Frankie14

I'm working hard on losing 2 dress sizes before my cruise in March. I'm working out 80 minutes per day almost every day and keeping the calorie count around 1200-1300 per day. I plan on completely stopping the diet when my trip begins and enjoying any and all food and drink I want during the trip. Do I need to worry that this extreme adjustment will cause a very noticeable weight gain during the trip such as my clothes not fitting right, or will it take longer than the 9-10 days I am gone so I won't have to worry about it until I get home? It takes SO long to lose the weight - I hope putting it back on is slow too!

My husband and i have both lost weight for our upcoming cruise. Like you we want to enjoy eating and drinking but don,t want to pile it all back on. so we have a plan. For breakfast load up with loads of fruit and then have eggs. then we plan to go to the gym every day after breakfast and then to the spa which we have signed up for. hopefully there will be lots of dancing swimming etc. you can still make healthy choices for meals. so we plan every second day to choose wisely and on alternate days have what we what.

You are usually better off going with private vendors - but really depends on what you want to do. In tortola we visited the baths on our own. In St Thomas we took a non-cruise excursion with a catamaran sailing to St Johns to snorkel.

Hi I,m interested to see you booked a non cruise Catamaran trip in St Thomas. We quite fancied this and any advice about how you booked it would be great

If there is time before your cruise I recommend your friend get a credit card if possible. If there is not enough time I still recommend they get one.

 

Just for emergencies if nothing else.

thankyoufortheadvicebutitsonly26daystillwegoandmightbeabitlate

We have used cash for the last 2 cruises and have put down as little as 300 total for 3 of us, 1 cabin. Nobody questioned it .

Brilliant,thatsgreattoknow

Keep in mind that for a 7 day cruise the DSC will be $94.50. So that would be the absolute minimum she would need to put down. Additionally there might be tax applied to your beverages while in Port. And lastly, it is UBP (Ultimate Beverage Package) not UDP (Ultimate Dining Package).

 

 

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thank you. yes i know its UBP it was a typo

our last cruise was October and our next is in 26 days lol

some airport offer a service whereby your luggage can be transferred from the ship to the airport and placed in the left luggage area

we sailed on the Jade Iast October. you can get a complimentary breakfast but have to pay for any other room service

you can opt out of paying the gratuities. we are British and used to paying for service that is deserved. if you want to opt out go to reception and you fill out a form. we always do this saying we want to pay as we go for service and then we pay individually

My friend is cruising with us for my birthday with NCL. She does not earn a lot of money and has worked her socks off to pay for what for her will be a holiday of a lifetime. We have the UDP so apart from a drink or two on shore she won,t have a massive amount of spending money. She doesn,t have a credit card to use for any onbaord expenses so would have to depoit cash. The info on NCL website states she has to deposit $450. is this per cabin or per person, and can they insist as this will more or less be her total amount

Helicopter excursion : flying into the live Volcano on Montserrat Island.

 

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Wow that's sounds amazing