Cruising (on ships not the mucky kind)

clb74

Briston_Addick said:

clb74 said:

So me and the wife have always wanted to do a back to back cruise.
Have just got back from being on a Caribbean cruise for a month on P & O Britannia.
Left Southampton end of October spent nearly 2 weeks taking the ship across the pond and then another 2 weeks in the Caribbean.
Got to stay in Barbados and st lucia overnight and visited a couple of places twice.
The liver now needs a break as we had the Deluxe package for the 4 weeks.
I will admit one of the reasons we done the back to back cruise was people think you've got a load of money.
When I've told a few mates the cost they've thought it was per person for the month.

My wife and I did the second leg of your trip - there's no way she'd have coped with all the sea days on the repositioning leg, just about handled the four single days that we did have!

We only had the Classic drinks package but made good use of it ... and we were helped by one of the waiters in the Java bar on Deck 7 regularly giving us doubles instead of singles ("lubbly doubly" he'd say to us )

We make good use of breakfast and then normally go through until dinner although we may have had a slice of pizza just to keep us ticking over. I thought I'd done quite well to put on only 5lb over the two weeks (rum isn't really considered a slimming drink given it's derived from sugar!) but the amount of walking done over the fortnight probably helped on that part (our cabin was on Deck 12 and we'd often take the stairs up to 16 or down to 7 because we were fed up waiting for the lifts!).

Hi Briston, you was on from the 14th to 28/29th ?
I'm a drink/ eater cruiser.
Upon leaving the dining room after breakfast I'll be taking photos of what's for lunch and dinner.
Sea days can go pretty quick.
Could go breakfast followed by a talk or a game of Deck quoits followed by lunch.
Then a few drinks our favourite place was just outside the glass house Deck 7 opposite where the smoking section was.
Then go back to the cabin for a couple of hours and that'll be the daytime gone.
You mention java bar but wasn't the waiter who do only fools n horses in the glass house?
They even had a sign in the glasshouse saying Rodney's bar.
I walked at least 10000 steps a day round the ship everyday and was amazed I'd only put 3lb on for the month.
The lifts on P & O are a nightmare.
1st 2 weeks we were on Deck 15 and one night managed to get from Deck 5 to 15 before the lift and had to wait for the wife for a couple of minutes.
We always walked down the decks but going up could be hard work.