Live Cruise Reports

DAY 1 - Dublin   It’s time for our first Silversea adventure!  Off we go on our expedition cruise to the British Isles and “off the beaten path” northern and eastern Iceland.  This trip is unusual for us because every destination is new.  Essentially, new cruise line, new ship, new ports, and new friends 🤗.   We arrived in Dublin ☘️ on Sunday and had 3 full days to explore.  The weather was just about ideal.

Hello to all fellow cruisers!  This is Roberto (Z)  and Pam (TB) from Port St Lucie, Fl getting ready for our sixteenth Regent cruise.  We are sailing from Miami to New York City from 24 June until 10 July.  We will hit the ABC islands and head north along the windward islands ending up in Puerto Rico before sailing up to Bermuda. 

Hello.  This is my first Holland Cruise and blog.  I would have started it sooner, but due to a family situation, it’s been crazy these last few days as we tried to get everything done in an afternoon.
 
Anyway, here I go.  I’m Abby and I’m traveling with Glen, my DH.  We’re very experienced Princess and Celebrity cruisers, but about a year and a half ago friends ours booked two Holland cruises, and invited us to join them.

Heading off to Bermuda this week. Another island to check off the list. I don't generally travel during the heat of the summer with the children on board. I am becoming a grumpy old lady. 🙂 I picked this trip for the island and not the ship. It does seem to be small. Will be the first time sailing out of New York

This thread will contain some random posts during our expedition voyage on Silver Endeavour in Svalbard, from June 19 to 29, 2025.
 
It's not going to be a full 'live from' because they will keep us too busy to allow that.  I will do a full review and daily blog after we get home [which will probably take me a month or more to process, as this cruise follows an expedition cruise in the Scottish Hebrides on Noble Caledonia Island Sky]

Hello-  Spouse and I are on a Vancouver to Seward cruise, boarding tomorrow.  This will be our second Viking Ocean cruise, and we’ve done river cruises with a few different lines.  No other ocean cruises.  We were on the Star in January, and the ship itself wow’d us: no crowding, so many nooks and crannies, relaxing music in the atrium, good coffee in the Living Room.  Really happy to be sailing to Alaska.

Hi fellow CC people!! I am soooo excited to start this LIVE, not only because we (Bethany and Craig) will be cruising on MG but I have a beeeeeg surprise for the birthday boy!! Come join me as the clock ticks closer to the reveal😎

Hello everyone!
 
It's been two months but it is finally time to set sail again. This time I am back on my old friend Celebrity Reflection. Despite the similarities, although I enjoyed Silihoutte, I think I prefered Reflection in every metric that matters. One small gripe would be the Mast Grill being on a different deck from the indoor seating, but in the grand scheme of things, Reflection wins hands down so I am very excited that my next two sails on Celebrity will be back on this wonderful ship!

Greetings CC family!
 
We're back and this time it is just my son and I setting sail on the beautiful MSC Meraviglia from Brooklyn, NY.

A beautiful morning for embarkation, we will be boarding in a couple of hours.  Great view of the Ocean terminal Southampton, just up the street from our hotel

We’re heading out on the Legend June 9, 2025 for a 10-day cruise to Alaska. I’m hoping to post random photos and thoughts throughout the trip. 
 
We fly DFW-SFO tomorrow for a few pre-cruise days in San Francisco. Current confirmed plans are an evening Alcatraz tour Saturday evening and a tour booked through Tours By Locals for Sunday morning. 

Departing from Copenhagen this morning. Not a giant port, relatively easy to get into. The embarkation process for the YC was smooth as usual. Corralled for a few minutes while they checked us in, then brought up to the top sail lounge for welcome drinks.

It is finally time for our 2025 cruise!  I feel like I have been waiting forever for this day to get here. Our last cruise was last July through the Norwegian Fjords, after that cruise we did a land trip back in Norway and got to meet so much family, it was amazing. This winter I also did a solo trip to Costa Rica, it was great. 

I'm starving and hate to cook for myself, and that's why I'm getting back on a ship!! 😁
 
I also like to do "live from" so that's why I'm back after only 2 days  🤣
 
I booked this on Liberty over a year ago. I've done this sailing a number of times. I really enjoy Halifax. The added plus is that Liberty is one of my favorite ships. The crew on this ship is outstanding and just makes you feel as though you are family. I'm also back on again in a few weeks to do the same sailing. That one I'm bringing my granddaughter Adrianna along since school is finally out.

