How do you stand mulitiple days at sea on your cruise?

[sjcruiser]

I love sea days, especially during fall or winter cruises as it gives us time to actually rest and relax, engage in minimum activities, or start/finish a book while on board before reaching the ports of call.

[alexspepa]

Looks to me like the collective response to OP can be summarized as "How can you stand not having multiple sea days?"

 

I'm still waiting for a Caribbean cruise with no port days - I will be the first to sign up.

[wallie5446]

I'm still waiting for a Caribbean cruise with no port days - I will be the first to sign up.

 

Where do we sign up tooooooo!

[martinm]

My DW prefers a port intensive cruise and I prefer no ports.

 

I really like cruising. I can wonder the ship and gaze at the ocean for hours. I can do nothing with the best of them. My wife cannot! I got pneumonia traveling with my wife and she was mad at me for wanting to rest ;)

 

I am so looking forward to my December cruise. I love to people watch on Carnival and I have two days on the way to PV !

[Treven]

Where do we sign up tooooooo!

Me too!

[Friend100]

or People who don't think they can stand multiple days at sea should consider other cruises or other type of vacations.

 

One year ago, I said I can't stand multiple sea days. One year later, I just booked a cruise with multiple sea days. Time flies! :o

[paul929207]

One year ago, I said I can't stand multiple sea days. One year later, I just booked a cruise with multiple sea days. Time flies! :o

You have gotten wiser with age. :)

[SnowDiamonds]

I love having nothing to do and all day to do it. And it's astonishing how much time it takes to do not very much. By the time we've had breakfast, gone to a lecture, worked out in the gym, had lunch, played trivia, walked some laps around the deck, had tea, gone for a cocktail, had dinner and seen the show, we're exhausted and need a rest! :D

 

LOL. I'm with you; every morning I cirlce all the activities I want to do, and every evening I must realize I did not do half of them. Even in the colder areas I love to bundle up on a deck chair on the Promenade and watch us sail. It's just peaceful and relaxing. Read, write, nap, then it's already time for lunch, and round and round we go.

[Waterloomarc]

I'm still waiting for a Caribbean cruise with no port days - I will be the first to sign up.

 

I'd be all over this.

 

 

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[SnowDiamonds]

That was going to be my point too; I have met some of the most interesting people just hanging about, joining in on a puzzle or a game or chatting with someone while waiting for my cappucino. It's the sea days that allow you to get to know others and very soon you feel that sense of community where you see the same people over and over and you feel like you are in a neighborhood! It's so cute! On our Panama Canal cruise my mother and I had just sat down to dinner when we saw a couple we had been chatting with for days. He yelled, hey, we want to sit with those guys! They were just getting their buzzer but we told them to come on over and our waiter looked annoyed but we had fun with that too. He hadn't even taken our order yet so it should have been no big deal. But that was the fun of it. The unexpected things like that. Such a delight. We must have met more than ten groups on that cruise that we saw many times. I still keep in touch with that man, and another woman from a different couple who makes the most beautiful clothes and costumes. Her wardrobe was always fun to see.

We also chatted with many of the officers and halfway through we began having chocolate covered strawberries delivered to our room every night! I couldnt' stop them from coming and I couldn't eat them all! It was a joy.

 

 

 

On our last cruise to Hawaii...4 sea days to get there and 4 sea days to get back.......

 

I had breakfast with two of the funniest men I've ever met. One was 91 years old from Palm Springs. He was full of life...plays golf, tennis, and several musical instrument. He said he just got married. I said "You're kidding!" He said: "No...my new bride (76 yrs old) yelled at me the other day and said "come up stairs so we can have s_x!" He responded: "Well make up your mind!, I can't do both!"

 

My point is...we love sea days...it is absolutely the best time to meet some wonderful people....:):):):):)

[SnowDiamonds]

We haven't had more than 2 consecutive sea days, but on our last B2B's we did have 8 out of 14 days, and another 6 out of 9 days as sea days. Some of the sea days were hot and humid, some cool and very rough, but we loved them all. We don't spend that much time on ship activities, but spend the days mostly reading on our Kindles, just watching the changing moods and amazing beauty and power of the sea. We read, listen to music on our iPods, write in travel journals, download photos to our laptop and label them, do puzzles, and, amazingly....just talk to each other! And don't forget another great activity - people watching and meeting and talking to other passengers. We do get a little restless at about the "end of day 2" point, but it passes quickly. I think a lot of your feelings about sea days depends on your ability to entertain yourself vs. external entertainment. Some love the quiet, some hate it.

 

 

I love your response and I love your signature. I'm going to steal that. Except mine will say cruising since 1988. Or was it 89...

[RN4Nsy]

I love sea days! Explore the ship, visit different decks, read, nap, go to the casino, go to the silly "win a watch at 6pm in the shops" events. People watch on the Promenade with a drink. Get a snack. I hear on the ships with a flowrider it is a fascinating way to spend the day watching people. Interact with other travelers. You can learn a lot by asking to sit at the busy Windjammer with fellow travelers. You just open with, can I sit here with you and where are you from?

[Bluemoon319]

Please don't flame me, I mean no disrespect, but it seems that perhaps a land based vacation would be more to your liking. When I first started cruising, I wanted to go to as many ports as possible & book cruises to new places each time so that I could experience as many different places as possible. Now that I have been to so many places, sea days are much more attractive to me. I love being on the water & just chilling. When on land, I'm often looking for ways to get out on the water anyway. I feel so relaxed when I'm on board that by the end of the cruise, I always realize there were sooooo many things that I had intended to do, but never got to.

[Bluemoon319]

That's exactly how I spent the 8 sea days of my last cruise......truly happy when doing nothing. I actually surprised myself - I had lists of activities and lectures I wanted to attend, but when it actually came time to do them, I had no interest in doing any of them. In fact, I usually didn't look at the clock until after they had started (or even finished), and was surprised at how long I'd been sitting/lounging/wandering/reading. I did attend some computer photography courses, but kind of resented them for making me "watch the clock" and monitor what time it was.

 

I can relate. I don't even look at the activity/lecture lists anymore. If I happen to be hanging with someone at the moment who is heading to an activity that strikes me as interesting at the time, then I head to it. Otherwise, I don't even think about them. I just go with the flow as my mood takes me.

 

It's great that cruises make it easy to do as much or as little as you want to do.

[cruiserking]

We love sea days because it gives you the opportunity to discover and experience the ship. We had a port heavy voyage on the Queen Elizabeth and while it was an terrific cruise we simply ran around the ports all day and only enjoyed the ship at night.

 

Relax, unwind, afternoon trivia, afternoon tea, Cabin Crawl, lectures, being mesmerized by the boiling seas, there's plenty to do on sea days.

 

Jonathan

[Velvetwater]

It will be my first cruise round the baltics this summer.

 

There are 2 sea days together and both include a lie in, some cold pool swimming or at least a hot tub. We will check out the entertainment and quizzes and myself and my hubby can always entertain ourselves if needed. ;)

 

We once did a coach trip from Coventry to Venice and that was 2 days of coach travel....if we can stand that this will be a breeze!

[Slopfrog]

Sea days are when you can actually get lunch in the MDR!