Cruise-skepe - Cruise ships

Die boonste dek van 'n tipiese cruiseskip
Wees versigtigCOVID-19 inligting: Daar was baie uitbrake van COVID-19 (nuwe koronavirus) vroeg op 2020 op cruiseschepen. Infeksies kan maklik aan boord versprei, en mediese sorg aan boord is beperk. Te midde van 'n uitbraak is kwarantyne en dokke moeilik, deels vanweë die groot aantal mense aan boord. Die Amerikaanse en Kanadese regerings beveel aan reis van cruiseschepen vermy vir tyd en wyl. Ouer reisigers en mense met onderliggende gesondheidstoestande loop die grootste gevaar.

Sien amptelike advies:

(Inligting laas op 17 Augustus 2020 opgedateer)

Cruise-skepe is 'n reismiddel met aansienlike voordele, en enkele nadele. Sommige mense is lief vir hulle; ander gee nie om vir hulle nie. Dit maak dit maklik om verskeie plekke tydens 'n enkele reis te besoek, sonder dat u besittings moet herpak en 'n motor / trein / bus / vliegtuig gebruik om na elke plek te reis. Op 'n vaart kom u 'hotel' saam met u - kajuit, etes en vervoer, en selfs vermaak. U pak een keer uit, en kan gaan slaap Cabo San Lucas en word wakker in Puerto Vallarta, ensovoorts na ander bestemmings, om slegs aan die einde van die vaart weer te verpak. Dit kan 'n uitstekende reiservaring maak. U voel waar u is, word slegs aangetas deur nie kennis te neem van u reisplan en die daaglikse nuusbriewe wat u in u kajuit aflewer nie.

So 'n steekproefneming van verskillende hawens, stede, eilande of oewers in 'n streek kan u help om te besluit of en waar u later langer wil besoek. Tipiese reisroetes beperk die tyd wat u op elke plek deurbring; gewoonlik beteken dit net 'n dag van aktiwiteite of besigtiging. Dit kan ook een of meer dae op see insluit - die paradys as u 'n ontspannende dag by die swembad of ander aktiwiteite aan boord geniet, maar minder as u meer aktiewe en oop verkenning aan wal verkies. Desondanks weeg die voordele swaarder as die nadele vir genoeg mense om 'n groeiende bedryf te ondersteun.

Vandag kan u elke vasteland op aarde besoek, insluitend Antarktika, per cruiseskip. Eksotiese bestemmings, soos die Galapagos-eilande, word die beste besoek deur klein ekspedisievaartuie. Alhoewel hierdie vaarte duur is, sal u met kundige gidse reis.

Hierdie artikel fokus op seevaart en skepe. Cruise-skepe is slegs een van die vele opsies vir passasiersreis per see; veerbote bereik geïsoleerde kusuitsette sonder pad en eilande waar afstand of beperkte hoeveelheid verkeer die bou van snelwegbrug onprakties maak, rivierboot en vaarkanaal cruising bied 'n meer diepgaande, close-up kyk na baie lande in hul interieurs, terwyl die paar oorblywende oseaan voerings is nie ontwerp as swaai hotelle vir vermaak nie, maar as praktiese vervoervaartuie wat vir spoed gebou is. Vir reis met kleiner vaartuie, sien Vaar op klein vaartuie.

Verstaan

Die goue era van passasiersreise oorsee het vervaag. Die enkele oorlewende skepe uit die era van die groot oseaan voerings is meestal omskep in 'n vaart, bewaar as museums en / of hotelle, of is onderliggend. Dit beteken nie dat die reis per skip oor die see ook weg is nie. In werklikheid, die hedendaagse passasierskepe soms vinniger as die oseaanboorders van ouds, en op sommige maniere luukser - en u hoef nie eersteklaskaartjies te koop om die meeste daarvan te geniet nie. Die Cunard "Queens" Koningin Mary 2, Koningin Victoria en Koningin Elizabeth maak steeds seisoenaal tradisionele vinnige Atlantiese kruisings en ontvang ander tye as cruiseschepen. Koningin Mary 2, wat in 2004 van stapel gestuur is, loop vanaf Southampton aan New York Stad, voorheen 'n goed verslaan pad vir verskeie mededingende trans-Atlantiese passasierslyne. In daardie dae is passasiers fisies geskei deur die klas wat hulle bespreek het (soos aangedui in die film "Titanic"). Vandag word bykans alle openbare fasiliteite en gebiede deur alle passasiers gedeel.

