Live Cruise Reports

A week ago I was on Carnival Jubilee. For the next 8 days I'll be "roughing it" on the Carnival Spirit. This will be the smallest ship I've sailed on since my first three cruises which were on Carnival Elation 2014-2016.
 
This is my 26th cruise, my 24th on Carnival, 1st time on a Spirit class ship, 1st time out of Mobile, 1st time to Bimini and Princess Cays, 2nd time to Freeport, and my 4th time to Nassau.

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Heading off for this much wanted and awaited 17 night adventure boarding on 18th (3 days time). We’ve had a lively roll call. Not many ports to do excursions in but lots of pooling of resources to share ideas. 
 
So this “live from” I’m hoping will also be a shared effort. 
 
Getting to Buenos Aires to embark gives multiple flights for most of us. Ours started today and a hint to any UK travellers looking to do this in future. Really good fares particularly in business can be had by first heading in the “wrong direction”. We are currently in Frankfurt waiting to board with several £k more in our pocket than all other routes offered. 

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Hello and welcome to anyone that wants to follow along with our LIVE for Discovery Princess: Feb 24th to Mar 2nd. 
 
This is a 7-night cruise with embarkation in Los Angeles at San Pedro with three ports in the Mexican Riviera: Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. 

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OK, by popular demand (OK, it was just one affirmative vote) here we go again.... 11 nights on board the Beyond with Capt. Kate and Bug. 
 
We actually go to three ports we have never been to -- Aruba, Curacao and Cartegena. Always nice to try something new. 
 
Sorry to start this review two days before embarkation --- that created a few posts of discussion on my last review. We won't be going to the International Festival of the Arts in Epcot but will be going to the Flower and Garden Festival after the cruise before we head north.

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Ok kids, the time is here for another adventure on the Epic. This will be our 3rd time sailing on her, but the first time since the renovations that were done during Covid, so we're excited to see the differences. Our friends are staying in the 2br Haven room we had last time, so I'm going to see if I can dig up some of the photos I took from that trip years ago to retake some new ones of the same views for a side-by-side comparison. 

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Hello everyone!
 
I'm getting ready to sail out for another adventure on Sunday and I plan to do a live review of my time on board. This time I will be sailing on the Oasis Of The Seas for seven days. 

The itinerary is quite possibly the least exciting I have ever done, but then again, you don't sail Oasis for the itinerary. Stops are Nassau, Coco Cay, Labadee, and Falmouth. I was going to book the 25th with this same route but the timing did not quite work out so I booked the 18th and assumed it would be Eastern and a slightly better run, but nope same thing. I don't sail for the itinerary anyway so it will be ok.

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Alright ladies and gents let’s get another party started!  Following the awesome 3 live threads that went on last week will be a tough act to follow without a doubt.  
 
This is our first VV cruise but we are not new to cruising. I think this will be our 20th-ish cruise overall ( something like that)  and the last 13 or so have all been with Royal Caribbean so I will mostly be comparing to that

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We are now commencing our seventh cruise with Silversea and the thirteenth cruise overall.  Such cruising started in June 2006 with Athens, the Greek islands, Turkish coast and Istanbul on Seabourn. More at the bottom with links to past live/blogs and related popular postings. 
 
This February 2024 adventure features our first visits for India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan.  

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Another shortie with a Premier package, and a passenger that has a bit of steam to get rid of. Coral Princess is nothing new, but we know what to expect and that is the best part.
 
We have flown to Brisbane today. Flying out of Newcastle Airport is dead easy, but the Virgin priority line was longer than the general one. Turns out we were sharing our flight with Matchbox Twenty. It has been a Long Day. 😉

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Why this cruise?
 
We were originally booked on K405D, 22 nights on Arvia, flying out from Manchester to Antigua on 9th March, cruising part of the Caribbean, and sailing back to Southampton. That was to celebrate a big birthday for our lass. It would be rude of me to reveal her age but needless to say, it is a milestone birthday, and has a zero in it.  We booked that last year when on Arvia, and it would have been the longest cruise for us thus far and, at almost £7k for an outside cabin, the most expensive.

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I am sitting on an airplane cruising at 30 something thousand feet.  Next stop Miami, Florida.  I am trying to decide whether or not I can commit to a live cruise review.  I will do my best but I can’t guarantee regular commentary because you know, I will be on a cruise. Life gets busy on a ship.

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This is our first time sailing MSC. We are frequent NCL Haveners. Yacht Club checkin was a breeze - 15 minutes from the parking lot to the cabin. We are staying in the Royal Suite and it is lovely. We usually stay in the Haven 2 bedroom. Tonight we are having dinner at Butcher’s Cut. 

