What is your sleep schedule when you cruise?

[Virtopia]

Typically I get to my cabin around 12:30 or 1am. I like the nighttime activities and I do like walking the decks a few times when no one is around. On port days when it's a new port, I'll get up early to catch the arrival. If it's a port I either don't like or have been to many times, I am in bed until about 10am. I get my best sleep on a cruise so I don't rush out of my bed if I don't have to. On sea days, I'll let the steward know the night before that I'll be in my room late and will normally miss breakfast.

[DrD]

I did go with a balcony [emoji2]. Just a random thought, I have realized that I can snore quite loud. I'm actually hesitant to allow myself to fall asleep anywhere besides my cabin for the sake of annoying others and embarrassment. Does anyone have any experience as a snorer or witnessing public snoring on cruise?

 

 

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In 14 cruises I've never noticed. Someone must have snored, it's probably just one of those things no one notices.

[Annabanana1234]

I have great intentions to stay up late and get up early...but there is something about the sea air and rocking of the ship that makes me sleepy! I find that I'm ready for bed at 10 and sea days I can sleep in to about 10am!

[mcatmcat]

For us we get get to bed between 3:30 an 5:00 A.M. and get up around noon to 1:00 P.M. for lunch.

 

 

What can you do outside your cabin after3am? we don't find anything ingesting to do. All decks and public areas are empty.

 

 

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[mcatmcat]

[emoji843]Day 1 3am-9am

[emoji843]Day 2 4am-9am

[emoji843]Day 3 330am-9am (excursion?- 8am)

[emoji843]Day 4 3am-9am

[emoji832]Day 5 3am-11am ( refuse to wake up - room service which is not going to happen now 8$)

[emoji843]Day 6 2am-9am

[emoji840]Day 7 4am or later -8am

 

 

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[dwayneb236]

I'm in bed around 10ish. I'll wake up between 430 and 5. Quietly leave so as not to wake up the wife. Go out to the track, do my thing. Get some coffee and just wander till around 7 when the wife will be up.

 

I love my early morning quiet times. Hardly anyone up but the staff. Relaxing.

[Chicago Cruise Lover 312]

We stay up every night as late as we possibly can (2/3 AM) and wake up in the morning around 7:30-8AM.

We find the key to maintaining this schedule and not feeling gross is to take a 2 hour nap before getting ready for dinner (usually 3-5 PM) since we do late seating. Then we get up and shower for the night time activities.

 

This helps to make the cruise days feel longer and staying up later helps you experience the ship with less people wandering.

[Tatka]

It depends on my lifestyle phase at that point. If I am on my good behavior, I exercise from 6-7:30 in gym... then I sleep at 10 pm... (10pm-5:45 am), if not it us 11or11:30 to 7 am

 

On Royal I sometimes make trips to Promenade cafe at 2-3 am :)

[Cruising7in2017]

Wow! You guys don't sleep much! We are going this time with our 3 young children, so I am hoping to nap since they get up at 6 am and they are very energetic! I don't expect us to make it past midnight unless we can get everyone to nap or maybe use the kids club and take a nap ourselves!

[Cinders411]

If you are a pool person get up early 700-730 and go grab a lounger.

 

Sadly, this is me while DH slumbers away for hours :D.

[JAMESCC]

We don't have a schedule of any kind because we have a young son, 3 now, 4 by the time we sail again in Sept. on Anthem. This will be his 3rd cruise and he is only going to be 4 at the time of sailing. I love hearing everyone's different schedules though, its interesting. Its getting me even more excited for our next cruise.

[rodenboy]

I always say "I'll stay up late and enjoy the parties into the small hours."

 

In reality, I'm out for the count by midnight. In fairness, midnight on "ship time" on cruises out of Port Everglades is 5am UK time so that's an achievement in itself!! (British cruiser!)

 

 

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[anne.brumlevestaley]

I'm in bed around 10ish. I'll wake up between 430 and 5. Quietly leave so as not to wake up the wife. Go out to the track, do my thing. Get some coffee and just wander till around 7 when the wife will be up.

 

I love my early morning quiet times. Hardly anyone up but the staff. Relaxing.

 

 

Me too! I'm an early riser and love to go to the gym before sunrise and the. Walk the deck and sometimes chill out in a chair while the sun comes up. I usually nap poolside in the afternoon.

 

Enjoy your vacation and do what YOU want to do.

