Too many people there is an image of blue rinse, and retired people whenever the word cruise is mentioned, but an increasing number of younger people are now taking holiday cruises.
Why not therefore think about a honeymoon cruise as a way of relaxing and having a lovely time after the big day? Cruising can in fact be a very romantic way of spending time together.
Apart from the moon over the sea, or the sunrise there are perfectly good alternative reasons for choosing a cruise.
If you think about it, you can visit several different destinations, and stay in the same luxury accommodation, be waited on hand and foot, and eat some of the best food you could ever imagine.
Just stop and think of the wonderful places you can go to, from Alaska to the Caribbean, the Norwegian Fiords to the Hawaiian islands, and many more places.
To discuss only three honeymoon cruises may be a tiny fraction of what is available, but it will give the reader and potential honeymooner a flavour of what a cruise could be like.
So if we take the Caribbean first, there can be few more romantic spots on the earth, to be surrounded daily by clear blue-turquoise water, with sunsets to romance to.
The great thing about the Caribbean isn't places like Antigua and Barbados, which are popular anyway.
No the joy is the number of small relatively unknown islands, very intimate and unspoilt.
Normally Caribbean Cruises to the eastern and Southern Caribbean will leave from Miami or Fort Lauderdale.
Galveston in Texas could be your departure point for the Western Caribbean.
When you do your research you will discover that one or two cruise lines even have their own Caribbean Island, which is pretty special for a dream honeymoon.
Another very popular itinerary is a Hawaii honeymoon cruise, and here you have two choices.
You can sail around the islands, but to do that you need to fly to Hawaii, or alternatively you board in Mexico and sail to and from Hawaii.
Ideally for a honeymoon cruise is to sail between the islands, because flying today is such a tedious way to make these kinds of journeys.
You could of course do something completely different and go on one of the many Alaska honeymoon cruises.
What you get here is the normal onboard luxury, and added to that is a diversity of scenery from huge glaciers to high mountains, down to verdant green forests.
The one big thing is the chance to see a huge range of wildlife not available elsewhere.
Of course in the summer you have the incredibly long hours of daylight, and with reasonable temperatures allows an escape from the heat of say the Caribbean or the tropics.
As you can see a honeymoon cruise is a honeymoon with quite a difference.