"sea Days Only Cruise"

[Marcia&Bob]

I Can't Get Enough Sea Days When Cruising. I Wish That A Cruise Line Would Come Up With A 10 Or 11 Days "sea Days Only Cruise". They Have No Where Cruises, But They Are Not Long Enough. A 10 Day Cruise To A Private Island Only Would Work For Me. No Port Charges If They Have This Type Of Cruise.

 

Bob

[PRINSENDAM]

I Can't Get Enough Sea Days When Cruising. I Wish That A Cruise Line Would Come Up With A 10 Or 11 Days "sea Days Only Cruise".

Bob

 

 

Bob,

 

Works for me too!

 

The best idea is you like the sea days.... more than just a couple and in a row... is to do a transatlantic crossing to/from Lauderdale to Europe on something like.... PRINSENDAM. You get several sea days.

 

Stephen

[grannynurse]

When we did our transatlantic crossings from NY and Boston we averaged 6-7 at sea days on each leg. On the B2B due to weather we added 2 sea days, and on the eastbound we added one having missed Guernsey due to high winds and rain. So eastbound we had 7 days at sea, and on the B2B we had 17 days at sea.

 

I agree, I love the days without port stops.

 

The roundtrip from san Diego hawaii cruises have 4-5 days at sea each way.

 

GN

[babyher]

I am with you ...I love sea days.

 

My wife and I have toyed with the idea of flying to London and spending a week or so because she loved it there and would love to go back and I would love to see it , and then sailing back home on the QM2 . I think thats like 6 days at sea. "Love it!!!!!!!!!!:)"

 

On my recent cruise due to weather we had our stop in Costa Maya changed to a sea day. You didn't hear me complain *LOL*

[Joanandjoe]

Quite a few of the transatlantic repositioning cruises are sea days only. Examples for 2006 on Windstar and Radisson (but other lines do this as well):

 

Windstar: (all 14 days except 13 days for 11/26 Wind Surf)

4/8 Wind Spirit St. Thomas to Lisbon $1349

4/9 Wind Surf Barbados to Lisbon $1349

11/11 Wind Star Lisbon to Barbados $1599

11/18 Wind Spirit Lisbon to St. Thomas $1349

11/26 Wind Surf Lisbon to Barbados $1399

 

Radisson 7 Seas - all eight day theme cruises. Both ships are all suites. Voyager is 100% balconies, Navigator 85% balconies.

 

4/21 7 Seas Navigator Ft. Lauderdale to Funchal, Madeira, Theater theme, $1748

4/28 7 Seas Voyager Same itinerary, jazz theme $2198

11/5 Navigator Funchal to Ft. Lauderdale, chamber music theme, $1848

11/12 Voyager, same itinerary, jazz theme, $2198

 

Oceanea may also do these nonstop (or one stop) transatlantic cruises. Watch the airfare on these cruiises, since it may be almost as much as the cruise cost. LOL.

[Druke I]

Many of the trans-Atlantics and some of the trans-Pacifics have many sea days and few port days.

 

Love 'em!

 

We do have a 25 night cruise with 15 sea days total coming up on Oceania's Nautica, Istanbul to Signapore, via the Suez, 11-06.

[PRINSENDAM]

I am with you ...I love sea days.

 

.... flying to London .... and then sailing back home on the QM2 . I think thats like 6 days at sea. "Love it!!!!!!!!!!:)"

 

*LOL*

 

 

 

QM2 :eek: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

;)

 

Actually the QM2 crossing is five days... but six nights on board.

 

Stephen

[RevNeal]

Another way to get a lot of sea days on a cruise is to do the 15-day round trip to Hawaii out of San Diego.

 

5-days at sea going

5-days in the islands

5-days at sea returing to San Diego

 

10 days at sea, total. 2/3 of days on this cruise are Sea Days

It's hard to beat that!

 

And .... Cruise Critics has a Group Cruise scheduled on one of these wonderful itineraries!

 

The HAL CC-Group Cruise to Hawaii

"The Voyage of the Spammed"

Aboard the ms Zaandam

Saturday October 7, 2006 - Sunday October 22, 2006

Round Trip out of San Diego, CA

 

For Information on how to book, go to:

HAL CC-Group Cruise to Hawaii Page

or: http://www.cruisecritic.com/interests/groups.cfm?ID=71



 

 

 

You are now returned to our regularly scheduled program.

