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My View: I See a Cruise on the Horizon! (Semi-Live)
Not this horizon:

 
This HORIZON 😀
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Live from the Breakaway March 17-31, 2024
Winter bumped up against spring today with blustery showers. In a moment of clear skies, the neighbour kids ran across my lawn with their Nerf guns poised and I took a moment to pause at their freedom and joy.
 
My own joy happens in a few days as I embark on the Breakaway for a B2B. This will be a different cruise as I am solo for the first week then have 3 friends (2 from home, 1 from Cruise Critic) joining for the second leg.

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LIVE from the SUN Princess - 9 Mar 2024 - 10-Day Mediterranean - Second Voyage
Hello everyone, and welcome to another one of my "Live" reports.
This time it's the brand-new Sun Princess, sailing on a 10-day voyage from Barcelona to Rome. Our ports incl

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Live from the Breakaway 3/10 - 3/17
I know I’m not the only CC member doing a live from this cruise, and it won’t be as exciting as the other live cruise reports this week since we are on the ship to relax after two months of stress and interrupted sleep.
No shore excursions planned unless you consider a trip to the Mega Store in Cozumel an “excursion “

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Live From Viking Star -- 18 March 2024 to 01 April 2024 -- Transatlantic FLL/BCN
Flying in to FLL non-stop from Philly tomorrow morning.  Looking forward to being back on Star, and meeting fellow pax. Another pax is organizing a M&M, so will report back when details are known.

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*LIVE* from the MSC Seascape – 7-Night Eastern Caribbean – March 16-23, 2024
Join The Bird live on a St. Patrick’s Day getaway to the Eastern Caribbean on the stunning MSC Seascape. This 7-night adventure embarks in Miami and calls at Nassau, San Juan, Puerto Plata, and MSC Marine Reserve - Ocean Cay. The Seascape is the fourth and newest ship in MSC’s Seaside Class featuring impressive outdoor spaces and features built for Caribbean cruising.  

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Oasis of the Seas Live, March 10th - 17th.  Ain't no better place, ain't no better time than here and now.
Kenny Chesney said it best, Better get to livin', 'cause all we've got is here and now. 
 
It’s time to start another Andrew, Lisa and Owen review, this time on Oasis of the Seas. We fly tomorrow to Miami and we board the ship Sunday.  We are already at our preflight hotel in Toronto. 

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Live from Voyager, Rio to Lisbon, 19 March - 6 April 2024
As a means of putting off the task of packing my bags, I thought I'd kick off the conversation here.  Later this afternoon we'll head off to LHR where we're staying overnight before an early morning flight to Rio tomorrow, via Madrid.  There follows a couple of nights in the JW Marriott in Copacabana, Rio before boarding Voyager on Tuesday morning.  As usual, I'll aim to update my Elegant Sufficiency blog daily, internet and time permitting, and will drop in here now and again. 

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TxTeach79's Norwegian Sun Spring Break Shorty LIVE - 3/13/24
Well then... Hello there!! 
 
It's time to fire up my little appetizer NCL Live for '24, a four day Bahamarama Spring Break bonanza on the ol' Sun. If you're unfamiliar, my better half @HelloItsMeB and I are sailing on a 10-day Pearl from Trieste in June, so that will be a much more substantial and (hopefully) interesting ride, but let's be honest, it's been a decade long year at work thus far, and the spring break respite couldn't be appreciated more. Soooo, if you're into the inherent and inevitable chaos of a Spring Break 4 day, this is the place!

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Live From Celebrity Constellation 3/11-3/23
Hello everyone!
 
It's that time again, time to set sail on another cruise adventure. Monday I will be boarding Celebrity Constellation for a 12 Night Ultimate Caribbean & The Americas cruise. Although I usually sail solo, I am excited to be bringing my mom along for the ride on this one.

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a magnificent LIVE Review... MSC Magnifica... March 18, 2024 - March 22, 2024
Hey fellow cruisers! 
 
I was indecisive as to whether to attempt a live a review as I'm winging it I feel like on this cruise. I booked this cruise a few months ago when I decided I wanted to try cruising solo, as well as to try cruising a new to me cruise line. 
 
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I've sailed on over 40 cruises between Carnival (Platinum) and Royal (Diamond+). I usually sail with either my youngest daughter or one of my cruise buddy girlfriends. I've read so many wonderful solo reviews lately it's prompted me to want to start sailing solo myself.....n

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LIVE from Radiance 3/15 - St Patrick’s Cruise
Hello everyone! Figured now is a good time to start this live as I am currently sitting on a train. I also live blogged our 11-Night Regal Princess back in December, but I suspect this 3-day spring break/St Patrick’s Day cruise will be a bit of a different vibe lol. For introductions, I am Beth, I am 22 which is younger than most Cruise Critics users I realize but I’ve been cruising all my life and I really love it. I believe this is number 15? I am an Economics and Data Science Masters student (about to graduate!) and I will be cruising with my sister @kruisin_kt who is 25 and a Machine Learning PhD student. So needless to say, we are both ready for a fun weekend getaway.

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LIVE from ms Rotterdam March 17-29, 2024
Some of you may have read the blog I usually write on cruises.  This time I am just going to have this "Live" thread.  I will try to update it each day provided my stamina and the onboard internet cooperate.  
 
