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I love boats and have spent a large part of my life on the water. However, being packed like sardines in a can doesn't sound like my idea of a fun time.
We love cruises. Been on many. Have taken two transatlantic cruises also. Loved it.
Next month we board in Vancouver and heading to Hawaii. Should be a great cruise.
Next month we board in Vancouver and heading to Hawaii. Should be a great cruise.
The Engineering Tour is not cheap but you get to go into the engine room and they explain how the computerized ballast system works. I was fascinated by the technology.
We were on one of the smaller boats for a quick 3 or 4 day cruise in February once. The Caribbean is windy during the winter. We felt the boat moving quite a bit. The bigger boats don’t have a problem in the wind.
We talked my brother and SIL into going with us about 6 years ago. After a couple days of complete relaxation, my brother looks at me and said ‘ok, I get it now’ and he went back to sipping his drink. He and my SIL are on an Alaska cruise right now.
I went on that my first cruise. Saw everything except the engine rooms (cruise ships work like locomotives: they have diesel run generators and the water jets are done with electric motors). One of the cool things (though the room stank lol) was that all the food left on plates is collected, ground up and put overboard as chum for the water life. Also, they have a machine that they feed wet sheets into and it not only dries, but folds the sheets in under 3 seconds.
If you go on a cruise and are interested in how they run these floating small cities, I highly recommend this excursion.
We’ve done 5, the first was to the Bahamas as last minute passengers. We had to sail through a tropical storm. Remember looking out the porthole seeing green water, then the wave would pass and there would be sky once again. Being midship at the bar it didn’t seem that bad but those waves had to be 20’ to reach that porthole.
One to the carribean that was hot as heck and the rest to Alaska which were all incredible.
For anyone thinking about an Alaskan cruise, don’t do the round trip from Seattle. Very little time in ports of call.
Fly to Anchorage making sure your on the right side of the aircraft coming into Anchorage. (You get to see 5 glaciers)
Explore Anchorage and take the Alaska railway train to Seward to board your ship. The train runs about 30 mph and is all huge glass windows. Takes about three hours and there is a dining car for lunch that was very tasty.
Lots of animal sightings along the way.
When making your reservations get a room with a balcony on the left side of the ship. On that side during the trip South, your always looking inland at the mountains and coastal waters. The right side of the ship looks out at open seas mostly until you get to the intercostal waterways.
Ports of call generally last all day vs just a couple of hours like on the round trip sails.
The next may be a cruise in the Mediterranean. We can fly there free so it’s just the cost of the cruise.
One to the carribean that was hot as heck and the rest to Alaska which were all incredible.
For anyone thinking about an Alaskan cruise, don’t do the round trip from Seattle. Very little time in ports of call.
Fly to Anchorage making sure your on the right side of the aircraft coming into Anchorage. (You get to see 5 glaciers)
Explore Anchorage and take the Alaska railway train to Seward to board your ship. The train runs about 30 mph and is all huge glass windows. Takes about three hours and there is a dining car for lunch that was very tasty.
Lots of animal sightings along the way.
When making your reservations get a room with a balcony on the left side of the ship. On that side during the trip South, your always looking inland at the mountains and coastal waters. The right side of the ship looks out at open seas mostly until you get to the intercostal waterways.
Ports of call generally last all day vs just a couple of hours like on the round trip sails.
The next may be a cruise in the Mediterranean. We can fly there free so it’s just the cost of the cruise.
Anyone do a Windjammer Cruise? I think it's named something else now but it's a schooner type boat(very small compared to a cruise liner) where you can help on deck or lay out and be lazy? We've done one cruise and it wasn't that bad BUT mostly because someone else paid and they booked a suite with 2 bed/bath and deck on the back watching the wake(or a port when we depart).
Thought we might consider one like this.
https://www.islandwindjammers.com/
Thought we might consider one like this.
https://www.islandwindjammers.com/
