Spaldydog Posted May 13, 2013 #151 Share Posted May 13, 2013 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budgetfairytale Posted May 13, 2013 Author #152 Share Posted May 13, 2013 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? There were 3 or 4 nights and lots of people dressed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypleasure Posted May 13, 2013 #153 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Thanks for the information. How does having a stop in turkey affect the cruise line keeping the passports. I read the Schen(sp) agreement and it talks about allowing people to cross borders without having through check points. I am guess I am not educated enough on this agreement to really understand this. Turkey is a non Schengen country. I live in the UK, I cannot travel by air, sea or tunnel to or from continental Europe without a passport as UK is a non Schengen country. Once I arrive in a European country I can go wherever I want in the Shengen zone as I have passed through immigration at my port of entry. I frequently travel to Belgium via France. The border between France and Belgium is a signpost on the road. Blink and you miss it. No guards, no checkpoint. That is the Schengen agreement in action. When entering the Schengen area from a non Schengen area passport checks are usually required. This also applies when entering a non Schengen country from the Schengen area. When we arrived in Turkey last summer Istanbul came before Izmir. We were all given cards to fill out which had to be showed at the port, I cannot remember if we needed passports there as well. The problem came when the Greek Authorities wanted a face to face presentation. If the cruiseline is taking the passports it has to do with entering Turkey at Izmir followed by Istanbul and then the port of re-entry to the Schengen zone at Mykonos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budgetfairytale Posted May 13, 2013 Author #154 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I wrote a little review of the Spirit on my blog and included a couple pics. You may find it helpful, or not at all helpful. http://www.budgetfairytale.com/2013/05/all-aboard-norwegian-spirit.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruisingGiants Posted May 14, 2013 #155 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I wrote a little review of the Spirit on my blog and included a couple pics. You may find it helpful, or not at all helpful. http://www.budgetfairytale.com/2013/05/all-aboard-norwegian-spirit.html Thank you so much for this! Love the pics and review -- can't wait to read your day by day. Sounds like you and your husband had a great honeymoon despite the last minute changes :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zarubamom Posted May 14, 2013 #156 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I wrote a little review of the Spirit on my blog and included a couple pics. You may find it helpful, or not at all helpful. http://www.budgetfairytale.com/2013/05/all-aboard-norwegian-spirit.html Thanks so much - just love it!! Can't wait until your day by day report! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da-Painter Posted May 14, 2013 #157 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I wrote a little review of the Spirit on my blog and included a couple pics. You may find it helpful, or not at all helpful. http://www.budgetfairytale.com/2013/05/all-aboard-norwegian-spirit.html Loved your review, glad NCL took good care of you and your special occasion. We are quite partial to NCL, we also feel they do a great job, and just stay with them. Love your new banners when you arrived at your room, you deserve it. :):):) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da-Painter Posted May 14, 2013 #158 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I have now finished the pictures - you can view them at bobandjoannstravel.shutterfly.com I'm stumped, how do I look at the pics??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpwnich Posted May 14, 2013 #159 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Cruising giants:how are you? We are sailing on June 28. I think you might be on the same sailing! Have you gotten any notification of an itinerary change from Ephesus (Izmir) to arriving in Kusadaski instead . Has anyone else gotten that information. We're are you staying in Barcelona? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budgetfairytale Posted May 14, 2013 Author #160 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Thank you so much for this! Love the pics and review -- can't wait to read your day by day. Sounds like you and your husband had a great honeymoon despite the last minute changes :D Thanks so much - just love it!! Can't wait until your day by day report! Loved your review, glad NCL took good care of you and your special occasion. We are quite partial to NCL, we also feel they do a great job, and just stay with them. Love your new banners when you arrived at your room, you deserve it. :):):) Thank you all for reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseclues Posted May 14, 2013 #161 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Thanks for your brief Q&A, which turned to 8 pages, which was good, as there was a lot of information. :):):):) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realitoes Posted May 14, 2013 #162 Share Posted May 14, 2013 (edited) Thanks for the information. How does having a stop in turkey affect the cruise line keeping the passports. I read the Schen(sp) agreement and it talks about allowing people to cross borders without having through check points. I am guess I am not educated enough on this agreement to really understand this. Turkey is not a member of the agreement (the only country where we docked that wasn't), therefore, they will most likely conduct an immigration check at their borders. I'm supposing that cruise line did this behind the scenes by having our passport ahead of time. Kept us from having to process through a passport check in port. They did give us a Landing Card that was to be filled out and returned when we re-boarded the ship in Izmir. Edited May 14, 2013 by Realitoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv-2-travel Posted May 14, 2013 #163 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I'm stumped, how do I look at the