Just Booked NCL Spirit - Europe

[rhinomike]

Well I have been busy today. Just booked first class airfare for me, my wife and our 4 boys. I also booked us 2 cabins on the Spirit out of Barcelona. We will do the 2 week cruise and spend 2 additional weeks sightseeing all over Europe. 1 month total. We want to see it all. I hope we don't get home sick. We have never been gone more than 2 weeks. I hope we aren't exhausted.

[hladygirl]

Well I have been busy today. Just booked first class airfare for me, my wife and our 4 boys. I also booked us 2 cabins on the Spirit out of Barcelona. We will do the 2 week cruise and spend 2 additional weeks sightseeing all over Europe. 1 month total. We want to see it all. I hope we don't get home sick. We have never been gone more than 2 weeks. I hope we aren't exhausted.

 

You will love the spirit! It is a smaller ship without any of the rock climbing, slides etc. it is beautiful though and the layout and crew are awesome. My favorite ship. Wish she would come back to the U.S.!

[ttnc4me]

Well I have been busy today. Just booked first class airfare for me, my wife and our 4 boys. I also booked us 2 cabins on the Spirit out of Barcelona. We will do the 2 week cruise and spend 2 additional weeks sightseeing all over Europe. 1 month total. We want to see it all. I hope we don't get home sick. We have never been gone more than 2 weeks. I hope we aren't exhausted.

For us, it was a trip of a lifetime. Notice I said trip and not vacation. You are going, going, going in the best of ways.

 

You will see it all!

You will be exhausted!

You will absolutely love it!!

[Cruisenmike711]

I've been looking at booking the Spirit for January '15 to the Canary Islands. Looks wonderful. Congrats to you!

[steph7021]

Going on this cruise in June! Can't wait. We are staying pre cruise outside of Malaga!

[rhinomike]

Going on this cruise in June! Can't wait. We are staying pre cruise outside of Malaga!

 

We depart June 11th.

[wilson2579]

I am on the Spirit in 4 weeks time from Barcelona. Never sailed with NCL before so looking forward to trying something different.:cool:

[steph7021]

We depart June 11th.

 

Us too :) are you on the roll call?

[computerworks]

You will love the spirit! It is a smaller ship without any of the rock climbing, slides etc. it is beautiful though and the layout and crew are awesome. My favorite ship. Wish she would come back to the U.S.!

 

I'll second that! The Spirit is my favorite ship; we sailed the Canary Islands last year and it was an amazing voyage.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1740735

 

I love to share my photo tour of the Spirit... I try to explain what the mystique about that ship is...and why so many people love her. To me, it is a ship that fits 'just-right.' ;)

[mikewrit]

What a terrific photo tour! Whets our appetite for the Spirit, in which we are booked to sail the Med more than a year from now. Would have liked to see a couple shots of the main dining rooms, but the interiors look more to our taste than the pink of Carnival Splendor, on which we did our most recent cruise because it was an economical way to sail around South America. We are glad to be going back to the Norwegian way.

[puddles99]

This definitely sounds like the trip of a lifetime & we hope to do something similar once our girls get a little older. I look forward to reading about your planning & adventures in the months ahead!

[milolii]

Good for you, we did something similar this year as we spent a week in London pre cruise and then a day in Venice and Barcelona each. We were gone about 3 and a half weeks. After the week in London, we were glad to get on the Spirit and enjoy the first 2 sea days. It is an amazing ship with amazing ports. I posted a review in the review section as well as on the NCL board, you can take a look. Have fun planning. Be sure and join your roll call for the cruise. We did and had a awesome time. It also help us form private tours and saved money.

 

 

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[zazou]

We did something similar last year.

 

Like you, we stayed 4 weeks in Europe. We stayed 5 days in Rome, 2 days in Venise before boarding the Spirit with my family. After that we stayed 7 days in Spain.

 

You will love the itinerary, it's magical.

 

A tip: if you can manage to see Rome in your land part instead of the 1 day cruise, I would recommend that to you. Too much to see in 1 day.

 

I think that you should try to pace yourself a bit on the land part as we didn't and we were exhausted on the last 3 days. We rent apartments and loved that we had much space and rooms and were able to eat breakfast without having to go to a restaurant. :-)

 

If you want to see some pictures I've took in ports, you can look it here under Europe and Asie (Asia): http://isabellecyr.zenfolio.com/

 

you can contact me if you need more information

[ladytravlr2]

NCL Spirit is a beautiful ship. The pool area is gorgeous...no water slide to muck up the view! The décor around the ship is very attractive. It's a smaller ship but by far one of my favorites so far. Enjoy the ship and your trip!