To Bed Late? Up Early?

[LuCruise]

Poor sleeper here, also. I do my best sleeping from around 5 am to 9 am. I can go to bed at 11 pm and still not sleep a wink until after 4 am. I've tried sleeping pills of all sorts, and they do put me to sleep, but they make me feel icky the next day. Meditation, melatonin, listening to white noise, music....you name it, I've tried it.

 

Now....the one and only thing that puts me to sleep with any regularity? Cruising!! I'm not kidding, I sleep so much on cruise ships it's crazy. I am sure it's the movement of the ship, and I have very slight motion sickness (it's bad on choppy, small boats and in cars) and I guess my mind's defense is to sleep through the motion sickness (it's what I would do in the car when I was young). On a ship, I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime.

 

I need to figure out how to get a doctor's prescription for cruising and get my insurance to pay for it?!?! :D

 

I like your last statement. :D

 

Maybe it's because you are in vacation mode and totally relaxed while on a cruise (compared with everyday stressful like).

[Desertbelle]

I like your last statement. :D

 

Maybe it's because you are in vacation mode and totally relaxed while on a cruise (compared with everyday stressful like).

That seems likely. I need to be permanently on vacation, it's the only way!!

[Blondynka]

We try and make the most of our vacation, we stay up late most night and try and get up in time to catch breakfast. There are of course exceptions... On our last cruise we stayed up to 3 or 4 a few nights so we didn't get up until after 10 the next day. All worth it!

[kcool]

Not much of a night person anymore, so 11 or 12 to bed and 8 or 9 up in morning

[ckrobyn]

Did you know that I play piano? Indy has one up in the game room in the Viking Crown. I played pretty much every day when I was aboard. And, yes, I sing too.:p

 

Are you also in training as a Magician? You seem to disappear all the time :rolleyes: How am I supposed to stalk you properly?

[Paulette3028]

For me cruises are like 'Adult Camp'. At home can't stay up past 11pm, often asleep before then....always up early; on a cruise stay up well past 11pm, well past midnight often seeing 1am....and still up early. Cramming in as much as I can....and the better the cruise director staff is with the planning and execution of the activities the more I love it. I want to come home and NEED a vacation from my vacation....then the cruise was a huge success.

 

Thank you Royal for making it happen.

[Ocean Boy]

Are you also in training as a Magician? You seem to disappear all the time :rolleyes: How am I supposed to stalk you properly?

 

When you are on Indy go up to the card room in the Crown, take a look at the piano, and you will know that you and I have been in exactly the same place.... just not at the same time.:(

Edited September 21, 2015 by Ocean Boy

[NJcruisenewbie]

I'm a morning person so I get up early whether I've been up late the night before or not.

 

On a cruise I'm usually up by 6am, which is actually late compared to when I get up at home. I go workout, shower and get coffee. Then I'll walk around inside and outside until my family is up.

[bigque]

I stay up late and then up early and go out and watch the sunrise! :cool:

[AlexanderBeetle]

All these varied answers do nothing except make me want to get on a ship!

[CaribbeanCrush]

It depends on what is going on in the evening and if we are cruising with others we tend to stay up later. Regardless, we are up early ready to get off the ship for excursions or just exploring, or breakfast on the balcony.

[ckrobyn]

When you are on Indy go up to the card room in the Crown, take a look at the piano, and you will know that you and I have been in exactly the same place.... just not at the same time.:(

 

***Sigh***

 

Strangers in the night.....:rolleyes:

[navybankerteacher]

We can't burn the candle at both ends the way we once could! :o... :D

 

Now, we stay up as late as we wish and don't get up until we wish.

No longer do we book early shore excursions.

 

LuLu

 

The secret to having it all is to crank in a little nap time somewhere between getting up early and staying up late.

[kike368]

Dance and drink until 3AM... Up at 8AM, Windjammer by 8:30 and pool by 9:00! Sometimes we nap from 3-4PM.

 

There you go, we will close the casino most nights and the DW apparently, needs a very specific chair on the upper deck at the pool. She hates chair hoarders and refuses to become one so she will be out there bright and early to claim it and defend it for the rest of the day. Me personally I don't need to be out there until the sky bar opens at 10! Lol

Edited September 21, 2015 by kike368

[Paulette3028]

Dance and drink until 3AM... Up at 8AM, Windjammer by 8:30 and pool by 9:00! Sometimes we nap from 3-4PM.

 

Yes, napping highly suggested....to keep those feet going until the early morning hours!!!!

[biker@sea]

THe CABIN mater's .

 

At home I'm up with a coffee in hand @ daybreak to wake up the Chicken's ( no rooster ).

 

Same way on the ship, one hint of daylight I can not sleep.:eek:

 

INSIDE CABIN call me for lunch. :)

[mtebor]

my routine doesn't change much when I am on vacation. It has been a while since I set an alarm clock for work. My body just wakes up around 4-4:15 am everyday.

 

Unfortunately that means that I am not up past 10pm very often.

[KARTI1955]

Poor sleeper here, also. I do my best sleeping from around 5 am to 9 am. I can go to bed at 11 pm and still not sleep a wink until after 4 am. I've tried sleeping pills of all sorts, and they do put me to sleep, but they make me feel icky the next day. Meditation, melatonin, listening to white noise, music....you name it, I've tried it.

 

Now....the one and only thing that puts me to sleep with any regularity? Cruising!! I'm not kidding, I sleep so much on cruise ships it's crazy. I am sure it's the movement of the ship, and I have very slight motion sickness (it's bad on choppy, small boats and in cars) and I guess my mind's defense is to sleep through the motion sickness (it's what I would do in the car when I was young). On a ship, I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime.

 

I need to figure out how to get a doctor's prescription for cruising and get my insurance to pay for it?!?! :D

 

Ditto to this! I can't sleep worth a darn at home but when I am on a cruise I sleep like a baby. I stay up late and get up early but the sleep I get is the best.

[Nebr.cruiser]

We're usually back to our room by 11 or so but stay up later--tv or reading--just like we do at home.

 

We like to sleep in a bit unless we have an early excursion. On Transatlantics with lots of sea days we tend to sleep later and later--almost missed breakfast once! Oh, the horror.

[beettruck]

usually sleep in till 6:30am, try to leave the cabin without disturbing the DW

go to the back of the ship and have morning coffee as it pulls into port, have my first ahem light breakfast, then wait for the DW to find me at 8am for the next breakfast, head to the beach by 9:30 back by 3pm, take a nap before dinner, in bed by 10pm and repeat the next day

[tbmrt]

Our routine:

 

I get up at around 4:30am. Head to balcony if weather cooperates with my Ship's daily paperwork, kindle and small clip-on reading light. Review plan for the day.

 

As soon as coffee is available, I head down to get some in my insulated cup and head back to the balcony for a short while before sunrise.

 

Grab a little snack at buffet and more coffee.

 

Walk the upper decks and enjoy the sunrise.

 

Stop back to buffet to get DH's coffee.

 

Wake DH up around 7am or so. Enjoy breakfast on the balcony that was ordered the night before.

 

If an excursion day, we head out as soon as possible. If a sea day, we'll do some pool and daytime activities.

 

When we return from excursion or around 4pm on a sea day, we stop at the buffet and bar for wine and snacks to enjoy on the balcony.

 

Go to martini bar for an hour or so before dinner (take the anytime/select dining plan).

 

Take in a show or deck party and if energy permits, go dancing afterward.

 

Would love to stay up for some of the late night comedy shows, etc., but usually just can't stay awake that late.