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Old 02-19-2013, 09:51 AM
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Now is a good time to watch cruise prices. They may go down. Going again in November. Carnival Dream.
Sounds like a nice group of happy cruisers at TV. You've all been lucky.
Cruising isn't the in thing up here, however, the few we know from Vermont that have gone on cruises and expensive ones at that, must have chosen the wrong season......as they all said they were on the cruise from hell.....meaning turbulent seas, noro virus, that type of problem. Not being able to stand up during storms.........feeling they wasted their money. One young couple was sick for their entire honeymoon cruise to Mexico.

We've never been on a cruise.....but we have been on boats to Nantucket, to Martha's Vineyard, in Maine, in Florida and to Canada........

The one out of Portland Maine "overnight" to Yarmouth Nova Scotia with our car onboard was a "nightmare". We "sailed" in the evening and the "crew" were all joking and making sarcastic comments as folks were standing at the railing as the ship left Portland.......saying things like "Oh smell that fresh sea air"...."watch out for the rats, etc."......"don't step in the vomit"........really a bad crew. No sooner did it get out to sea, we knew what they meant............gale force winds.........couldn't even eat our dinner..........hardly could walk upright.

The next morning there was vomit all over the deck.

We had a cabin, one of the better ones, in the front of the ship.
A big one. That was the mistake. We should have chosen the middle of the ship.

All night long it was like being on an elevaor. Could not sleep.
Up and down..........it felt like up to the ceiling and then down like an elevator.

In the morning,neither of us could stand upright to take a shower.
My husband couldn't shave. It was the first time in my life I felt seasick.
We couldn't wait to get off that ship..........and get our car on dry land.
Luckily, the little frig in the cabin had some coca cola to settle our stomachs and some gingerale.

We spent two weeks touring all the Canadian Maritimes but had to come back on the same ship........I bought "sea bands" on Prince Edward Island, Canada and wore them on each wrist............however, the sea was as calm and tranquil as could be........it was during the day going back, not overnight like the voyage from hell.

Our other voyage to hell was visiting North Haven Island, Maine, which is ten miles out at sea from Rockland Maine........on a car ferry. No causeway and no bridge to this little island where our daughter was teaching school for a year before returning to Vermont for her masters degree...........we had my elderly parents with us and my stepfather was sick with a gall bladder attack, my mom had diarrhea and my husband was at the top of the boat getting drenched and shouting "Here comes another big one"........meaning wave. Our daughter was holding my hand and her grandmother's hand........and telling us we would be fine.
"Look, there's the island doctor in the next car".........she'd say.
I would think, "A lot of good that will do when this boat capsizes".
God got us to shore........or to the dock.........10 miles of rough weather.

She told us later that the captain told her that he never should have taken the boat back from Rockland to North Haven in those gale force winds....but knew people wanted to be home for the weekend.

After the long weekend, again our return trip,10 miles back, was nice and calm...........but one never knows what the weather will be.

Basically, it was an island of loberster fishermen and their families plus in the summer the ultra rich who had summer homes there. Pretty place.
Needs a causeway. ha ha.

Not particularly fond of how rough weather feels......on the ocean.

Our daughter in law's mom went on one of those luxury cruises on the Baltics......a river cruise........immediately after the Italian ship went down. She had good weather and enjoyed it.