"Je préfère partir en croisière sur la Méditerranée."
Translation:I prefer to go away on a cruise on the Mediterranean.
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Maybe I am nit-picking but while 'on the Mediterranean' is perfectly acceptable, shouldn't 'to the Mediterranean'? I know 'sur' is being used here but if we're looking for just an English translation of the meaning, both phrases should be accepted. Cela n'a pas d'importance.
To say "go away on" is redundant. One goes on a cruise or takes a cruise, both of which mean "going away."
I just realized that Mediterranean means middle earth. Interesting n'est pas?
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Does "I prefer to go away on a cruise" rather than "cruises" strike anyone else as odd? If I'm talking about a general preference in this way, the plural seems much more natural, but it wasn't accepted.
"I prefer to go on a mediterranean cruise" should be accepted. Duo's version is cumbersome english
I prefer to leave by cruise on the Mediterranean. (what's wrong with this?)
In British English, the 'a' is superfluous. It's more common to say go on cruise (using cruise as a verb).
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I think it would be just as normal to go on "a" cruise. You would never go away on a cruise though, because a cruise isn't a form of transport, it's a type of holiday. You might go away on a boat, or a plane, or a bicycle.
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No, I would always say "to go on a cruise" (be careful about saying you're going cruising, it could be taken the wrong way, especially if you are a bloke...;)). What I've never heard anyone say in the UK - and we are boating people who know lots of, eh hem, "cruisers" (it's a name of a boat type. Get your mind out of the gutter :D) - is to "go away on a cruise". It's just "to go on a cruise", or potentially controversially, "to go cruising". That's pretty much the only way I've ever heard it said.