pics??? http://bobandjoannstravel.shutterfly.com that should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steph7021 Posted May 14, 2013 #164 Share Posted May 14, 2013 http://bobandjoannstravel.shutterfly.com that should work I figured out I couldn't open it on my phone...but worked on my computer...thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deb63 Posted May 14, 2013 #165 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Wow. I'm working on 2015, your photos are making me wish I had done this route for 2014. LOL. Your shots are amazing. I'd have a hard time picking which ones to blow up & frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv-2-travel Posted May 14, 2013 #166 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Wow. I'm working on 2015, your photos are making me wish I had done this route for 2014. LOL. Your shots are amazing. I'd have a hard time picking which ones to blow up & frame. I took over 2000 shots and had great difficulty narrowing it down to what I posted I will be adding a few more albums from our trip in the near future - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joannel1958 Posted May 14, 2013 #167 Share Posted May 14, 2013 You beat me I took 1200!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv-2-travel Posted May 14, 2013 #168 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I wrote a little review of the Spirit on my blog and included a couple pics. You may find it helpful, or not at all helpful. http://www.budgetfairytale.com/2013/05/all-aboard-norwegian-spirit.html Great Blog Mindy - really enjoyed our time with you and Tim and hope we will meet on future vacations - we are interested in the Panama Canal as well - possible Castaway future cruise? JoAnn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocklinmom Posted May 14, 2013 #169 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Love your pictures!! Thank you for posting the link to them. We will be on the Spirit next summer and your pictures make the wait even harder! Did you enjoy the cruise in general? I will have two teenagers and a 10 year-old, so am hoping that they will enjoy seeing Europe for the first time. I didn't know that the ship keeps our passports -- that is a good detail to know ahead of time. Not thrilled about handing it over (can't imagine having to replace it to be able to fly home to the USA!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv-2-travel Posted May 14, 2013 #170 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Love your pictures!! Thank you for posting the link to them. We will be on the Spirit next summer and your pictures make the wait even harder! Did you enjoy the cruise in general? I will have two teenagers and a 10 year-old, so am hoping that they will enjoy seeing Europe for the first time. I didn't know that the ship keeps our passports -- that is a good detail to know ahead of time. Not thrilled about handing it over (can't imagine having to replace it to be able to fly home to the USA!). Thank you - I will be posting more - check back in a month The cruise was amazing. Thanks to all our great new Sunshine Castaway and Spirit Cruiser friends that we meet along the way. We also booked this cruise last minute as Carnival cancelled ours three weeks prior to sailing - We only took 3 tours (Cinque Terre, Naples/Almafi Coast and Izmir) and the balance of the cities we did on our own - (quite easy to do) might be worth considering as the tours can get very long especially in the hot summer - that way you can go back to the ship at your own leisure I am sure the kids will enjoy Europe - so different than home I did not have an issue with the cruise ship keeping our passports - we have done this before - we took a copy of the first two pages, had them laminated and carried them with us at all times for identification - we also kept a copy in the room safe :):D - I'm still smiling when I talk about this trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody73 Posted May 15, 2013 #171 Share Posted May 15, 2013 . . . I'm still smiling when I talk about this trip That's a sign of an excellent cruise! Thank you to all for sharing your experiences on a Spirit Med cruise. We sail next month from Barcelona to Venice, and your posts have been very helpful (it's the stuff NCL doesn't tell you). We sail in to Venice in the afternoon. Which side of the ship would be best for the sail in? Woody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapitman Posted May 15, 2013 #172 Share Posted May 15, 2013 That's a sign of an excellent cruise! Thank you to all for sharing your experiences on a Spirit Med cruise. We sail next month from Barcelona to Venice, and your posts have been very helpful (it's the stuff NCL doesn't tell you). We sail in to Venice in the afternoon. Which side of the ship would be best for the sail in? Woody STARBOARD. We were so lucky with our balcony view!!! It was beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure Moon Posted May 15, 2013 #173 Share Posted May 15, 2013 That's a sign of an excellent cruise! Thank you to all for sharing your experiences on a Spirit Med cruise. We sail next month from Barcelona to Venice, and your posts have been very helpful (it's the stuff NCL doesn't tell you). We sail in to Venice in the afternoon. Which side of the ship would be best for the sail in? Woody STARBOARD. We were so lucky with our balcony view!!! It was beautiful! Hot Dog! That's the side our balcony is on! :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budgetfairytale Posted May 15, 2013 Author #174 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I took over 2000 shots and had great difficulty narrowing it down to what I posted I will be adding a few more albums from our trip in the near future - You beat me I took 1200!! Between me and my husband, we are sorting through 4000+ photos! :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budgetfairytale Posted May 15, 2013 Author #175 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Great Blog Mindy - really enjoyed our time with you and Tim and hope we will meet on future vacations - we are interested in the Panama Canal as well - possible Castaway future cruise? JoAnn It was so nice to hang out with you, JoAnn! Love the idea of a Castaway Canal Cruise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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