We were in Vancouver for a few days before embarkation,  so we had much less urgency to board, as we were already in vacation mode. Lol
 
When we found our way to check in ( picking up our medallions) it was insanely fast. Of course there was no one else there at the time about 9:30am.  Sat outside for a bit until it was after 10 hoping to board. Yes it's a long walk, and when we landed in queue, just have to stand. Did not love that, as I was pretty sore from sightseeing prior.

Or maybe I should say Live from the Riviera in Alaska. We flew in to Denver yesterday and have an Oceania supplied flight from here. There was no credit for not taking the flight so here we are. We have a nonstop to ANC, that was one of the reasons we took DEN as the gateway. 

So here we are again, it’s time! 
Time to start the adventure on NCL. 
 
For those new to me and us….
We are Jarle & Alexandra from Norway 🇳🇴 

The Vikings goes “home”
We are seasoned cruisers on X. 
If you look in my signature ✍️ you will find older lives from X sailings. 
 
We are an active couple from Oslo, Norway.

Cruise day is finally here. We booked this about a year ago. Several months ago my DH best friend and his family decided to join us. We are all beyond excited. I will try to post daily as well as post pics (I'm not a pic person). 
We are currently headed to the port. We had an few issues:
one member of our crew needs a root canal - we have Tylenol, Ibuprofen and Aleve and the drink package to help w the pain. 
one member of our crew had a work trip to Vegas and was supposed to be home last night. She's stuck in Nashville waiting for a flight to Philadelphia or NJ. Hopefully she will make it but if not we are hoping she can join us in Port Canaveral (if anyone has any advice we will take it). 
me and DH are staying in a suite and will be eating mostly in coastal kitchen or WJ. The rest of our crew love the dining room so they will eat most dinners there. We will be eating one night at Chops, this is also a graduation gift/party of one of our crew and he loves steaks!  We also have a cabana at hideaway bay. If anyone has any questions let me know. 
 

Aloha and ahoy there, CC-er’s!   We boarded Venture yesterday, for just under a month of frolicking with Arctic wildlife, and onboard wildlife as well.  (Yeah, right).   This one does the Svalbard stuff first, then down the east coast of Greenland, quite a few stops in Iceland, and several Scottish isles, before ending in Greenwich.  

Getting ready to do it again…without falling down the stairs this time, hopefully!  We leave YYZ on Tuesday and arrive in Lyon after a shorter-than-my-comfort-level layover at CDG.
 
Come along as we embark on our 11 day Spectacular Southern France itinerary.  We cancelled our self planned Paris 4 day pre-tour when we found out DH couldn't have his knee replacement until after this paid for holiday.  So to save his knees we decided to do something we have never done before - fly in the day before the river cruise.  Perhaps it is our winters which have us usually flying in a minimum of 2 days early. No snow in the forecast so 🤞all will be fine.

It's been a long 9 months since my last cruise, so this short and "suite" 4-night to Coco Cay and Nassau is the perfect quick escape! I don't think I've sailed in the summer months since 2006, as we tend to be spring/fall cruisers while most kiddos are in school. But, since this is a cruise especially for my kiddo and his best friend (DH and I are just tagging along 😉), summer was the only time to sail, so here we are! 

And so begins my first attempt at a live!
 
Boarding in Vancouver was a breeze. Got to Canada Place via the oh so luxurious Canada Line train at 1040, made it to Hall C for checkin and luggage drop at 1045, 1050 was at security, 1053 was customs, got a green light and was on board at 1055. The huge amounts of walking appear to have been pared down, and this is a 3 ship day at the pier so well done!!

Good morning everyone! I’m currently on board the Enchanted on a seven night Eastern Caribbean cruise. I wasn’t planning on doing a live, but I haven’t seen anyone else from this cruise make a thread yet, so I figured I could do a more casual one.
 
We had embarkation yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, and we’ll be in Princess Cays today. More notes and comments to follow. Welcome aboard!

Going to do as much as I can in 'near real-time" for this short 7-night cruise from Cape Liberty to Port Canaveral, Nassau,  Cocco Cay and back. 
 
 Our middle grandson granduated from college in May and told his mom, our daughter that he wanted a cruise for his graduation present. 
 Our daughter let him pick out the cruise and this is the one he chose.  They then asked us if we would like to join them and of course we said yes. 

Greetings CC fam!

I know the MAS forum here on CC is not very active so I usually wouldn't do a Live onboard a MAS ship but somebody asked if I'd do one so I'm going to try to keep up as I have moments.