Cruising at Christmas

[Bazzybuggs]

Has anyone taken a cruise at Christmas or New Year? I’m thinking of booking for 2018 so would like to know what to expect and the best destinations to consider. Thanks in advance

 

 

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[riclop]

Has anyone taken a cruise at Christmas or New Year? I’m thinking of booking for 2018 so would like to know what to expect and the best destinations to consider. Thanks in advance

 

 

Life is a disease with a 100% mortality rate

Warm weather and a nice xmas decor on the ship

[BTromboneFrack]

Been on five of them and love them. Someone else puts up the decorations. Champaign after you get on the ship. New Year's Eve party and the blowing the ship's horn at midnight. Good football on in the sports bars. I hear there is a snowstorm in the atrium, but we've never seen it. The warm weather in the middle of a Michigan winter is REALLY nice.

 

Did Christmas on Disney once when our boys were young. We left the door to our balcony open so Santa could visit. He showed up sometime in the night and put presents all over the room.

 

Another great memory -- We were drinking our bottle of wine before dinner on our balcony a few years ago and another ship came in to port. As it passed by us, we could see four Christmas trees on that ship. I think that was when we decided that Christmas on the ocean was by far the best Christmas we could have, especially since our kids have now grown up.

 

Enjoy your trip.

[lcpagejr]

Btrombobefrack pretty well nailed it... We've done it several times as well. Very festive and fun. Just be aware that if your calling on a Port on Xmas Day.... there will be shop closures and the town won't be as vibrant as a normal port day. But tourism is the islands main revenue maker ,,,, so things will still be going on.

Edited December 6, 2017 by lcpagejr

[Bazzybuggs]

It sounds great. I’m off to see what I can find [emoji16]

 

 

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[tw67]

It sounds great. I’m off to see what I can find [emoji16]

 

 

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We are doing one this year, and I am so excited. We really hope we like it because we already booked one for Christmas 2018! We have sailed after Christmas before, but were never on the ship Christmas Day.

[nealstuber]

We’ve taken on Christmas Cruise and One New Years Cruise. Much preferred the New Years Cruise. Our favorite holiday to cruise is Thanksgiving.

 

 

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[Ksn0]

I did a new years cruise last year, and I won't be doing that again. The amount of people on the cruise was ridiculous. Long lines for everything every night. Casino always had waits for anything I wanted to play. There were long lines for the water slides. Every show was completely packed and you have to get there an hour early to reserve a seat.

 

On new years eve people were able to reserve seats all around the ship which was crazy to me. My wife and I tried to find a spot to sit to watch the show, but everything was reserved. Turns out you could pay to reserve a chair. I didn't know that. So we ended up spending new years eve in our room just because there was no where to go for us.

[DCLCrazy]

Been on five of them and love them. Someone else puts up the decorations. Champaign after you get on the ship. New Year's Eve party and the blowing the ship's horn at midnight. Good football on in the sports bars. I hear there is a snowstorm in the atrium, but we've never seen it. The warm weather in the middle of a Michigan winter is REALLY nice.

 

Did Christmas on Disney once when our boys were young. We left the door to our balcony open so Santa could visit. He showed up sometime in the night and put presents all over the room.

 

Another great memory -- We were drinking our bottle of wine before dinner on our balcony a few years ago and another ship came in to port. As it passed by us, we could see four Christmas trees on that ship. I think that was when we decided that Christmas on the ocean was by far the best Christmas we could have, especially since our kids have now grown up.

 

Enjoy your trip.

 

 

 

Definitely can’t go wrong with Christmas on Disney. Santa visits, snow falls in the atrium, dickens carolers roam around, a giant gingerbread house. And this is just to name a few things. We loved our trip!

 

 

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[Djptcp]

DH and I did several Thanksgiving and Christmas cruises before we retired and had days off around the holidays so we didn't need to take so much vacation. Not our first choices of times of the year to take cruises, though. Ships were nicely decorated and holiday sing-alongs at the atrium bars. As previous poster said, stores in ports not always open on Christmas Day. We've been retired for awhile and will never do a Christmas cruise again - way too many kids with parents who didn't seem to care their kids were out of control. We now take cruises when kids are in school.