Just booked the 1 day!

[lbt43]

Seattle to Vancouver on the 30th on the Oosterdam. Excited!

[sail7seas]

Have fun........
Should be a fun 'party'.

[PathfinderEss]

Congratulations, I hear it is a heck of a party.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Congratulations!!

Make the most of your 1 night cruise.

[KirkNC]

Do you even bring luggage on is?

[Cruising-along]

Have fun! I'm actually surprised you could get a cabin this close to sailing. Those coastals usually sell out fast.

I have a 3-day booked for next May, to introduce my best friend to cruising. Then she'll find out what I've been talking about all these years.

[djhsolara]

What happens on a 1-day cruise? Sounds like it would be a fun little get-away but how does it work?

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[innlady1]

Wow...can't even imagine a one day cruise! Let us know if it is worth the effort of packing, embarking, disembarking, and unpacking!

[Cruising-along]

Originally Posted by djhsolara

What happens on a 1-day cruise? Sounds like it would be a fun little get-away but how does it work?

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As long as you treat a one-nighter as a nice dinner and evening out, they can be great. You basically have about 22 hours onboard max, so obviously it isn't the experience we have on longer cruises. Everything is the same, just in a very condensed version.

For those of us who live near Seattle and Vancouver, these short coastals are wonderful. We've gone on 1, 3, and 4 day coastals, and HAL sometimes has 5-day. I'm looking at a 3-day next year that goes from Vancouver to San Francisco. There are others that go to LA and San Diego.

[djhsolara]

Originally Posted by Cruising-along

As long as you treat a one-nighter as a nice dinner and evening out, they can be great. You basically have about 22 hours onboard max, so obviously it isn't the experience we have on longer cruises. Everything is the same, just in a very condensed version.

For those of us who live near Seattle and Vancouver, these short coastals are wonderful. We've gone on 1, 3, and 4 day coastals, and HAL sometimes has 5-day. I'm looking at a 3-day next year that goes from Vancouver to San Francisco. There are others that go to LA and San Diego.

If I lived near a port where these were offered I'd be all over it!!



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[vivavegas]

Enjoy your cruise! Let us know all about it!

[luvcruisn']

Originally Posted by KirkNC

Do you even bring luggage on this?

Originally Posted by djhsolara

What happens on a 1-day cruise? Sounds like it would be a fun little get-away but how does it work?

I did a 1 day cruise from Vancouver to Seattle on the Zuiderdam. I used it as a fun way to get to Tacoma, Washington (not far from Seattle) as I wanted to visit the glass museum there. I took a carry-on, so it was easy to board in Vancouver. After arriving in Seattle, I took public transit outside the pier area to downtown Seattle, and caught an express bus to Tacoma. In the evening I took the public rail from the glass museum to the train station, and then took Amtrak back to Vancouver. I had a great time.

This 1 day cruise was the last night of a longer cruise, so the usual activities were offered. There was a show of some kind - I don't remember what it was; there was someone playing in the piano bar, and the casino was open, although it closed a little earlier than on longer cruises. The people who boarded in Vancouver could eat in the main dining room, Lido, or Pinnacle, or get room service for dinner, but there was no fixed dining. There were some rowdy young adults on board, but it was easy to ignore them.

The best way is to get onboard as early as possible, so you have more hours onboard to enjoy the ship. Many people go down to the terminal early, and just wait to go onboard. I got onboard around 3pm. By then the Lido was quite crowded, and some of the food choices were already gone, but there was still a lot to choose from. After the evening show the Lido had pizza and some other items available, so I and some of the people I met onboard had a late snack. There was time for breakfast in the morning before getting off of the ship. There was a bit of a line to disembark, even at 9:30am, but it went fairly smoothly.

The 1 day cruise that I took fell on my days off, so I didn't have to use any of my vacation time. This year the coastals don't fit into my schedule, but I would definitely do it again - perhaps a 3 or 4 day one next time.

[fleckle]

Originally Posted by Cruising-along

For those of us who live near Seattle and Vancouver, these short coastals are wonderful. We've gone on 1, 3, and 4 day coastals, and HAL sometimes has 5-day. I'm looking at a 3-day next year that goes from Vancouver to San Francisco. There are others that go to LA and San Diego.

They can also be great for those who don't live near Seattle or Vancouver, to ride down the coast to California after an Alaska cruise at the end of the season.

Or even better is to pick a ship that next does Panama Canal cruises, for those who have the time, and remain on board for the next leg eastbound through the Panama Canal to the east coast.
Or even stay on to ride it back westbound through the Panama Canal again.

Some people who live in or near Florida or California like to book full transit B2B's through the canal round trip to end up back where they started, avoiding the need to fly one way.

[Randyk47]

I guess if I still lived in the Seattle-Tacoma area, which I still consider my "hometown", I'd do a one nighter but obviously flying from Texas to Washington for a one night cruise, unless I had other reasons or business in the area, makes no sense. Years and years ago the ex and I took a four day cruise out of Port Canaveral just to see if we liked cruising. It was on the Carnival Fantasy and it basically was a four day long party but it was fun. Our TA at the time asked us what we liked and didn't like about the cruise and based on our answers put us on Holland America. Point is that these short cruises can be fun and serve a useful purpose though not sure I'd make a go or no-go decision on cruising just on a one night cruise.

[Cruising-along]

Originally Posted by fleckle

They can also be great for those who don't live near Seattle or Vancouver, to ride down the coast to California after an Alaska cruise at the end of the season.

Or even better is to pick a ship that next does Panama Canal cruises, for those who have the time, and remain on board for the next leg eastbound through the Panama Canal to the east coast.
Or even stay on to ride it back westbound through the Panama Canal again.

Some people who live in or near Florida or California like to book full transit B2B's through the canal round trip to end up back where they started, avoiding the need to fly one way.

So true, good point.

[mamaofami]

A 1 day cruise is better than no cruise. Wish I lived close enough.

[Typhoon1]

Sounds like a fun trip. After boarding, it will be time to disembark before you know it.

[cruising cockroach]

These short cruises are often never fully sold. Inside cabins currently run $49 for one cruise and $69 for the other. Looks like SZ is $95 for either. The HAL cruises are to move the ships from Seattle to the Caribbean (though there is one that goes trans-Pacific) and they can't be sold Seattle-southern California due to PVSA so there's a termination in Vancouver, and you cannot sail back-to-back on the same ship.

I think there's 2 1-day sailing in a row (Westerdam sails day before). Princess has a few too. I've heard some people use this to quickly run up their status (FWIW) for not much money, and some people even book on consecutive days to log 2 cruises in <48 hrs.

[luvcruisn']

Originally Posted by cruising cockroach

These short cruises are often never fully sold.

I think there's 2 1-day sailings in a row (Westerdam sails day before). Princess has a few too. I've heard some people use this to quickly run up their status (FWIW) for not much money, and some people even book on consecutive days to log 2 cruises in <48 hrs.

Sometimes they are very close to sold out. I heard one cruiser who was on the longer cruise complain bitterly to the front desk about the approximately 1500 people boarding the Zuiderdam in Vancouver for the one night sailing. The front desk person said that there was nothing she could do, and for the complainant to write head office in Seattle.

I might take a 4 day cruise to get to 4 star mariner status. My mom only likes the coastals now, and that would be just enough after my next long cruise to get me to that coveted 4 star - for me, for the priority tendering.