jhooks61 Posted September 18, 2022 #1 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Looking at the Atlantic crossing the first of December from Barcelona to San Juan. Need your feedback on this type of cruise. Did you get bored on the sea days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TayanaLorna Posted September 18, 2022 #2 Share Posted September 18, 2022 55 minutes ago, jhooks61 said: Looking at the Atlantic crossing the first of December from Barcelona to San Juan. Need your feedback on this type of cruise. Did you get bored on the sea days? Did this in 2021 on the Sea. Loved it. Was never bored on sea days and found lots to do or chose nothing. Passage had following seas on Ocean so very calm. It got increasingly warm as we traveled across. Only two disappointments were lack of sea life on crossing which we learned was typical for deep ocean waters. Also thought we would see an amazing night sky but the ships lights on top decks were too bright. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LindaS272 Posted September 18, 2022 #3 Share Posted September 18, 2022 I would say it depends on what you like about cruising, why you cruise, what your cruising experience is, and your experiences with travel in general. We did the TA this March/April from SJ to Barcelona and loved it. But I reflected afterwards that I don’t cruise to “travel” but to be pampered and to sometimes get to places I wouldn’t do as a destination. E.g., Greenland, L’Anse Aux Meadow, NFL (although we have done a destination trip to NFL); Falklands, Chilean Fjords, Cape Horn, Funchal, Dakar, etc. When we started cruising a few years ago, we wondered if we’d like sea days, & then quickly discovered we kind of prefer cruises that have lots of them. We’re not as enamored with cruises that do a port a day because with major cities you can’t do them justice and then you feel forced to do an excursion so you don’t miss an important site when you might prefer to hit the thermal spa or tea in the Wintergarden. 🧘♀️🏊♀️🫖🧇🍰 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted September 18, 2022 #4 Share Posted September 18, 2022 2 hours ago, jhooks61 said: Looking at the Atlantic crossing the first of December from Barcelona to San Juan. Need your feedback on this type of cruise. Did you get bored on the sea days? Have done 2.5 transatlantics in the opposite direction. Bored? Not at all-problem was finding time to do all we wanted to do. If you would like to see how we spent our days, check out my blog. (Unfortunately, because of storage issues, I had to strip out pictures in the early posts). Below are links to the three cruises we have taken. 2018-San Juan to Barcelona https://cruisinwithclay.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/and-so-it-begins/ 2019-San Juan to Barcelona https://cruisinwithclay.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/on-our-way/ 2020-Miami to the Middle of the Atlantic (damn you Covid) https://cruisinwithclay.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/and-we-are-off/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mich3554 Posted September 18, 2022 #5 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Love sea days, we had 9 consecutive ones on our last cruise and could have done more. It seems to me that many either love ‘em or hate ‘em. I try to book cruises that have a decent number of sea days, only because I like having a down day to process what I have seen. I find that when you go from port to port, things tend to run together. That’s why I really like the SA cruise, as there are a lot of sea days interspersed with ports. The sailings, especially the Chilean fjords are spectacular. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted September 19, 2022 #6 Share Posted September 19, 2022 52 minutes ago, Mich3554 said: Love sea days, we had 9 consecutive ones on our last cruise and could have done more. It seems to me that many either love ‘em or hate ‘em. I try to book cruises that have a decent number of sea days, only because I like having a down day to process what I have seen. I find that when you go from port to port, things tend to run together. That’s why I really like the SA cruise, as there are a lot of sea days interspersed with ports. The sailings, especially the Chilean fjords are spectacular. Agreed! Our round the horn remains our favorite-mostly due to its perfect mix of sea and port days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhooks61 Posted September 19, 2022 Author #7 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi13 Posted September 19, 2022 #8 Share Posted September 19, 2022 5 hours ago, jhooks61 said: Looking at the Atlantic crossing the first of December from Barcelona to San Juan. Need your feedback on this type of cruise. Did you get bored on the sea days? Fortunately, you're heading West, so 5 of the 15 days will have 25 hr days, as the regular 24 hr day just aren't long enough to fit everything in. In 2020 we survived over 50 continuous sea days from Bali to Gibraltar, so 6 days across the Atlantic is easy. You will just be perfecting the sea day routine when you dock. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILCIANRQTS Posted September 20, 2022 #9 Share Posted September 20, 2022 We love sea days - long, leisurely meals, reading a good book, perhaps a few extra beverages, high tea, enrichment lectures, etc. We’re big on self-entertainment and draw selectively on VO activities. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annapolitan369 Posted September 20, 2022 #10 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Does Viking have Bridge duplicates on the ocean crossings. We have been on Oceania and Regent crossings and they both have daily bridge lessons and duplicates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mich3554 Posted September 20, 2022 #11 Share Posted September 20, 2022 36 minutes ago, annapolitan369 said: Does Viking have Bridge duplicates on the ocean crossings. We have been on Oceania and Regent crossings and they both have daily bridge lessons and duplicates. We played duplicates on the second leg of our back to back to back. That was the Barcelona to Buenos Aires leg. On the trip from BA to Santiago, there weren’t enough people to play duplicates, just lessons and practice games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UWDawg Posted September 20, 2022 #12 Share Posted September 20, 2022 On 9/18/2022 at 2:37 PM, jhooks61 said: Looking at the Atlantic