WHEN I TOLD my husband, James, that I wanted to take a Caribbean cruise for Christmas, he looked at me like I’d suggested we name our firstborn child Pineapple. Taking a cruise, he worried, was akin to being trapped in a sterile megaresort. “Couldn’t we just go to St. Barts for the week?” he said hopefully. Seven days there at Christmas would cost us about $35,000, I’d found, not including flights or foodstuffs, which far exceeds our vacation budget. But I’d discovered an all-suite yacht, Windstar Cruises’ Star Pride—which accommodates just 212 passengers—that would be headed to St. Barts and other...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 13, 2019 18:22 UTC