Gamer Adventures, the California-based travel agency dedicated to creating cruising vacations for gamers, just returned from its most recent event, the Caribbean Gamer Cruise, held from March 22-28, 2009. The cruise set out from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and spent a week out at sea visiting the Cayman Islands and Key West, as well as time on board playing lots of games, including a Settlers of Catan tournament.

A couple of podcaster friends signed up for the cruise and recorded episodes while at sea. Pulp Gamer Out of Character: #72 – Jamaican Rum finds hosts Don Dehm and Derek Rex chatting with Kim Maita, owner of Gamer Adventures, Larry Roznai of Mayfair Games, co-sponsors of the cruise, and Dan Repperger of Fear the Boot. The fun then continues over on Fear the Boot Episode 141, where the crew continues to talk about gaming while cruising and about gamers as an underserved demographic (which is totally fascinating and will engender more thoughts/posts from me).

I did an interview with Kim Maita last year, on The Gamer Traveler Episode 9. Over the past year, it has been great to see how the business has grown, and how well the reception of the concept has been, both from the industry side, which has provided excellent support for the cruises, and from the customers, who have expressed their enthusiasm with their hard-earned cash.

Find out more about Gamer Adventures and their upcoming cruises (The Spoils Cruise and Intercon Splash I, aka. The LARP Cruise), and if you book anything, tell Kim that The Gamer Traveler sent you.

And before anyone asks, I would indeed like to go on one of these, but there are reasons why I haven’t yet. Stay tuned, though.