[kryos]

The best idea is you like the sea days.... more than just a couple and in a row... is to do a transatlantic crossing to/from Lauderdale to Europe on something like.... PRINSENDAM. You get several sea days.

He can try the cruise I'm doing next month as well ... 30-day Hawaii/South Pacific ... something like 16 days total at sea. Four in a row going out, six in a row coming back ... and a couple of two-dayers in between different island groups.

 

Can't wait!

 

I'm with the OP ... nothing like sea days. But I do like them interspersed with some ports too. I can't stand a cruise that is port after port ... each and every day. The environment on the ship then is totally different.

 

Blue skies ...

 

--rita

[geoherb]

I wish we could take longer cruises. Our upcoming 10-night Maasdam cruise (Dec. 17) will be our longest one yet, beating last year's 9-night cruise on Celebrity, also at Christmas.

 

One thing we learned when taking last year's cruise is that treating one of the port days as a sea day is almost as enjoyable. We had a nearly empty ship most of the day. It's the only day we went to the outdoor pool for a long period of time. On sea days, it was too crowded and had too many kids being kids.

[Joanandjoe]

I'm with the OP ... nothing like sea days. But I do like them interspersed with some ports too. I can't stand a cruise that is port after port ... each and every day. The environment on the ship then is totally different. --rita

 

Rita, your comment about cruises that are too port intensive reminds us of a recent converstion with relatives, who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty. This past summer they took a Med. cruise on RCCL, which had a port every day. Because this was a megaship, most ports were an hour or more from where they wanted to go: Livorno for Florence, Civittavecchia for Rome, etc. When they were booking we said: "remember to take it easy, or you'll end up exhausted instead of relaxed". They ignored our advice, and took long excursions everywhere. Their comment when they got back: "We hate cruising: it's more like work than a vacation!" LOL!

 

Give us a nice mix of sea days and port days and we'll be happy. BTW, after our prior posting we looked up Oceanea. They have transatlantics with only one port stop enroute, and some long Pacific cruises with lots of sea days. Of course, if you have lots of time and money you can take the long voyages on Proinsendam and Amstedam (or on many cruise lines), which also have oodles of sea days.

[Bill S]

I love sea days, too. We had 5 straight sea days on our SA/Antarctica cruise -- it was wonderful!

Our next HAL cruise is a 16-day, Rome to NY cruise with 7 sea days, 4 of them in row, between Azores and Bermuda--can hardly wait!

[kryos]

Of course, if you have lots of time and money you can take the long voyages on Proinsendam and Amstedam (or on many cruise lines), which also have oodles of sea days.

Sadly, I don't have either. This 30-dayer would be about my max in terms of length. I barely had enough vacation time to cover it ... not to mention money. :)

 

I would love to sail on one of the Prisendam's extended voyages, but sadly wouldn't be able to consider it before retirement ... and that's at least a good 15 years or so off. :(

 

Sucks having to work for a living. :(

 

Blue skies ...

 

--rita

[RuthC]

A 10- or 11-day cruise to nowhere sounds perfect, as long as there's one or two days of scenic cruising. A 5-day crossing just isn't enough! I agree.:)

The longest scheduled sea cruise I ever took was 7 days from Los Angeles to Nuka Hiva on my South Pacific cruise. I think we had that port just to break it up! The tenders were full coming back by 10:00 AM! :eek:

My personal best was 8 days in a row at sea on the final voyage of the ss Rotterdam:) . There was a succession of hurricanes as we sailed down the left coast and we kept missing ports. Trouble was my husband was to have joined the ship in one of those missed ports. :( He even missed the ship-wide open-bar party the captain gave to keep the natives from getting restless. :mad:

Sure. Find that 10- or 11-day sea cruise and I'm there.

[imsulin2]

I'm also a self-admitted sea day afficiando, and this is the third reason why I booked the 15-nt Zaandam to Hawaii next Oct! (The first reason is because it's HAL, and the second reason is because RevNeal is the Group Leader!:) ) I really do love sea days, and would love to do an all-sea day cruise in the Caribbean, with only one stop - at HMC.!

[babyher]

10 or 11 days at sea with no place to go except the lido, the dining room, the pool, the showroom , the casino, and the bar :)

 

Heaven.....absolute heaven :)

 

My wife would go nuts on a cruise that long with no stops , so if such a cruise comes up and you need a cabinmate just let me know *LOL*:)

[HeatherInFlorida]

Ah, how I love sea days ... it's really the only reason we continue to cruise since there are few ports we have not visited (except for far off exotic ones that we sadly cannot afford the time or money to cruise to:( ).

