seas rough in the mediterrean?

[bellarosa]

anyone out there been to the med?? this is our first cruise and we are on the noordam front ship cabin and wondering if we should move cabins before they fill up. Some say the med is calm no worries. Our cruise docks everyday in a new country

[gammasip]

We've done two Mediterranean cruises and the water was smooth and calm, however you can get storms like anywhere else.
Center of the ship is the most stable.

[pris993]

We have been to the Mediterranean about 6 times during the spring and fall time frames.

Have seen some rough seas on occasion but generally they don't last long, for example we had a good storm one night leaving Venice Italy, next day was fine.

Had rough seas off Monte Carlo twice, rough enough it made tendering difficult and impossible. But not rough enough to really be a problem for the ship. We miss the port entirely and some folks were unable.

Generally seas are not rough enough to be a problem from my experience during the spring and fall. You did not say when you were cruising.

We had a front facing cabin only once on the Song Of America years ago, i.e., in the early l980s. Doubt I would book one again. If you have a balcony it might be too windy to really enjoy sitting out there when at sea.

[catl331]

We had a smooth ride on our West Med ... but we had all good weather.

[Mrs. Mac]

In the fall of '07 on the Celebrity Century we were going from Civitavecchia (Rome) to Corsica the whole night was pretty rocky. Woke up in the morning and the drawers and closet doors were all open. I'm glad neither one of us got up during the night, we might have hurt ourselves! Didn't bother us, the next day was beautiful!

[Copper10-8]

Same as anywhere else; usually nice and smooth. If you hit weather, things can get bumpy.

The ship in this video, Iberojet's Voyager, was sailing from Tunis, Tunesia to Barcelona, Spain in NOV 05 when she ran into cyclone Valentina sixty miles off Palma de Majorca, one of Spain's Balearic islands in the Med. Her engines were knocked out and she was bopping up and down for a while like a cork until her crew was able to bring two out of her four engines back on line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h12-msb8LZw

[garydm]

We had very rough seas from Italy to Barcelona.

Gary

[Willsot]

Our roughest seas were when we passed through the Strait of Gilbraltar from Almeria to Cadiz (Med to Atlantic).

[beckntom]

bellarosa, I know you've had similar questions about this before, so it must be a real concern to you. In that case, and since you have the option, I would go ahead and change to a more mid-ship location. Might as well do all you can to ward off any possible problems!

[SabreSailor]

We were on the Noordam on her first transatlantic from NYC to Rome in April 2006. By far the worst weather was a squall in the Med netween Barcelona and Monte Carlo - over 60 kt winds. But as with most squalls, it was clear by morning....

[CruisinManiac]

Calm seas on the Noordam, traveling around the Eastern Mediterranean in June. ;)

[kura]

We had 24 days in Med last June..Barcelona and as far east as Istanbul on the Oosterdam. We were in a front veranday VA cabin...the roughest seas we got were 4 inch ripples!!!! It was flat calm everyday...just a lot of wind while in port in Mykonos

[agabbymama]

We were on Grand Princess in Oct '08 and rocked a little bit around Mykonos. So much so, we couldn't make the port. The Captain announced
he had tried three times and couldn't make it in, so aborted due to
high winds and we sailed ever so slowly on to Athens.

No storms though, until we reached Venice, then it rained for 3 days there
and 2 more days in Paris. Thank goodness we were done with the cruise
and just wet on land.

[kelmac]

Usually it's like glass! One evening we had 30' seas heading toward Barcelona and that's the roughest seas we've had in 36 cruises.
All the doors were locked to the outside; barf bags on the stair cases; had to do the hand on the wall thing just to make it to your cabin; water from the pool was in the interior of the ship; shows were cancelled -- I slept like a baby that night!;):)

Kel

[Sirdar]

anyone out there been to the med?? this is our first cruise and we are on the noordam front ship cabin and wondering if we should move cabins before they fill up. Some say the med is calm no worries. Our cruise docks everyday in a new country

DW and I did the Easter Med on the Noordam in July a couple of summers back. The weather was perfect and the sea very calm. Perahps it was the luck of the draw but as we stayed in Rome both before and after the 10 day cruise I don't recall any rough weather in the Med at all.

[Essiesmom]

Very rough seas on Oosterdam in Bay of Lyon (Barcelona to Monte Carlo). Carnival Dream has seas so rough between Messina and Barcelona that the had to cancel Barcelona, hide behind Corsica and go to Monte Carlo early. You just can't ever say for sure. EM

[Y's Owl]

On my April 1996 cruise on the Maasdam there were very rough seas at Monte Carlo. We were supposed to have been there a day and a half, arriving late on the first day and spending the entire rest of the next day there. On the late afternoon when we got there, there were high winds and the crew tried to get the tenders going, but it was too rough. Instead the ship moved into a nearby harbor called St. Jean Sur Mere which hid us from the winds so the tenders could take passengers to a nearby marina where there were buses to take the gamblers back to Monte Carlo. The next morning the winds were gone and the ship moved back to Monte Carlo so the folks could tender to their tours of the royal castle grounds, nearby Nice, France and lunch at Ez Village. On the whole though, I would say that the Mediterranean was more tranquil than the Caribbean and certainly less rough than the Pacific.

[Harry1954]

We have experienced the Med Cruises six or seven times and only once did we have really rough seas - a force 12 hurricane off the coast of Rhodes. It was apparently something they could not get around and could not stay in port as it blasted into Greece with a vengeance. They indicated this was one of those 100 year storms .. so I suggest that you will almost always find calm seas and a wonderful time.
harry