Hal Vs. Princess Sea Days

[elou]

Since I am not a lover of sea days, I was looking to day 7 nights out of Ft. Lauderdale. My question is, beside bingo, art auctions or the casino, is there much to do? I've been choosing the Princess for their many different activities. Thanks for any help.

[Jade13]

Since I am not a lover of sea days, I was looking to day 7 nights out of Ft. Lauderdale. My question is, beside bingo, art auctions or the casino, is there much to do? I've been choosing the Princess for their many different activities. Thanks for any help.

 

For our first sea day on our last HAL cruise (besides Bingo) we had our CC Meet & Greet, Galley Tour, Chef Demos and Cook-off (they actually let two passengers cook and thers were the judges), Royal Dutch Tea. They also had the designer of Crystal Atrium chandelier on board talking about his work. There were pool activities, and diff Sales at the Shops (they put out diff stuff each day (this was in the Med cruise - Amber one day, Murano glass another, watches...). I know on one sea day they did an ice carving demo around the pool and one of the performers offered another show one afternoon. I know they had the usual port shopping talks as well. Hope this helps. I know there are also activities to collect "Dam dollars" but we have never participated in that. They also have a ship building contest. On another day they had a towel folding demo and marzepan flower making demo too.

 

Btw, what does Princess offer? We wiill probab end up on them for the Panama Canal as I like their itinerary a lot better than HALs.

[Stevesan]

Since I am not a lover of sea days, I was looking to day 7 nights out of Ft. Lauderdale. My question is, beside bingo, art auctions or the casino, is there much to do? I've been choosing the Princess for their many different activities. Thanks for any help.

 

Same here. I just got off a two week Crown Princess cruise with only two, countem two, sea days. I loved it to death!!!:)

 

Those who like sea days can always stay on board and pretend a port day is a sea day. But short of confiscating a life boat, I can't make a sea day into a port day.:D

 

Having said that, I think you'll find a proportional number of sea day activities on HAL as Princess. That includes trivial pursuit, slot tournaments and double the number of bingo games. Wow - excitement galore. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[BM64]

We just came off the Noordam which had four sea days and some of the activites included hands on cooking class, this was fabulous, fitness classess, photography classes and a computer and mixology classes. All these had a fee for them. The greenhouse spa also offered some seminars, on hair and nails which I did not attend. Hope this helps.

[jtl513]

There's almost-first-run movies. Trivia games are always popular. On the Zuiderdam there were Latin Dance classes and a Bridge group. On my last sea day heading home I spend time editing and organizing my pictures on my laptop.

[Retired 07]

This does not sound all that encouraging to me. We are taking our 1st cruise on HAL, (Maasdam)and our 3rd cruise overall. Since this is a repo cruise, it ends with 3 sea days. We plan on using the gym every day, walking the promenade, etc. I'm sure we'll spend a little time eating(LOL), going to the cooking demos, and reading, but I'm kinda worried about the boredom factor setting in and wanting to jump ship after a day or so. Any positives about shipboard activity on the Maasdam?