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So, to manage expectations, this will not be anywhere near the quality of the epic that @Selbourneis treating us to nor will there be photos etc. Only getting the Wi-Fi on sea days so other days will depend on my mobile package.  I also hate using the iPad keyboard so apologies for any accidental autocorrections that creep in.
 
Saturday 24th Feb - Gatwick to Barbados
 
On the Tui flight and upgraded to PE as this trip is for Mrs DCHs birthday.

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I’ve followed a few of these types of posts in the past and always appreciate the people who take the time to do them. So I figured I’d give it a try this time in the hope that it maybe helps out or entertains even one person. Plus I enjoy long-winded and rambling story telling and I’m ready to get into cruise mode ASAP so this seems like it could be fun for me.

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Ahoy! I'm Victoria, a.k.a. LittleMissMagic, a.k.a. LMM. I've contributed quite a few photo reviews to Cruise Critic over the years, but this will be my first ever attempt at a Live review - wish me luck!
 
Funny story about how this cruise came to be. Back in July 2022, I was in Austin, visiting my sister Rachel (a.k.a. @RachLovesSteak) when somehow it came up in conversation that the best time is to book a cruise price-wise is as soon as the itineraries are released.... which led to us looking at February 2024 cruises and booking a Royal Loft Suite on a 3-night cruise on Allure of the Seas for Rachel's Bachelorette.

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Hola everyone! Currently sitting at Vancouver International Airport, waiting to meet up with my travel party and get this vacay started.
 
We’ll be heading out on the Norwegian Bliss, for the 7-day cruise of the Mexican Riviera, with stops in Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo san Lucas.

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Good morning all and how are ya?
 
Marina here, about to go on my 14th cruise tomorrow, and traveling with Mom who's going on her 16th cruise. Her & I are big on cruises, been on Royal in the Med, the Panama Canal, and Western Caribbean; also been on Norwegian and Holland and Celebrity for what its worth but let's get back to Royal here 🙂 

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Join the Bird live on a fast-paced weekend getaway on the Freedom of the Seas. When the Freedom OTS first set sail in May 2006, she was the large cruise ship in the world. In March 2020 just before the pandemic shutdown, Royal Caribbean spent $116M to amp the Freedom, updating her amenities and features to the latest in the fleet.  

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Welcome to a LIVE review of our 4-day winter getaway cruise on the Discovery out of LA. I work in education and our schools are closed for President’s Day, so this cruise fit into my work schedule perfectly - not to mention the fact that I am finally retiring this year in June 🥳 🥳, so this is a retirement celebration cruise for me!  This cruise I am sailing with a long-time college friend )I call her "E") from the East Coast. We raised some H#ll in the past and have not gotten to see each other for many years, so this should be a fun reunion/retirement trip! 🥂

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We are excited to be here on our very first Virgin cruise!  A little about us, we are DINKs hanging on to our 30s by the skin of our teeth, and have cruised most of the major US cruise lines.  Our favorite is still Princess but we have enjoyed Celebrity, Royal and Disney quite bit.  So this is going to be an interesting experience for us!

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Good morning from the Adventure of the Seas as we currently sit at port in Nassau on a 6-night cruise vacation.  I debated whether to do a live from thread as writing is definitely not one of my hidden talents but figured I would force myself to expand my horizons as they say.    We are currently on leg one of a B2B trip that has to be one of the best deals we’ve gotten since we first cruised with Royal in 1997 on Sovereign of the Seas; a cruise we won on a scratch off lottery ticket.  Sadly, we didn’t get back to cruising until around 2007 when we decided it was cheaper to take our family of four on a cruise than go to Disney another time.

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Hi y’all, this is my first attempt at a live. It’s our fourth time on Scarlet Lady and this time we had a nice surprise of a XL terrace! 

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Hello fellow cruise aficionados. Yes, it's time for itchintocruise to do a LIVE review again. 

Stay tuned for additional details.
 
In case you need some additional reading material check out my previous LIVE reviews:
https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2616173-live-hoho-horizon-and-a-bottle-of-tequila-christmas-cruise-12-23-18/
https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2717481-live-122119-itchintocruise-presents-parrotheads-on-the-panorama

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Hello, it's been sometime since my last cruise which was the Breakaway back in December of 2022 and now I'm doing two short cruises! The first is the 4 day on Carnival Radiance and then I disembark on 02/09 and head right over to the Royal Navigator of the Seas for a 3 day. Since I live in Las Vegas these are the closest ports to me. The usually cheap airfare tends to balance out the additional cruise fare these tend to run for some reason. Although with the Superb Owl in Vegas, a flight back on 02/09 was almost as much as another cruise. Serendipity prevailed and seeing the Navigator started the same time this ended, well, I had to book it.

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So as advertised we will be live for these two cruises. This is a side to different state side? Maybe? That didn’t feel like it made sense. Let me explain our odd travel plans.
 
We have many things to celebrate this first week:
 
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