First ever cruise - Oasis Western Med. 28.07.24-04.08.24

By popular demand (I am looking at you @PPPJJ-GCVAB ) I will try to blog about our first ever cruise! 

First of all sorry for any typos/autocorrects from Norwegian

As I am writing this we are 12 hours away from departure from Kristiansand towards Barcelona

About me: 

For those of you who havent "met" me yet: Nice to meet you! 

I am Chris 39 from Kristiansand,Norway (half British as well!). I usually work with marketing and I write song lyrics.

I am going on a first ever cruise together with my mom (age 63) and my 2 daughters age 9 and 10. (I am a single parent) 

The cruise:

Oasis of the seas (WHAT a ship for our virgin cruise!) Western Meditteranean. Itinerary:

Day 1 (28 of July): Barcelona

Day 2 (29 of July): Mallorca

Day 3 (30 of july): Marseille (they alternate between sea day and port day on day 3, our cruise has port day)

Day 4 (31 of July): La Spezia (with connection to Florence/Piza)

Day 5 (1 of august): Civitavecchia (Rome)- this cruise is made up of cruises from Barcelona-Barcelona and Rome-Rome, so "half" the passengers will swap on this day, so many new people to meet! 

Day 6 (2 of August): Naples 

Day 7 (3 of august):  Sea day (our only sea day of the whole cruise!)

Day 8 (4 of august): Barcelona

 

Our travel plans (we are spending 3 days in Barcelona precruise, since my daughtwrs have never been there, it will be my third Time there and my moms 7th or something) :

July 25th: departure 04:30 Kristiansand-Amsterdam-Barcelona. Arrival 10:25 

July 26: Barcelona 

July 27: Barcelona

July 28/day 1: Barcelona (embark ship, early, we have the key) 

July 29/day 2: Mallorca - Beach

July 30/day 3: stay on ship, maybe a quick outing in Marseille

July 31/day 4: we were supposed to do Florence but due to my daughter having motion sickness (2 hours bus each way) and the foretatt saying 39 degrees celsius, we are just going for a stroll in La Spezia instead

August 1/day5: Rome like in a movie with lunch (full day excursion)

August 2/day 6: Capri/Casita - my mom want to go to Capri so she is taking the ferry there, whilst me and the girls have reserved a Casita for the day

August 3/day 7: Everyone is on the ship, wonder how full ut will feel..

August 4/day 8. Fly home at 11.30 from Barcelona, arrive home in Kristiansand at 17.30.

I will try to make one post with some pictures from each day, starting with Barcelona tomorrow. 

Hope you guys want to follow me/us, and feel free to ask questions.

-C-

YIPPEE !!!  You finally made it !  SOOOOO happy to hear that you are finally getting to cruise.  I look forward to hearing all about it.

Congratulations and have a GREAT time !

31 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said:

YIPPEE !!!  You finally made it !  SOOOOO happy to hear that you are finally getting to cruise.  I look forward to hearing all about it.

Congratulations and have a GREAT time !

Thank you! Well, dont jynx it , still a few days until we are onboard, but fingers crossed. But yes, thabks for all the help. This will be so good! 

Have an awesome cruise filled with amazing memories.

hooray!!

what a fantastic trip this will be for you and your girls!! (and your mom )

Cheers!  We will be there too! We will be coming from Northern California, near the Golden Gate.  We also reserved a Casita, not sure yet if we will keep the reservations.  This will be the first cruise for our two kids, ages 13 and 16. They now say they want to see it all, every port, very town, every pizza and gelato there is to me had along with the culture and history.  BUT the heat might have something to say about it!  Anyway, we will be on the look out.  We have the Key as well and Anytime dining.