Spaldydog

Does anyone know when you get a list of excursions from Star Clipper? We will be sailing on the Royal Clipper in June and are interested in what excursions the ship may offer.

I found the excursions on the Star Clippers website. At the very bottom of the page there is a column of Quick Links. Shore Excursions is listed under the Quick Links. Once you click on Shore Excursions a list of ships with their itinerary pops up and you select the one you want. A list of Shore Excursions for that ship/itinerary should be there.

Please post a review after your cruise. I'm wondering if there are any deviations to the itinerary since the hurricanes.

Booked our trip today! We are Patrick and Shannon from KY. We have done several cruises over the years with our favorite being a Windjammer 13 years ago. We loved everything about the smaller ship so thought we would give the Royal Clipper a try. Looking forward to a new adventure as we have never visited any of the ports/islands on the itinerary. :cool:

Just returned from the Spirit cruise and wanted to post some helpful hints from my experiences.

Don't pack a lot of clothes to wear to dinner. We ate in the dining rooms 4 nights out of 12. Two hours for dinner each night was too long to sit after long days in port. The people who do go to dinner don't dress up a lot. The dining rooms are pretty casual considering this cruise is so port intensive. On dress up or not nights (there are 2), I didn't see 5% of the people in "formal" attire. A casual dress or skirt will be fine for either dining room and shorts and jeans are allowed in the Garden dining room. The menus for Window and Garden are basically the same to dress casually and go to the Garden if you want to have a looooong meal.

The best place for a nice breeze and quiet enjoyment is the quiet area behind the Bier Garten on the ship.

There were 3 ladies in my cabin and we were very thankful for the nightlight I packed. We plugged it in the 110 on the hair dryer in the bathroom so we didn't have to turn the light on in the night and disturb one another.

Unless you are on a prepaid shore excursion, you will need Turkish Lira in Turkey. We did Istanbul on our own and had to have lira for admission into the Cisterns and to travel on public transport. We had to spend time finding an ATM due to the fact that we were under the impression that Euro or USD were widely accepted. They are accepted in 90% of the Grand Bazaar but it helps to have a little lira.

I read the Freestyle newsletter every night and both laundry days were clearly marked. There is a special insert for the laundry days telling you exactly what to do. From reading all the complaints about not knowing about the first laundry day, I'm assuming that the room stewards forgot to insert them for certain areas of the cabins on other cruises.

Could you please tell me how many "dress up or not" nights they have on a 12 day cruise? Do many of the ladies get really dressed up on that/those nights?