What is the longest cruise?

[jocap]

The longest I'm aware of is a 62 day round trip from Southampton to the Caribbean, California and Mexico- back to Southampton. This is with Fred Olsen's Balmoral.

[MicCanberra]

Viking have a 87 night cruise around South America, NYC to LA. It is not being sold as segments to Australians (or any one else as far as I can tell) but it may well in other regions.

[navybankerteacher]

I thought it was 40 nights.:confused:

I wouldn't want to do it anyway, it was all bad weather, no ports of call and the smell aboard must have been terrible.

 

I think it was the rain that went on for 40 days and nights - certainly the later part of the “cruise” enjoyed better weather, given the several flights of certain passengers before one came back with - wasn’t it a twig from an olive branch? This, of course, suggests that either some parts of the surface of the earth had not been inundated at all, or that the flood had lasted so very long that the first parts to dry out were dry long enough for a leafy twig to be available ..... hmmmm.

[MicCanberra]

Naah, that was the Desert Safari on foot. ;)

I thought that one was 40 years?:confused:

[MicCanberra]

I think it was the rain that went on for 40 days and nights - certainly the later part of the “cruise” enjoyed better weather, given the several flights of certain passengers before one came back with - wasn’t it a twig from an olive branch? This, of course, suggests that either some parts of the surface of the earth had not been inundated at all, or that the flood had lasted so very long that the first parts to dry out were dry long enough for a leafy twig to be available ..... hmmmm.

That book makes some great reading, right up there with Tom Clancy or Lee child.

[CrossBluePerchance]

I thought that one was 40 years?:confused:

 

 

Naah, not Moses, JC in the Judaean Desert. Similar but different. ;)

[CrossBluePerchance]

I think it was the rain that went on for 40 days and nights - certainly the later part of the “cruise” enjoyed better weather, given the several flights of certain passengers before one came back with - wasn’t it a twig from an olive branch? This, of course, suggests that either some parts of the surface of the earth had not been inundated at all, or that the flood had lasted so very long that the first parts to dry out were dry long enough for a leafy twig to be available ..... hmmmm.

 

 

I've found fossilized sea life items atop an escarpment in the middle of Saudi Arabia......so ya never know.

[MicCanberra]

Naah, not Moses, JC in the Judaean Desert. Similar but different. ;)

Right, seems I need to read it all again just so I can compete better in trivia.;p

[Heidi13]

It is unlikely all 900 pax signed up for the full cruise

 

There are segments

 

LA to Sydney 38 days

Sydney to Lon 82 days Feb 11 to may 2

 

The 2019 WC Miami to London departing on Jan 3rd has recently had 5 segments issued.

 

However, I actually quoted the 2018 WC that departed LA in Jan 2018. Between LA & London, this cruise did NOT have any segments. I can't remember the exact pax count, but all 830 to 850 departing LA, were signed up for the entire cruise.

 

For the 2020 cruise, we currently have no segments between LA & London and since many categories are already sold out and cabin prices recently increased, I suspect it is selling well. At present, between LA & London, this cruise also has NO segments.

[LHT28]

For the 2020 cruise, we currently have no segments between LA & London and since many categories are already sold out and cabin prices recently increased, I suspect it is selling well. At present, between LA & London, this cruise also has NO segments.

very strange they have one from LA to Sydney

 

https://www.vikingcruisescanada.com/oceans/cruise-destinations/world-grand/south-pacific-the-land-down-under/index.html#search/sfym=2020-1&sftcm=27-120837

[Heidi13]

very strange they have one from LA to Sydney

 

https://www.vikingcruisescanada.com/oceans/cruise-destinations/world-grand/south-pacific-the-land-down-under/index.html#search/sfym=2020-1&sftcm=27-120837

 

Apologies, this one must have been released in the past few days, as I checked the schedules only a few days ago.

[SPacificbound]

We have Oceania Nautica out of Cape Town to Singapore which is 30 days.

 

We have done several longer voyages than that simply by streaming together a bunch of b2b cruises on the same ship, same cabin, the longest being 51 nights.

[bob brown]

very strange they have one from LA to Sydney

 

https://www.vikingcruisescanada.com/oceans/cruise-destinations/world-grand/south-pacific-the-land-down-under/index.html#search/sfym=2020-1&sftcm=27-120837

 

Apologies, this one must have been released in the past few days, as I checked the schedules only a few days ago.

Perhaps cruise lines hope initially to sell these ultra-long cruises as a single one, but after their sales algorithm's tell them that they are not going to accomplish that, they then divide them into two (or more) segments?

[MicCanberra]

Quite possibly, it may also do with regional sales. Sell a long cruise, not everyone can afford the time to do the long cruise and they end up with some empty cabins. So they see if they can coax people onto doing segments so that people who cannot cruise for the full length can still do three weeks or so.

[wowzz]

The longest I have seen without being broken into segments was 42 days.

P&O UK do 40 days on Arcadia, San Francisco to Hong Kong.

 

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[CrossBluePerchance]

Longest I ever did was in early 1963, Melbourne to Southampton, on the ~25,000 GT Northern Star across the Pacific, about 6 weeks as I recall.

 

Of course it wasn't considered 'cruising' back then, it was just using a ship to get from A to B. Six weeks of food and accommodation and still way cheaper than flying.

[MicCanberra]

Air travel was definitely for the rich back then.

[CrossBluePerchance]

Air travel was definitely for the rich back then.

 

 

Ship departures were a lot more fun...streamers tossed from the rails were tied to the dock.....and the "All Visitors Ashore" announcement was repeated over the P.A. until the tugs started moving the ship. Those were the days!

[MicCanberra]

I farewelled an aunty back in the early eighties and that was the case, changed soon after that.

[CrossBluePerchance]

I farewelled an aunty back in the early eighties and that was the case, changed soon after that.

 

Twenty years before then it was great......real farewells.....now ship sailings are only a few steps up from airports......sad to see it change like that.

[MicCanberra]

Yeah, but security needs to be in place as well.

[Heidi13]

Ship departures were a lot more fun...streamers tossed from the rails were tied to the dock.....and the "All Visitors Ashore" announcement was repeated over the P.A. until the tugs started moving the ship. Those were the days!

 

The TAR days back in the 70's & 80's were certainly fun days, with the ships having almost a carnival atmosphere throughout. The other difference was cash bars, as in those days even guests could purchase drinks at the bar.

 

However, for those of us working on the ships our challenge is we had no accurate count of how many guests were aboard. Many time have had the seamen tear down the gangway and then got stragglers wandering ashore. The steamers to shore and bands playing on deck created an amazing atmosphere.

[MicCanberra]

The coloured streamers dying the water before sinking and turning into pulp.