Die prentjie van die reis van die cruiseschip word deur die TV-reeks geskilder Die Liefdesboot (uitgesaai 1977-87) is nie besonder nie misleidend (behalwe oor die onvermydelike geluk voor ontluistering en die all-Amerikaanse bemanning), maar dit is eerder onvolledig. As gevolg van skaalbesparing, is die meeste moderne cruiseschepe baie passasiers. Terwyl die luukse segment van die cruise-industrie spog met klein skepe - selfs 'boetiek' of 'mega-seiljagte', vorm die meeste skepe drywende dorpe. Reise wissel van enkele dae tot volle wêreldomvaarte van drie maande of langer, terwyl tariewe wissel van enkele honderd dollar tot US $ 100 000 of meer.

Luukse cruise lyne kan skepe hê wat slegs 100–800 passasiers vervoer. Groter skepe vervoer 2 000–3 500 passasiers, terwyl megaskepe meer as 5 000 kan vervoer. Die grootste cruiseskip ter wêreld, Symphony of the Seas kan 6 700 passasiers vervoer (5 500 met dubbele besetting) en het 'n bruto tonnemaat van byna vyf keer die van Titanic! Elke grootte het sy meriete; byvoorbeeld:

  • Kleiner skepe kan kleiner hawens in baie gewilde, ruwe kuslyne of ongewone plekke besoek, bv. die Riviera, Galapagos, Fjords.
  • Groter skepe bied miskien nog 'n paar geriewe aan soos hieronder in "Aan boord" bespreek, maar hulle moet wel groot hawens (of anker / wal buite die land) gebruik, en vervoer- en toerinfrastrukture benodig om soveel mense te hanteer.
  • Megaskepe bied groot openbare ruimtes en wye aktiwiteite, maar is beperk tot groot hawens met nog groter toeriste-infrastruktuur.

Vaarlyne bied uiteenlopende roetes. Voorbeelde wissel van:

  • N paar dae op see of na 'n nabygeleë aankoopplek. Dit kan aangebied word as 'n inleiding tot die vaart, of net as 'n geleentheid om te partytjie hou.
  • Een of twee weke om hawens en besienswaardighede in 'n bepaalde streek te besoek, volgens die onderstaande "Soorte vaarte".
  • 'N Maand of meer om 'n streek van die wêreld te sien, of drie of meer maande om die wêreld rond te gaan; 'n lewenslange ervaring.

Elke cruise bestaan ​​uit een of meer vaar segmente, byvoorbeeld, 'n "rondtripper" van 1–2 weke kan een segment wees, terwyl twee of meer streke soms 2-3 segmente van 'n wêreldvaart kan besoek. Op dié manier kan cruise-lyne bekostigbare "stukke" lang vaarte verkoop wat andersins min kan oorweeg. Nie selde sal cruisers twee of drie rug-aan-rug / opeenvolgende segmente koop om 'n langer vaart te bou nie, bv. 7-10 dae van Florida na die Wes-Karibiese Eilande, terug, dan 7-10 dae vir die Ooste, of twee of twee meer wêreldstreke as hulle ver is.

Die prys van 'n ekonomievaart kan vergelyk word met die verblyf in 'n hotel met klein kamers, maar goeie fasiliteite, etes, ens. Standaardhutte kan $ 80-150 per dag per persoon kos, terwyl die tarief vir 'n luukse vaart of ekspedisievaart na poolstreke kos. kan $ 1000 per dag kos - ja, per persoon. As 'n mens net op ekonomie konsentreer, kan jy 'n ietwat ouer, minder goed versierde en toegeruste skip kry; jy mag moet betaal vir maaltye (skaars); of u kajuit kan geraas hê van die enjins van die skip of van ander bronne. As u 'n bietjie meer betaal vir in wese dieselfde vaart, maar op 'n hoër kwaliteit of nuwer skip, sal u moet kry beter geriewe, gemak, ens.

Die keuse van 'n vaart - vroeë vrae

Hierdie algemene artikel, veral vir eerstejaarsvaartvaarte, moet u help om te verstaan ​​waaroor dit gaan en wat pas by wat u wil hê. Voor dit kan u uself die belangrikste vrae afvra:

