Random thoughts from the sea
After a year off the seas, I’m off on another cruise! Today I am setting sail on the Emerald Princess from Galveston for a week of sailing to Cozumel, Costa Maya and Belize. I hadn’t planned a January cruise. Several months ago my two sisters, my mother and I signed
Continue readingOne of the things I like about cruising is meeting new people. If you are on a weeklong cruise with your family, you may not have much opportunity to make more than a passing acquaintance. But when I am on a longer cruise or cruising alone I meet lots of
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Days 17-19 – At Sea in the Mediterranean May 7-9, 2013 One of my observations from the first two weeks of this cruise has been that writing this journal has taken much more time than I thought it would. For the second half of the cruise,
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 16 – Barcelona May 6, 2013 Today all but about 900 passengers were leaving the ship, so I wasn’t in a huge hurry to deal with the crowds. After another breakfast in the Windjammer, I packed away the last few things in my suitcase, leaving out
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 15 – Alicante, Spain May 5, 2013 Again, I was in no rush to get going in the morning, so by the time I had breakfast and packed for the day ashore, it was probably 9:30 am when I left the ship and caught the
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 14 – Gibraltar May 4, 2013 I had forgotten to change the time on my iPhone the night before, so when I woke up I thought it was 6 and not 7 and went back to sleep. No worries – I didn’t have any schedule to
Continue readingDear Cruise Diary Day 13 – At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean May 3, 2013 I guessed 8 am was the new 6 am, at least for me in the morning. I went to dinner later than normal (8:30 or later), stayed up later and thus slept later. I
Continue readingSo you’ve chosen which category of cabin – now where do you want to be on the ship: low or high deck; forward, midship or aft? The closer to the middle and the lower the deck, the less movement there is on the ship. With stabilizers, today’s cruise ships really
Continue readingI’ve sailed a couple of times in balcony cabins – once when my friend Ginzy insisted, and another time when we got a good deal on a 14-day Caribbean cruise. I had been to every one of the 10 ports we visited, so I knew I would enjoy staying on
Continue readingThe question of which cabin to choose on a cruise ship is mostly personal preference – after all, the cruise lines do seem to fill all the cabins, don’t they? I have stayed (twice) in the very bottom rung, and visited my parents’ cabin once near the top. Of course
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