Not really.
When cruise ships spend a day (or more?) plodding from their origin port to whatever their first destination is, they seem to advertise them as “fun days at sea”. The truth is, they’re not very interesting because the outside world looks like this:
The weather was beautiful: sunny, warm, and a little breezy. The decks were completely stuffed with people enjoying the pools, hot tubs, beach chairs, loungers, and everything else. It was tricky to find a spot the four of us could sit together.
My suggestion for the cruise lines: on these fun days at sea, make sure the shipboard entertainment is top-notch. Get a hilarious stand-up comic. Host a little play. Show a movie or two. Have trivia games with fun hosts and interesting questions. Offer bingo where you don’t have to pay twenty bucks per card. Host a Spades tournament. And so on. The four of us came up with dozens of ideas about things the ship could offer that were better than the trivia game with confusing geography questions from a host who seemed like he’d rather be sleeping in his cramped bunk in steerage. Or the “couples’ game” with random married couples which could’ve been fun if it hadn’t been absolutely inappropriate and lewd. Or the comic who did a “clean” show that was moderately amusing– we assumed his best jokes were heavily adult-themed and saved for his “18+ show” late at night.
That said, sometimes you just have to make your own entertainment. I’d brought several quart games, and Brandon and I pulled them out to play. We had delicious food and plenty of snacks; I’m guessing we put away three or four thousand calories today. We enjoyed late-night deviled eggs (go figure). We roamed the deck. We lounged in the chairs when most of the passengers had retired to bed, watching the stars above the empty darkness of the ocean. So it wasn’t all bad.