  • Wie sal in u groep wees, byvoorbeeld net vriende, 'n paartjie, 'n gesin van ouers en kinders, 'n familie met veel generasies (insluitende grootouers)? En het enige lede spesiale behoeftes, byvoorbeeld om rond te kom?
  • Watter "kaliber" vaart interesseer jou? - ekonomie, hoofstroom, premium, luukse, ekspedisie?
  • Wat is u begroting? Nou in die sak en vir kontant benodig tydens / na die reis, bv. Betalings wat u ten minste as deposito sal doen en (waarskynlik) om reisversekering te koop kort nadat u die reis bespreek het, aangesien u die res van die reis betaal kos 'n paar maande voor vertrek, soos nodig wanneer u vliegkaartjies na / van die vaarhawe koop, en om geld te dek vir wat nie-triviale koste tydens die reis kan wees?
    • Pas u begroting op 'n tipiese vaart met baie voordele ingesluit (hieronder bespreek)? Of miskien 'n "alles-insluitend" waar (teen aansienlik hoër koste) byna alles vooraf betaal word deur en vir almal, byvoorbeeld toere, spa-dienste, onbeperkte alkoholiese drankies?
  • Hoeveel tyd het almal in u groep om saam te reis en wanneer? En hoe goed pas die "wanneer" in waarheen u almal wil gaan, bv. Alaska in Januarie kan sekere komplikasies hê.
  • Hoeveel tyd wil u aan elke reisbestemming bestee? Elke cruise is geneig om te wissel in die hoeveelheid tyd wat hulle op hul bestemmings deurbring. Dit is veral belangrik vir cruise in die Karibiese Eilande en die Middellandse See wat selfs binne 'n paar dae op verskeie eilande en stede kan stop. Sommige vaarte sal 'n paar uur op elke bestemming deurbring, terwyl sommige vaarte 'n hele dag of meer deurbring. Kyk na die reisplan en vra jouself af of jy die meeste van jou tyd op die skip wil ontspan, of as jy verkies om elke bestemming te verken.

Met basiese antwoorde op die vrae en die gebruik van hierdie artikel, (hoop ons), kan u 'n prentjie skep van watter soort cruise die beste by u pas. Baie is verbaas dat die koste vir 'n vaart (met advies oor kostemyding hieronder aangedui) ongeveer dieselfde kan kos as 'n reis of 'n vlieg- / verblyfvakansie van dieselfde lengte, dienste en akkommodasie.

Maatskappye

Cruise-skepe in die hawe van Key West

"Groot Drie" cruise lyne

Die "Groot Drie" van die seevaartbedryf is (van die grootste tot die kleinste) Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean Cruises, en Noorse Cruise Line Holdings. Saam vervoer hulle 80 persent van alle reisigers.

Carnival Corporation is die grootste van die Groot Drie. Dit besit nege cruise lyne:

Royal Caribbean Cruises is die tweede grootste van die drie groot. Die maatskappy besit drie cruise lyne en besit die grootste deel van 'n vierde (Silversea).

Noorse Cruise Line Holdings is die kleinste van die drie groot. Dit besit drie cruise lyne:

Onafhanklike cruise lyne

Klein skeepvaartopsies

Vir minder tradisionele vaarte,

Sien ook: Oossee-veerbote, Hurtigruten

Tipes vaart

U ervaring sal aansienlik beïnvloed word deur die tipe cruise wat u kies. U sal besprekings sien oor ander kwessies rakende tydsberekening (hoog- / laagseisoen- en "skouer" -seisoene), en afstande en hoe u dit later kan deurkruis.

Op 'n hawe-intensief reisplan, behalwe vir 'n paar seedae:

  • U kan een aand eet, dan geniet u vermaak, dans, ens., Gaan slaap en word wakker aangeskakel by u volgende aanloophek.
  • Tydens 'n tipiese voltydse hawebesoek, kan u dikwels om 07:00 tot 08:00 aan wal begin en u ongeveer 30 minute voor die vertrek om 17:00 of so terug verwag word.
    • U kan ontbyt aan boord van u keuse eet en van die skip af wees op pad na 'n georganiseerde toer, toer of aktiwiteite wat self gereël word, of net 'n rondloop.
    • 'N Heeldag-toer kan middagete insluit; sien die toerbeskrywing. Met 'n oggendtoer van 'n halfdag kan u middagete na die skip terugbring, waarna u inkopies of middagete kan kies. Halfdaagtoere wat kort na middagete aan boord begin, stel u in staat om soggens rond te loop of te gaan inkopies doen.
    • Sien bespreking van toere in "Aan wal" hieronder

As u so 'n vaart verkies:

  • Soek reisroetes in streke met baie nabygeleë hawens, soos die Middellandse See, Baltiese, The Fjords, die Verenigde Koninkryk, Karibiese Eilande, Alaska, Australië, Suidelike Stille Oseaan en die Mexikaanse Riviera.
  • Kyk na vertrekhawe in die streek om die seedae te verminder: byvoorbeeld Karibiese reise wat begin in San Juan vir die Karibiese Eilande, Amsterdam of Kopenhagen vir die Oossee of die Fjords.
  • Daarenteen kan skepe van Miami, Fort Lauderdale of Tampa 1-2 dae neem om die Karibiese Eilande te bereik, en dieselfde om terug te keer. Maar daar is meer cruise- en skeepskeuses vir u, en u kan kies om na enige hawe te ry as u naby genoeg woon (sien "Kom in" hieronder).