 

 

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[TryingCruising]

We usually stay out late (for us) the first night and head to bed around 1-2AM. Then we're usually up at 8 the next morning. As cruises go on, we tend to get to bed earlier. We love ending the day unwinding with a nightcap on our balcony. And after a tasty dinner and drink, the ship rocking is usually pulling me to sleep! We often walk an outside deck after dinner to wake a bit!

We also appreciate some late afternoon time in the cabin to nap or relax before dinner. The last night we try to stay up, but I'm usually worn out!

 

And now we have a child. We haven't cruised since becoming parents, but I think it'll be much earlier nights in the cabin and earlier mornings out :)

[easyboy]

In bed between 12-1am. Up by 8am, or earlier depending on shore excursion schedule.

[sky0000547]

I'm not a late party animal so my sleeping pattern on a cruise is very similar to what I do at home. I will normally be in my cabin by 10-11pm but it would be later if there is a late show on like The Quest or Love & Marriage.

 

I will get up between 7-8am or perhaps lounge around on the bed for awhile and watch The Morning Show. If I need to hit the gym then I will do it before breakfast.

[vacationlover_mn]

We used to stay up late (for us)... midnight, 12:30, then get up between 7 and 9. Now that we've gotten older, my sleep schedule is pretty lame... on the last cruise, I'd be sleepy around 9, and go to bed between 10 & 11, and then I'd way up between 5&6. DH usually slept till 7/8.

 

 

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[bigque]

Hey......You Have To Do You! Only you know the times you want to sleep and the times you want to be up. When we cruise we are on completely different time schedules. I like to hang out late at night and go to the clubs, people watch, casino, etc and then go in about 1:00 and then may sit on the balcony with the nice breeze checking out the stars, hearing the ship glide through the water and sometimes nod out and then wake and go to bed......She likes to go in early. May do something late night sometimes but most times she is in early. I get up every morning and go and watch and take pictures of the sunrise. She is still sleep during this time. So as I said our go to sleep and wake up times is completely different! :cool:

[Warm Breezes]

If we have an excursion that sets our schedule for the day. Otherwise I normally wake up in time to see the sunrise while DH typically sleeps in longer. We are usually out the door by 9-10 for breakfast. We usually head back to the room around 2-3. DH will take a nap in the room and I will sit out on the balcony to read but end up falling asleep. Then we are up and out until sometime between 11 pm and 1 am. Without that nap we just can't stay up that late.

[sanger727]

Ugh, reading all of these responses is making me tired. Sleeping is my favorite part of vacation! Getting up before sunrise is def not my idea of a vacation. We usually go to dinner and then the late show at 9:30; then a quick snack at the buffet and in our rooms by 11 to wind down. Usually sleep midnight to 8 or 9.

 

 

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[Pier290]

Sleeping is for when u are dead! I love to get the most of every day on vacation!!! I also am a CHAIR HOG so I'm up super early to get sun chairs, coffee, a spicy bloody, and sunrise views!!! It helps that I nap in the sun during the days also 😎

 

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[Haoie]

Quite similar to a normal work day. Bed before midnight, up before 8. I don't tend to stay up late, and if I sleep in I feel like I'm wasting the day!

[Hlitner]

We suspect the OP will get as many different answer as there are cruisers :). On short (7 day to us is very short) cruises we used to truly burn the midnight oil and often not get to bed until 2am (or later), On sea days we might have slept in until 9....but on port days we were up pretty early. When we did those 7 day cruises we were much younger....and would catch-up on sleep after the cruise. Now, as seniors who take mostly longer cruises (some 2 months+) we simply vary our sleep habits based on what is happening at the time. If there is a decent late night (to us, midnight is not even late) crowd...we might be there enjoying the conversation. On other cruises, like many longer HAL cruises, we might go to bed by 11....because we are about the only one's awake after 10 pm.

 

Hank

[navybankerteacher]

Regularly have room service OJ and coffee at 7:00 -,then breakfast about 8:30. That means we've had five hours if we had called it a night at two, or nine hours if we had packed it in at ten. Any deficit would be made up for by a one or two hour nap during the day.

[SuiteTraveler]

Unfortunately a lot of these cruise ships make announcements that blare loudly in your cabin starting at 7:00am on a port day and 8:00 on a sea day, so sleeping in is usually not really an option unless you can easily fall asleep again.