regent and Royal Caribbean. Both jumped at a chance for Moss' girliend to be somewhere "culturally entirely queer"bee she had not had as much experience socializg LGBTQ+ more: Bt travel suranceFor some LGBTQ+ travelers, gay cis have offered a kd of haven on the seas. While early cis tered primarily to gay men and lbians, the market has grown recent years, wh more optns aimed at a more diverse array of queer travelers.

Where people uld be together wh members of their muny and get away and be ee om fai or work, you know, be out, bee the world was so different the '80s, " John Tanzella, print and CEO of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Travel Associatn, sailgs were a tougher sell back then, though.

11 THGS I LEARNED ON MY 1ST GAY CISE

"It was probably really hard to get a cise le to take a gay group ( the early days), " Tanzella some s, ships rryg LGBTQ+ passengers were turned away om ports, he add. 'I jt want to see more of ':The importance of seeg people like you while travelgJon Fenwick went on his first gay cise 2008 wh Atlantis Events after some iends talked him to .

"You fely see a lot of the same fac om trip to trip, and a lot of people would go on the same on every year jt to have a rnn, or sometim we ll gay summer mp, " said Fenwick, a ernment rmatn technology specialist based Arlgton, optns were also more limed and siloed, wh cis aimed primarily at gay men or lbians, he add. Fenwick has met other gay passengers on mastream cis but said the experience isn't the same, "You fely don't have the (same) eedom to be yourself on a regular cise. Among those, Atlantis is particularly popular among gay men but wel women, transgenr and nonbary guts, and "even straight parents, " as well, CEO Rich Campbell said an while Olivia Travel's guts primarily intify as cisgenr lbians and queer women, nonbary and transgenr guts have always been wele, acrdg to VP of marketg Autumn Roper's part, he said the kds of sailgs VACAYA aims to offer shift the dynamic LGBTQ+ people experience elsewhere, even if only for a week or two at a time.

16, 2022As the Omicron variant of the ronavis ntu to surge onboard cise ships, forcg several cise l to ncel and postpone voyag, Atlantis Events, a gay and lbian tour operator, is preparg to lnch one of s biggt events on Sunday: a 4, 700-person Caribbean cise markg the pany’s 30th as the panmic is ragg around the world and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn has issued a stark warng tellg Amerins to avoid travel on cise ships, regardls of their vaccatn stat, Atlantis sists that s vaccatn mandate, ttg requirements and health protols are enough to provi a safe environment for guts throughout the voyage. Before the panmic, Atlantic Events hosted more than 25, 000 guts each year, anizg specialty gay and lbian events on cise ships and rorts around the world. ”Ron Davis, a 50-year-old talent manager om Nashville who will be embarkg on his 26th Atlantis cise on Sunday, said the lls to ncel the cise are overblown and exacerbated by the stigma agast gay cis that prum they are all dg-fueled sex parti wh no lims.

GAYCISEVATNSR/GAYCISEVATNSJOPOSTSFAQUPG CISATLANTIS EVENTS FAQWHAT IS THEIR WEB SE?WHEN WILL I FD OUT THE PARTY THEM?NO, SERLY, WHEN WILL I FD OUT THE PARTY THEM?WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MON PARTY THEM THAT I N EXPECT?WHEN N I SIGN UP FOR SHORE EXCURSNS/DRK PACKAG/SPECIALTY DG/TER?ARE THERE ALHOL DRK PACKAG?I WANT TO SIGN UP FOR A CISE, BUT DON'T SHOW UP ON THE ATLANTIS WEB SE?WHAT IS THE DRS ? CAN I BE NAKED?WHAT IS THE POLICY ON PUBLIC SEX?ATLANTIS EVENTS FAQ

Aqua Theatre, the jumbo outdoor party space on the world’s largt gay ciseImage if an entire cy of 5, 000 people were gay, and all cid to take a week off wh no exceptns or terptns to vatn together. Midsize Norwegian BlissMy personal preference is the smaller ships, ’s easier to meet people bee I fd people on the big ships stratify to the normal gay cliche subgroups and suffer om “too many fish” syndrome, ie “why bother wh you when there’s probably someone cuter around the rner. 9% of the time and liv one of the world’s great Gay Mec ci, ’s a revelatn and a very special experience to feel totally liberated and never worry about what straight people thk of you.

An experienced gay travel agent n help you optimize for thisYou’ll get the stume them ~3 wks advanceAvoid havg an elaborate stume for every sgle party, n feel like you’re spendg hours a day gettg to stume (bee o you are;), pecially on days wh a tea dance, and you’ll feel more prsured to go to all of them if you have a stume for eachThe Atlantis “vatn gui” PDF will e ~2 wks advance, ntag port tails etc…Register wh the cise le g the bookg # the email, enter all your 72h advancePay attentn to COVID ttg l, n be tricky to time your rults properly (not too early, not too late)It’s ually cheaper to prepay for ter; you’ll need on the big boats to fd your iends, otherwise you’ll never see themPackgPack an outlet strip, there are very few outlets the bsBrg earplugs (duh), I remend theDownload mic advanceBrg sh to tip your b steward.

