MargaritaPlease

Thank you for the ideas!

You say thta you will be here on a Saturday, but the schedule says Sunday...?

And yes, we will be arriving by air on Saturday morning in advance of our Sunday cruise departure.

It's mid-July - summer in Stockholm. It's a Saturday night and you're out with the family - mom, dad, sons 18 and 20. Where would you eat? What would you do after dinner? Would you browse shops? Theater? Clubs?

We're doing a Baltic cruise this summer with the following ports:

• Stockholm
  
• Helsinki
  
• St. Petersberg
  
• Tallinn
  
• Riga
  

Seems at least STP requires a visa if you want to get off the ship and wonder about on your own without a tour guide.

What's the best way to obtain a visa for St. Pete?

Do any of the other ports require Visas if we want to tour on our own?

I'm sure you've read the ads that say this package will be available starting in January 2013, right? How would you expect anyone to have experience with it?

This is a VERY helpful thread. Thank you for taking the time to post it.

According to this page, the Victory is scheduled for dry-dock this November. Other than scraping the barnacles and some paint, anybody know how to find out what the planned renovations / modifications are?

But whatever....thanks for the input anyway...

You're welcome.

At the risk of pointing out the obvious... You DO realize you could take you 20,000 points as $200 cash and then spend it on anything you darn well please: excursions, drinks, gambling, wine, women, or song, right?

I got one more... Here's what happens when a 15 year-old has too much Diet Coke in Cozumel...

My 10 yr old having the time of his life in Nassau.

Ha ha! Here's a similar shot (minus the bird) of my (then) 9 year old on a schooner off St. Martin in 2005...

I saw this on the first page, you don't mind your family seeing you naked?:confused:

Look... I've got two sons. We share locker rooms, tents on camping trips, showers at the YMCA... What's there to be embarrassed about? My wife's a little more modest, but not a whole lot. It's not like we run around the house naked but we don't freak out about it either.

Does the bathroom door lock? That may be an idea.....

I think it would be kind of cruel to leave the kids in there! ;)

Our kids are 9 and 11. I'm liking the balcony and off-hours ideas!!

Perhaps I was a little TOO subtle... I have no problem with the family seeing each other naked, it's the other "activities" my wife and I might "engage" in on a romantic cruise vacation that I was concerned about.

You know? I mean... there was a time when whole families shared single room houses and all but... Do you feel a little funny with the kids sleeping there?