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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-

Hello! I'm new to this forum. I've got plans to take a 5-day Caribbean cruise with my grandmother on December '22 aboard Voyager Of The Seas, this would be our first time traveling by ourselves (we usually go with seasoned travelers but they've all refused to go because of the pandemic) so we're kind of on our own and I have some questions that I'd like to list out, hopefully I'll get some answers to appease my nervousness. Thank you in advanced. How does an onboard spending account work? Is $400 for the entire trip enough or should I deposit more? Should I use cash to open the onboard spending account? Are drink packages worth it despite the price? How much cash should I bring to spend onshore? Any tips and tricks for a first time traveler to be well prepared will also be greatly appreciated. I'm very excited and nervous for this trip!

My wife and I will be leaving on our first cruise on March 21st-28th. We leave out of New Orleans and we will be aboard Majesty. Does anyone have any tips they would like to share? anything from what you wish you knew before your first cruise, if you've been on majesty, things to do in Florida Keys/Nassau/Cococay... We will also be in New Orleans two days before our cruise so if you know of any fun things to do there please let me know. Thanks in advance.

First post! Planning to surprise my two children with a cruise next June during my son's *slim* window of opportunity to take a vacation. They will be 17 and 10 at the time. Traveling as a single mom with them, I'm wanting to have as much assistance as possible, so wanted to do a Suite in order to have priority boarding and luggage assistance, plus concierge service. They both wanted to visit PR or Jamaica, so thought Freedom of the Seas from San Juan would be perfect! Also saw this is a good ship for 'first-timers' since it's not as large as the Quantum Class (although we're not technically 1st time cruisers, only have done Disney but I think they've outgrown that and Disney ships are very limited in activities after you've done them so many times!) Is this a good choice or is the ship too small compared to Harmony, to find activities? Is the up price for Suite worth it or should I just do a JS (because we WILL need the extra room for sure!) Any advice greatly appreciated!