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People have been arrted by lol thori that have anti-gay laws even whout settg foot on landYou n unscrew the shower head for cleang out ?FoodThe boats offer three dg optns: the ee, ually 24-hour buffet; the table-service dg room, ually open for bnch/dner, and upcharge “specialty” rtrants wh eher prix fixe men or a-la-rte. Be one of the first gay cisers to sail on the brand-new Norwegian Prima that featur larger staterooms, three pool cks (one that clus an fy pool), the sea’s tallt watersli, new rtrants, onboard food tcks, and an door space touted as the bt ever for an Atlantis party! In addn to fabulo theme parti, this cise will feature the Atlantis Gay Comedy Stars, award-wng dance show Noise Boys, barets, live mic, and Summer: The Mil celebratg the life of dis in Donna Summer.

For burly, beefy gay bears who enjoy cisg the high seas, Bear Voyag has announced their Greek Island Cise aboard Virg Voyag’ new ship, Rilient Lady. For gay bears and their admirers, Bear Voyag has arranged a lp of special guts cludg Ben Zook and Joe Dietl om Where the Bears Are.

In 2021, I raid my savgs acunt and spent $3, 059 to book an "all-gay" cise around the dancg troupe nvced me to buy the ticket, which was for 10 days on the Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas. The special 2022 Atlantis sailg would be filled wh about 4, 000 gay people, the majory of them my life warned me to manage my expectatns.

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Others add a lghg emoji each time they msaged about , as if the choice self was ludicro or exclively beg around gay people was crgeworthy and embarrassg. I now know that, until you've been on one of the cis, you really have no ia what happens on day one, I was havg the time of my life — we'd created our own floatg universe As our ship set sail om Rome, dawned on me that I'd never been around this many gay men before. It mands rtrat to not absorb microaggrsns, but to stead allow them to fuel my day, I mt stand firm and ph agast nventns and benchmarks of the heteronormative world that many gay men like myself choose to reject.

VACAYA currently offers 4 to 5 trips per year cludg a large, full-ship gay cise along wh several smaller ship, river cis and rort stays.

VACAYA is still new to the market but they have ma a huge splash and appear to have claimed a well-served spot the gay travel dtry. We partner directly wh a Europe-based gay sailg pany to be your hosts on this awome gay sailg trip and you’ll also have a certified skipper to pilot the boat. Although we will be jog a large ship wh other guts, our small gay group trip will offer daily group dners together, group shore excursns, private cktail parti, group activi and more!

GAY CIS: HERE IS YOUR ULTIMATE GUI FOR 2023

Harmony of the Seas is the perfect ship for the next chapter gay ’s a thrillg chance to experience the ship everyone is talkg about, wh even more excg entertament and parti than ever. Both tim I had the time of my life and, fact, I'm gog on two Atlantis cis next year (Biggt Gay cise ever, part 3 and a Med cise). Whether you opt for lmer seas on a smaller vsel, or the stormy waters of a bigger party boat, you're guaranteed a good time on a gay cise.

You'll be surround by like-md LGBTQ+ shipmat, and a crew whose jobs are centered around providg the bt – and gayt – experience possible.

Travel alone – most gay cise pani offer a b match program where they will assign you a roommate, so you don’t have to pay for the full price of a two-person room if you’re travelg alone. The ncept of LGBT-specific travel started the ’70s and was pneered by Hans Ebensten, who began takg gay men on tours raftg through the Grand Canyon as well as to Carnival R Janeiro.

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The ncept of a gay cise was the perfect environment bee the ship self was isolated on the ocean and all the atten uld be pletely themselv whout fear of judgment or harassment.

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The first all gay cis were started by RSVP 1987, followed by the other pneers Atlantis Events (1991) and Olivia, who started offerg lbian cis 1990. Large full-ship gay cis – this is the most mon and popular gay cise where you n expect top-of-the-le cise ships om well-known pani like Royal Caribbean, Virg Voyag, Celebry Cis or Norwegian Cise L.

Small full-ship gay cis – smaller pani like Source Journeys, Brand g, Out Adventur and other LGBT tour operators anize smaller cis. Gay river cis – gay river cis are popular Europe and typilly vis statns like France, Germany, Atria, The Netherlands or Belgium, jt to name a few. It’s important to note that the experience on a small sailg boat of around 10-20 people is que a different experience than a gay cise.