crossing the first of December from Barcelona to San Juan. Need your feedback on this type of cruise. Did you get bored on the sea days? @jhooks61 you might be interested in this offer, but note it expires Sept 21, 2022: https://viking.com/promotions/us/ocean/TAN22/20220914 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annapolitan369 Posted September 21, 2022 #13 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Thank you Mich3554 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral1 Posted September 28, 2022 #14 Share Posted September 28, 2022 On 9/20/2022 at 6:38 PM, UWDawg said: @jhooks61 you might be interested in this offer, but note it expires Sept 21, 2022: https://viking.com/promotions/us/ocean/TAN22/20220914 Was this a targeted promotion or one that anyone could have used? Was it on the Viking Website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UWDawg Posted September 28, 2022 #15 Share Posted September 28, 2022 32 minutes ago, ral1 said: Was this a targeted promotion or one that anyone could have used? Was it on the Viking Website? @ral1 I had received the promotion via email (from a Travel Agent), but posted the generic link here. I addressed my CC post to @jhooks61 because @jhooks61 mentioned interest in an Atlantic crossing in post #1, but anyone could have used it. As near as I can tell, offers codes like the one in this link, while on the Viking website, aren't published openly... that is, you need to have been notified of the offer code, usually via a direct email or snail-mail from Viking or from a travel agent... or from a friend. Sometimes I see an offer posted in a group chat on FB. Neither I nor anyone I know has been able to figure out how it is determined to which groups the offers are distributed... so far we haven't noticed a consistent pattern. Sometimes you can find promotions of interest at one of these two sites: https://www.vikingcruises.com/oceans/promotions.html https://www.vikingcruises.com/oceans/search-cruises/index.html But it appears to me that promotions with specific Offer Codes are even better deals than those they make readily visible on their website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral1 Posted September 28, 2022 #16 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Thank you UWDawg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lulley766 Posted November 8, 2022 #17 Share Posted November 8, 2022 On 9/18/2022 at 7:39 PM, Clay Clayton said: Have done 2.5 transatlantics in the opposite direction. Bored? Not at all-problem was finding time to do all we wanted to do. If you would like to see how we spent our days, check out my blog. (Unfortunately, because of storage issues, I had to strip out pictures in the early posts). Below are links to the three cruises we have taken. 2018-San Juan to Barcelona https://cruisinwithclay.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/and-so-it-begins/ 2019-San Juan to Barcelona https://cruisinwithclay.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/on-our-way/ 2020-Miami to the Middle of the Atlantic (damn you Covid) https://cruisinwithclay.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/and-we-are-off/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lulley766 Posted November 8, 2022 #18 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Clay, Are you on the 12/1TA with us? Mary S Lulley 766 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted November 8, 2022 #19 Share Posted November 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Lulley766 said: Clay, Are you on the 12/1TA with us? Mary S Lulley 766 Sadly we are not. We looked at taking the 12/8 one to return from a family trip to Munich but couldn’t get DMIL to do so. Now that there is a promo for that cruise I’m really kicking myself for not doing so. Have a great cruise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted November 8, 2022 #20 Share Posted November 8, 2022 On 9/27/2022 at 11:21 PM, ral1 said: Was this a targeted promotion or one that anyone could have used? Was it on the Viking Website? You might also want to subscribe to this thread where all are welcome to post promos they receive: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2863068-post-viking-promos/?do=findComment&comment=64271377 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamfish642 Posted November 8, 2022 #21 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Does anyone have a photo of daily sea day activities for a trans-Atlantic cruise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Clay Clayton Posted November 8, 2022 #22 Share Posted November 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Kamfish642 said: Does anyone have a photo of daily sea day activities for a trans-Atlantic cruise? You can see them from our half trans-Atlantic (damn you Covid) in March 2020 here: https://boards.cruisecritic.com.au/topic/2739765-sky-transatlantic-march-6-2020-almost-live/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FetaCheese Posted November 9, 2022 #23 Share Posted November 9, 2022 20 hours ago, Kamfish642 said: Does anyone have a photo of daily sea day activities for a trans-Atlantic cruise? There is a Viking category topic about TA cruises, and what activities are offered. Don't remember exact title. Look for, or search for TayanaLorna, as she has posted some photos of dailies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare CCWineLover Posted November 10, 2022 #24 Share Posted November 10, 2022 11 hours ago, FetaCheese said: There is a Viking category topic about TA cruises, and what activities are offered. Don't remember exact title. Look for, or search for TayanaLorna, as she has posted some photos of dailies. I was on that TA with TayanaLorna. If you can't find it, let me know. I have all the dailies. It was the first 2 weeks of December from Barcelona to San Juan. 2021. We were blessed with wonderful weather, some great lecturers, and fun-filled days at sea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamfish642 Posted November 10, 2022 #25 Share Posted November 10, 2022 17 hours ago, CCWineLover said: I was on that TA with TayanaLorna. If you can't find it, let me know. I have all the dailies. It was the first 2 weeks of December from Barcelona to San Juan. 2021. We were blessed with wonderful weather, some great lecturers, and fun-filled days at sea! Can't locate TayanaLorna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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