We fly out before dawn on Saturday morning and arrive in FLL around 9am. 

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Will it be Bliss?  Our first NCL Post-Covid Cruise - Live!
Greetings Cruise Critic!  
We're sailing on the Bliss out of LA tomorrow - 7 night Mexican Riveria - all new ports for us!  When planning, I couldn't get excited about the Caribbean or eastern Mexico cruises - we'd hit nearly all those ports a time or 5  over our two decades of cruising.  We are time limited due to college spring break so Europe was out of the question.  West coast cruise it is! 

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Semi Live NCL Breakway March 17 to March 24
We are boarding the NCL Breakway tomorrow in New Orleans for 7 days. Will post some daily updates. I know that there have been a lot of Live updates from the Breakway lately, but might as well.
 
My partner and I and the in laws have two balcony cabins on deck 14.
 
We were on the Escape for New Years Eve and overall had a good time.

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Kids in the Yacht Club Live Thread?
I'll be cruising on the Seascape in the YC with my wife and 9 and 7 year old kids starting Saturday (March 23)... Are there any families in here who would be interested in the experience from a family's perspective?

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Live Review, MSC Seashore - March 14-17
Hey cruise friends!
 
We are leaving tomorrow for a quick 3 night cruise on the MSC Seashore out of Port Canaveral.  This is our first time on MSC, and our shortest cruise we have taken, so really looking forward to a new experience.  I saw most of the recent reviews of the Seashore was for the Yacht Club.  We are in a regular (deluxe) balcony on the 12th deck, so this will focus on the non-yacht club experience.

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Almost Live from NCL Viva 3/10/24
Hello all and welcome!
 
This is an almost live trip from the NCL VIVA March 10 departure. As I begin to write this intro, we are setting sail and we are in the San Juan Basin Turn departing the Pan American pier at 8:30 local. We are an experienced cruise couple from Michigan, sailing with friends for our first time as a couple on NCL.

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Spring Break...away - Semi-Live from the NCL Breakaway! March 10-17, 2024
We're a family of 4 heading out on our first cruise on NCL over Spring Break.  I am 43, the wife is 41, and the kids are 13 (boy) and 12 (girl).  All of our cruising as a family of 4 has been on Carnival and my wife and I have a few other cruises on Princess.  We're looking forward to exploring what NCL has to offer!  The goal of this trip is to just get away, as a family.  Work for me has been wild this year and I have experienced some work-load led stress.  I need a week away, though I plan to check in daily and forward emails as needed.

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“Live” from Celebrity Beyond March 11th
The last year has been hard, so I really needed and expected an excellent cruise.  So the Beyond had some difficult challenges to meet.  
We are on the Beyond from Monday March 11th to Friday March 22nd

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Live from Sun Princess | 9 March | 10 Day Barcelona - Rome
Good morning from a wet and windy Barcelona.

I'm sitting onboard the Windstar Star Legend eagerly awaiting embarkation on the Sun Princess this afternoon. I'll share an update each day about the experience onboard, along with some photos and videos. I was glad to see the majority of venues are to be open for this sailing. I am looking forward to some of the arena shows. 

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LIVE from the Discovery Princess:  California Coastal, March 9 -16 ... A Princess/Celebrity Comparison
Hi, Everyone!
 
I've commandeered my wife's account here so I can give you a live account of our experience aboard the Discovery Princess.  
 
To set the stage, we hold Elite status on Celebrity and Platinum on Princess.  It's interesting that the Platinum benefits on Princess are actually better than the Elite benefits on Celebrity.  Our last cruise on Princess was a decade ago after which we abandoned Princess and moved to Celebrity.

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Live-ish on our First non Celebrity Cruise. Scenic Eclipse II: Chile to French Polynesia. 13 March to 1 April.
Our first time dipping our toes in non-Celebrity waters. After 13 years of cruising exclusively with Celebrity we’ve taken the plunge and decided to spread our wings and try other cruising options.
 
First stop is Scenic Eclipse and the second of what they describe as ultra-luxury discovery yachts. We pondered moving over to the smaller ships but were concerned we might not like the smaller number of passengers. I guess we’re all or  nothing kind of people as the Scenic Eclipse yachts have a maximum 0f 224 guests, with a maximum of 200 in the Polar regions.

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Live-ish! Journey Across the Pacific: Easter Island & French Polynesia on Scenic Eclipse II
Given that the Scenic Ocean Voyages Forum is somewhat quiet, I thought I’d drop in and do a Live-ish review of our Transpacific voyage on Scenic Eclipse II which sets sail on Wednesday 13 March.
 
We will be first time Scenic Cruisers having been Celebrity loyalists for the past 13 years. We needed a change but weren’t sure we would enjoy a small ship. So here we are about to try a yacht with up to 224 guests, go figure?

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Carnival Radiance Feb26-March 1, 2024 live-ish
This is our 8th in a row cruise on Carnival Radiance since covid restart as we can drive from Vegas area to Long Beach.
Even when we are not flying we like to arrive a day ahead for a cruise. This trip the day before cruise, fell on 4th Sunday of the month.

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