Courtesy of Crystal Cruises
Make Your Own Movie
Judd Apatow and George Lucas attended USC—why not you? On Crystal Cruises, take an iPad iMovie video course with USC film professors.
Learn to Play the Ukulele
Reprise South Pacific’s “Happy Talk” on this Polynesian instrument aboard Paul Gauguin Cruises’ Tahitian sailings.
Go “Skurfing”
On small-ship line Un-Cruise Adventures, you can stand on a paddleboard, grab a towrope, and “skurf’’ behind a speeding launch (like waterskiing).
Free Fall
Put on a jumpsuit, goggles, and helmet to “skydive” in a glass, 23-foot-high wind chamber atop Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum of the Seas.
Jane Wooldridge is the cruise editor at Travel + Leisure.