gfamily46

Well I am back from my first cruise and had a wonderful time. I wanted to share two things here that I don't think have been mentioned at all.

 

#1: GOOGLE DRIVE. Any vacation I take, I have a document on Google Drive where I do all my trip planning. Information (including phone and confirmation #s) about my Hotel, Flight, the area I may be staying in, points of interest there, ship reservation info, shore excursions I booked, schedule/events for certain days, etc. All in one place. What's also cool is before going on the cruise you can make it available offline and link it to the home screen of your phone. That way even when you're in the middle of the ocean you still have access to all the information you need. I also do this with my packing list. And when leaving the hotel or ship, I go through that packing list again to make sure I have everything. Started doing this a few years ago and since have never once left something behind at a hotel.

 

#2. Do a search for cruise luggage tag holders. You can get them sized specifically for most cruise lines, and they do a good job of protecting the paper tags the lines give you. No need to have the tags laminated.

Thanks for the info on Google Drive. I keep my stuff in Dropbox and I found that they have the Offline feature as well. That will make things so much easier!