Jacqueline Posted December 4, 2012 #1 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I am going east which seems to be more problematiic. Do they do it at night or during the day? It seems like different lines take a different approach. We are on the Miami to Barcelona crossing in April. Still better than flying! I am suprised to see so many complaints when doing a boardwide search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimandStan Posted December 4, 2012 #2 Share Posted December 4, 2012 You will gain or lose the hour in the middle of the night. Absolute HEAVEN westbound :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LHT28 Posted December 4, 2012 #3 Share Posted December 4, 2012 We have not done a TA but anytime we had to change the clocks it was done at night always a note on your bed to change your clock before going to sleep YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mura Posted December 4, 2012 #4 Share Posted December 4, 2012 As Jim said, in either direction the time change is overnight. It's great coming from there to here ... But not so bad in the other direction. Either way, you have adjusted to the time changes. Mura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallydave Posted December 4, 2012 #5 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Agree with the other posters about the time normally changing in the middle of the nite however, in a recent eastbound TA for some strange reason I think due to daylight savings time, we actually set the clocks ahead 2 hours at one point. The first hour lost was when we went from 4 PM to 5 PM in the afternoon and then another hour in the middle of that nite. UGH!!!! Problem was that the ship was trying to match port times at all times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledobles Posted December 4, 2012 #6 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I am going east which seems to be more problematiic.Do they do it at night or during the day? It seems like different lines take a different approach. We are on the Miami to Barcelona crossing in April. Still better than flying! I am suprised to see so many complaints when doing a boardwide search. Time change is done at night. When you return to your room, there will be a note on your bed as to the time change. Heading east, you will be losing time. We just returned from the Barcelona to Miami TA and we gained sleep, which since we live in Arizona, left us with almost no jet lag (Miami and Arizona are 2 hours apart). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted December 4, 2012 Author #7 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I remembering doing the Baltic, the time seemed to change quite a bit. If it is an hour at a time carching the 6 hours over 12 days should not be to bad...not like the days are full of sightseeing! Thanks for your responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candbgirl Posted December 5, 2012 #8 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I did Miami to Barcelona last summer. I thought it would be awful and I'd get off the ship exhausted but I didn't. The cruise was so relaxing that the time changes didn't bother me at all. Have a great cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louby-Lou Posted December 5, 2012 #9 Share Posted December 5, 2012 From Rio to Barcelona this year we had 7 time changes! If you go to trivia remember how many time changes there have been - it could be a question........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ronrick1943 Posted December 6, 2012 #10 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Way to many for me, and if you do the cooking school--be careful on booking the early morning one, because with the time change it's really early. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love.II.Cruise Posted December 6, 2012 #11 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Having just done the Transatlantic from Barcelona to Miami (opposite direction as OP), everything was done at night. I coined a new word... ship-lag! I don't know what was wrong with me... but as we sailed my body was not adjusting. Every time the time changed, I got up an hour earlier. At one point I was up at 3:30am!!! Darn ship-lag! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted December 6, 2012 Author #12 Share Posted December 6, 2012 It is odd how even one hour can be enough to throw one off! I just spent 10 days in Guatamela and I think was the altitude and actual hours of daylight that played games with me! The early sunset here in NY has changed my wake/sleep. interesting stuff.. Thank goodness I will not be doing brain surgery on the TA. Time change is pretty interesting as a phenomema. Especially given the champagne I anticiipate enjoying... I just hope that the spa makes their classes later..i will not wake up, early up early on all those sea days.. I may actually call the Canyon Ranch on that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joysav Posted December 12, 2012 #13 Share Posted December 12, 2012 And crossing the International Date Line going Westward you lose a day 12/02 Apia, Western Samoa8.00am6.00pm 13/02 Pago Pago American Samoa8.00am4.00pm 14/02 At sea 15/02 Date Line Crossing 16/02 Lautoka, Fiji12.00pm8.00pm 17/02 Suva Fiji8.00am8.00pm 18/02 At sea 19/02 Luganville, Vanuatu8.00am3.00pm 27-Jan-2013 South Pacific & New Zealand 30 Nights Marina, Polynesia Treasures ex Papeete to Auckland Somehow on this 30 night Cruise they don't seem to lose a day :confused: Must be different rules compared to planes :cool: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsonmo Posted December 12, 2012 #14 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I am going east which seems to be more problematiic.Do they do it at night or during the day? It seems like different lines take a different approach. We are on the Miami to Barcelona crossing in April. Still better than flying! I am suprised to see so many complaints when doing a boardwide search. Just returned from 34 days Caribbean Cruise from and to Rotterdam The Netherlands. The clocks were changed at 14.00 either one hour forward (from Caribbean to Europe)or backward (Europe to Carabbean). Never had any problem with it. Worked well for everybody. peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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