 

I choose our cruises based on the most sea days. But the transatlantic crossing won't work for me since I worry about horrendously high seas. I don't mind rough, but when it gets much above 18 ft., I'm not good with it.

 

So for me a perfect cruise would be out there on the magnificent Caribbean sea with a stop or 2 at Half Moon Cay or any other beach with absolutely nothing but sea, sand and a palm or two.

[AirGorilla]

Ah, how I love sea days ... it's really the only reason we continue to cruise since there are few ports we have not visited (except for far off exotic ones that we sadly cannot afford the time or money to cruise to:( ).

 

I choose our cruises based on the most sea days. But the transatlantic crossing won't work for me since I worry about horrendously high seas. I don't mind rough, but when it gets much above 18 ft., I'm not good with it.

 

So for me a perfect cruise would be out there on the magnificent Caribbean sea with a stop or 2 at Half Moon Cay or any other beach with absolutely nothing but sea, sand and a palm or two.

 

I've heard that the crossings that transit the

Southern route, such as Spain to Florida (instead of England to NYC) have a better chance of good weather and seas. This is not based upon personal experience, but on reading some of the other boards on CC, such as Crystal, Seabourn and Silversea.

 

If we decided to try a crossing, it would be the Southern route, for sure!!

[kakalina]

We just got back from 45 days at sea! Talk about your wonderful, relaxing sea days. I was so pampered and now they expect me to make my own bed!! How disgusting. So, I booked another 30 days to Hawaii and the South Pacific with a total of 15 sea days.. Now if only it gets rough enough to rock us to sleep at night ( my favorite part of a cruise)

[PRINSENDAM]

Back in 1973 I was appointed Third Officer to the 145,000 dwt OBO (oil/bulk/ore) carrier "AVON BRIDGE".

 

I joined the ship in Fos... near Marsellies on 23rd July. She was moored at the bouys at the Fos refinery discharging 'Arabian Light' crude oil.

 

We sailed the next day bound for Ras Tannurah in Saudi Arabia (Persian Gulf). On the way we called Cape Town and then Durban. These were stops outside the port where we took on stores via helicopter.

 

At Ras Tannurah Sea Island we load a full cargo of crude for Kaoashuing in Taiwan.

 

At Taiwan we discharged at the "sea buoy"... about five miles ofshore, pumping our carho ashore via undersea pipes.

 

Fraom there we proceeded back to Ras Tannurah where we loaded another cargo for Italy. Sailing around Cape of Good Hope we came up to Savona for part discharge then went to Augusta in Sicily. At Augusta we went 'off hire' for 24 hours to carry out urgent boiler cleaning.

 

From Augusta we proceeded all the way back to the Gulf. We called at Ras Tannurah to load bunkers then went up to Khawr Al Amaya Sea Island to load back for Italy. On the way back we called at Cape Town for stores by helicopter. We arrived in Trieste for discharge and I was paid off the next day.... 14th February 1974.

 

In all that time.... 205 days we were allowed shore leave ONCE!!!!! That was in Augusta and I was able to get away for about four hours.

 

Most of our voyages to and from the Gulf lasted around six weeks. Port time was usually around 48 hours but most of the time we were berthed at the sea buoys or at a Sea Island where there was no opportunity to get ashore or have contact with the land. We got mail but infrequently. Once in a while we even got to change our movies. We were allowed three each month but if we were unable change them we just missed out.

The food was good, no problems there. We were all British officers with a Hong Kong Chinese crew... about 50 of us... and one female... Alice who was the Junior Radio Officer... 18 years old former beauty queen...Miss Nantwich!!!!! I had my 21st birthday on board.... heading south from the Persian Gulf. Alice BTW... ended up getting married to Sandy, the Second Officer. Still married I believe. There was an 'incident' one night... something to do with the Alice and the Captain..... Captain Rodney Megran, aka Captain Migraine or Rodney 100%. The officers wanted to know if captain wore epaulettes on his pyjamas. ,-)

 

 

But as far as long sea voyages are concerned... I still love them!

 

Stephen

[cdkempton]

We love sea days. We took the trans-atlantic cruise from Barcelona to FLL then on to L.A. We did 4 ports in Spain/Portugal then 6 beautiful, calm days at sea until we docked in Martinique. Out of 32 days total, there were 18 sea days. What a lovely way to relax. Aaaaaaah. ;)

Colette