Live Cruise Reports

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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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. 
 
A little back information: 
 
 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Will be moving over from the HAL Nieuw Statendam to board the Celebrity Ascent on Sunday, March 3rd. A side to side is always an adventure and this one shouldn't be too much different since they generally dock nose to tail at Port Everglades (hope I didn't just jinx myself.)
 
Haven't sailed on Celebrity in several years (Summit and Equinox) and never on an Edge class ship; lots to learn.

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Morena. I really enjoy the live posts on Cruise Critic. So I thought I would have an attempt myself on our 6 night cruise from Sydney to Tasmania. This is our second Celebrity cruise. We did a South Pacific trip on the Solstice a few years ago. I booked this trip ages ago, and we got a great deal. An Aqua Class suite with Retreat access. Heading into Sydney the day before. And right now enjoying the Koru Lounge at Auckland airport 

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Hello, my Cruise Critic  family!
 
I am here yet again to help you all deal with either your post-cruise blues or your “my cruise isn’t approaching fast enough” blues. How do I plan to help with those problems, you ask? By letting you live vicariously through MY live review of this cruise, of course! Sure, you have to mix up your own cocktails, cook your own meals, and make your own bed, but at least you will ALMOST feel like you are on a ship…right?

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I've been a long-time lurker and reader here at CC now and have really enjoyed much of the content, especially many of the live cruise reports that have been provided over the years.  I'm a bit of a blogger, mainly for my own enjoyment and my family, and I had tried to do one of these last cruises with my wife, but had internet issues and turned it into a basic review vs. a Live post.  This time, I'm sticking to my decision and will do a Live From Thread, which I know will drive my wife and daughter crazy.

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Yes! She’s back!  After my grand adventure to Antarctica on Holland America, I return to Carnival, this time on the brand new Jubilee!
 
I was originally booked on the maiden TransAtlantic voyage of Jubilee that got cancelled; this is the earliest I could re-book after that happened.  Along the way, I’ve picked up 8 of my friends and family to cruise along with me. As you might know if you’ve read my prior LIVE! blogs, I don’t generally cruise with such a large group. And we have 5 first time ocean cruisers on this trip! It certainly is a bit like herding cats, but I’m here for it!

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Greetings HAL cruisers, we are about to embark on something very new to Tom and I. I thought many of you may be very interest in following our cruising on Windstar Sailing Yacht Wind Surf. Many long time Holland America Cruisers remember when Windstar Cruises was part of Holland America. To give you a bit of history for those that may be fairly new to Holland America in 1987 Holland America purchase 50% of Windstar Sail Cruises then in 1988 purchased the remaining 50% making Windstar Cruise part of Holland America. With Officers and Crew working on both lines.

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I don't know how long it will be before I bitterly regret setting out to do this but I'll try my best to keep anyone interested appraised of our trip starting next week. From the get go let's set some expectations: this is not going to be one of those 'live from's' that show you a picture of every moment / every drink / every toilet stop. It might well just be a summary catch up of the previous day or it might be a bit more than that - we'll just have to see...... 

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Greetings Fellow Cruisers, Welcome to My Live Report of our Travels to St Maarten to Board Wind Surf. My husband Tom and I are frequent cruisers. We started cruising in March 2002 with our first ship Royal Caribbean Monarch of the Seas sailing Western Caribbean. The following year April 2003 we sailed in the Inaugural year on the Holland America Zuiderdam. At that time Windstar Cruises was fully owned by Holland America under the Carnival umbrella. We became hooked on cruising and in the early years booked nothing but Holland America, in that time we became good friends with many Crew and Officers. In 2008 I had a bit of a career change that allowed me to start cruising other cruise lines. We also enjoyed Norwegian Cruise Lines, Princess and Celebrity but always went back home to Holland America

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Well, here’s another attempt at a “Live from” thread.  Of course it will be no where near as humorous or informative as the Live posts we read from some of our favorite denizens of the Celebrity Cruise Critic board. People like hcat, cruisestitch, abbydancer, love2crews, Lena11033, Jim_Iain, and most recently, the amazing GenerationX.  And those are just the ones I saw recently on the Boards.

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