Cruise Junky

See, I'm not really sure why folks would choose a vacation venue that doesn't suit their dress requirements!

Did I miss the news release? did attending formal nights become mandatory?

I just asked my husband..he said, suits, jackets, ties just don't fit with his state of mind being on vacation which is why we've taken to skipping formal nights altogether.

How do I keep the weight down? Co-ordinate everything and lightweight fabrics. For trips of a week, I'm not so strict, but anything longer, tops must go with multiple bottoms and the other way around. We live by the saying that if you pack it, you deal with it. Lugging dead weight around isn't my idea of fun. I also think I dress differently from some of the packers I know. I have a friend and everything is "outfits"..this top goes with these pants and this jacket. And she'll end up taking 20 outfits. I'm much more of a mix and match girl.

For our upcoming trip to France, I'll have access to laundry at the start of week 3 - that will definitely play a role in my packing. We also have an apartment booked on the 4th floor, no elevators. I would like to be able to leave luggage in the car between destinations and it's can't be in sight. Tons of reasons not to overpack!!

He was on Sapphire Mexican Riviera in October.

It's about a 2 hour 45 minute drive to Mont St. Michel. We're actually doing this on a land trip in June but we've decided to break up our 5 days in Normandy/Brittany to be 3 in Honfleur and 2 in St. Malo as we don't have to do that drive twice in one day! But if you're only there for the one day go for it. Mont St. Michel for me is bucket list :)

Bermuda if I have to be on the ship in one port for four days.

Bermuda is a country, not a port and there's plenty to keep you busy for weeks never mind 4 days.

We will be in Vancouver on September 21st. Is there a London Drugs near the port or easily accessible by the "hop on hop off" bus? You guys have piqued my curiosity and I am now inclined to purchase Tim Tams.

I've seen them at Urban Fare in Vancouver which is closer to the port. London Drugs is a bit of hike, but not sure where the Hop on/off bus goes. It's on the corner of Seymour and Georgia.

I actually saw them in a Vancouver supermarket the other day and they weren't in the "Import" section. Hopefully they'll become a staple.

I still don't understand because we took a repo cruise last Fall from Boston and went to the caribbean and then ended in Miami. Why can't we go from Seattle to Vancouver, Canada and continue on to Victoria,Canada and Astoria, Oregon, San Francisco, and finish in LA?

 

I thought that some Alaska cruises start in Seattle and go to Canada before going to Alaska.

 

I am still confused. Perhaps I should read the regulations and then I will understand.

If you did Boston to Miami via the Caribbean, you would have hit a foreign distant port. Vancouver, Victoria are not foreign distant ports. The Seattle one's do a return to Seattle which is fine, its going from one us port to another.

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We are booked on NCL Star sailing from Vancouver to LA. We found out that the Star will be doing a 1 night sailing from Seattle the day before. We wanted to book our cruise starting in Seattle but somebody posted that you can't sail the same cruiselines from Seattle to Vancouver and then take the repositioning crusie we are taking to LA.

 

We booked the Princess ship for their 1 night cruise to Vancouver and then will transfer over to the NCL Star. We were told that as long as we are sailing on different cruiselines that the Jones Act is not a problem.

 

Please let me know if this is correct.

That is correct, but it's not the Jones Act, the the Passenger Vessel Services Act.

Sweden is in the EU, this shouldn't be a problem at all. Contact the cruise line directly to make arrangements.

I want to go everywhere, see everything, and experience all the world has to offer. There is a hierachy of countries, but I'm working my way through the continents and if I stay healthy, I hope to go everywhere. I just don't understand those people who have countries they don't want to visit. For me, that's very closed minded.

I'm with you!!!

And they have great prices.

Very good prices! Now if only I'd actually get them set in something ;)

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my brother will not cruise because hes seen 2 many movies.

God, I hope Speed 2 wasn't one of them ;)

My girlfriend refuses to step foot on a cruise ship as she's scared to death of rouge waves :eek:

IThat merely shows a closed mind: the idea that someone cannot know themselves well enough to know what they would and wouldn't like.

 

Some folks know they would not like a cruise because they know themselves well enough to know this. Just because you disagree and they resist the prodding to 'admit they are wrong' does not mean they 'hate' anything or that they are in anyway incompetent or stupid.

Thank you! I also post on the Slowtravel board and I assure you, they don't spend their time talking about how incompetent and stupid cruisers are so I don't know why there is a need here.

ps..hot air ballooning is fun ;)

And sometimes that is just what the doctor ordered. Get on a floating hotel, drift around the sea, eat too much, glimpse pretty places, and veg out. Sounds really really good right now!

Exactly!! Back a number of years ago we were all set to go to Europe for a couple of weeks, I had just finished a large project that i'd been travelling for and put in huge amount of hours... I just couldn't face it, we cancelled and booked the 11 day circle the caribbean cruise. Just needed to veg.

We have to realize that there are a lot of independent travellers out there. They look at cruising as a lazy vacation, one that doesn't require any planning, any input, you just go where the cruise goes and everything is taken care of. We like cruising and land trips. I love to cruise to an area for the first time, get a taste and then go back and really spend time in a specific area, living like a local. Sometimes cruising is stictly for fun and for a getaway and really has nothing to do with travel, you just want sun and sand. To each his own!

Personally, I'd take the aft one. We were recently in C703 and absolutely loved the location. You're right by the back stairwell for the aft pool, the Horizon Court, etc. We found we never really did much at the front of the ship.

Much cheaper on the ships. I wear Gucci (the original) and it's about $95 in Canada, even at the duty free, it's around $80, I still have one in it's box from our last trip and it was $54 on the ship....however, I did find one at Ross in Hawaii for $29.99 so deals can be better on land if you luck out.

I don't think we're helping the problem. Look how many of us have countdown clocks, pictures by our names and cute little pictures in our posts - that has to be adding a ton to the volume.

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