Nautical Cruise Lines Halloween Cruise: Freeport Long Island, NY

Halloween does not fall on just one day for me and my family. Halloween is an all month event, and each year my family looks for the best means of spooky entertainment.

Last year my brother discovered The Long Island Ghost Ship Dinner Cruise which occurred on the 28th or 29th of October 2006. I see this year that Nautical Cruise is scheduling the exact same cruise on the exact same night for this year, so I figured I may as well warn all of you folks whom are interested in dishing out $85.99 per person to board the ship and enjoy a night of fun.

But first let me explain why we were suckered into believing that this cruise would be fun. Well for one, it was SUPPOSED to leave dock and cruise around the bay, secondly there is an open bar, dinner, coffee, desert, (a 4 star meal), a costume contest, and best of all the ship is supposed to be done up to be all spooky.

What you really get:

1. A 2 hour drive into Freeport, only to wait for another hour for them to board you onto the ship. Mind you the wind was blowing, and that night the temperature was freezing. So my family and a group of about 150 other people all sat out in the cold as we waited for the captain to let us on board. I did not let this ruin my spirit though, I was ready to hop on board and get the party started.

2. You get piled into a small dance room. In the middle of the room is a nice slick wood floor, and on the sides are tables. On one end of the room is the bar, and the other end is the DJ booth. The dance floor in my opinion seemed way too small to hold this many people.

3. The loud music plays, yet thrown in the mix is some ridiculous tunes. I thought this was a Halloween party? Usually when I throw Halloween bashes at home NOTHING but spooky tunes gets played. We do not grind on the dance floor to Usher, or Christina Aguleria. What Gives!? I had to actually go up and recommend they play Michael Jacksons Thriller! My Halloween song man!