As u verkies seedae, kan jy soek na:

  • Herposisionering van vaarte (dikwels oseane oorsteek) of kruisings op sigself. Eersgenoemde neem die skip na 'n nuwe streek vir baie segmente wat voordeel trek uit 'n naderende hoogseisoen, byvoorbeeld van Alaska tot 'winter' in die Karibiese Eilande. Laasgenoemde behels 'n segment van 'n groot vaart na 'n ander streek. Albei duur gewoonlik twee weke of langer, en behels dikwels eenmalige internasionale vlugte om vertrek- of eindpoorte te bereik. (Sien "Vlieg" onder "Kom in" hieronder.)
  • Besoeke aan verre eilande of streke, byvoorbeeld 'n reis na / rondom Hawaii vanaf Los Angeles.
  • Segmente van wêreldwye vaarte, wat meestal 'n groot streek oor 'n tydperk van 3-6 weke "kruis". Ook hulle sal gewoonlik eenmalige internasionale vlugte insluit.
  • Rondwêreldse vaarte, wat 90 dae of langer duur - word die beste oorweeg sodra u weet dat u gemaklik is baie dae op see.

As u 'n reis vind wat u aangespreek het, kyk na "Doen" hieronder en die beskrywing van die skip (aanlyn of in die brosjure) om aktiwiteite aan boord te waardeer.

Daar is ook verskillende vaarte vir spesiale belange, byvoorbeeld vir brugspelers (miskien met 'n paar meesters aan boord), beroemdheids-entertainers, lesings oor kultuur, politieke wetenskap of geskiedenis, of LGBT-leefstyle. Daar was selfs 'n cruise op Linux, "geek", big band, rock and roll en tuisteater, waarvan sommige jaarlikse geleenthede is. 'N Paar cruise-webwerwe sal u help om dit te vind. Hul reisroetes fokus dalk meer op aktiwiteite aan boord as bestemmings.

Vaartmodusse / temas

Seevaarte

Vaarte na Groenland is gewoonlik van die tipe "ekspedisie"
  • Klassieke vaarte bestaan ​​nog steeds, die vaarte waar jy aantrek vir aandete. Die eksklusiewe skepe word beskerm deur 'n gegoede kliënte en die skepe is meer seiljagte met groter hutte as moderne oseaanreuse. 'N Spesiale subkategorie is die groot seilskepe.
  • Besigtigingstogte is ontwerp om soveel moontlik besienswaardighede in te sluit, insluitend die Middellandse See en hawestede in Noord- en Wes-Europa. 'N Subklas wat meer aan ekspedisies herinner, is vaarte rondom Kaap Horn, na die Antarktika of na die Milford Sound. Op sulke vaarte reis u gewoonlik aan boord van spesiale geboude skepe.
  • Klubvaarte is deesdae gewild. Dit sluit byna altyd landuitstappies, welstand, fiksheid en sonbaai aan boord in. Die atmosfeer en kleredrag aan boord is gemaklik. Hierdie vaarte is algemeen regoor die wêreld.
  • Prettige vaarte is daarop ingestel om die gaste te vermaak en bevat 'n professionele vermaaklikheidsprogram, disko's en fliekteaters. Hierdie "Las Vegas-weergawe" van die klubvaart word hoofsaaklik aangebied deur Amerikaanse vaarte in die Karibiese Eilande.
  • Mini-vaarte van een of 'n paar dae gewoonlik aan boord van groot veerbote geneem word, is dit algemeen in die Oossee.
  • Tema-vaarte - Soos die naam aandui, is dit gesentreer op 'n tema soos musiek, sport, welstand of lekker eet. Daar is gereeld bekende mense aan boord, soos Olimpiese medaljewenners, ster-sjefs, sangers of orkeste. Hierdie vaarte kan redelik duur wees en dit is gewoonlik net die moeite werd om te oorweeg as u baie belangstel in die tema.
  • Ekspedisies beteken 'n beperkte aantal gaste en hoë pryse aan boord van skepe wat klein genoeg is om plekke te bereik waar normale cruiseschepe nie kan gaan nie. Gewild is bestemmings soos die Amasone of die Pole. Die ysbrekers wat nodig is om na die poolgedeeltes van die wêreld te kom, bied veral 'n paar dosyn hutte aan. Sulke vaarte is gerig op mense wat die bestemmings wil ervaar en meer wil leer en word dikwels gelei deur akademici en ander kundiges wat aan boord lesings hou.
  • Rondom die wêreldkruise vir luukse vaarte neem dit minstens drie maande en die pryse begin vanaf USD 15,000. Dit is in die reeks reekse van korter vaarte, wat elk een of twee weke duur, wat afsonderlik bespreek kan word.
  • Vragvaart-vaarte klink eksoties, maar verbasend baie vragskepe u mag as betalende passasier reis. Vir lang afstande is dit goedkoper as gewone vaarte, en dit verskil beslis van ander vorme van reis. Daar is wel enkele nadele: daar is gewoonlik geen vermaak aan boord nie en die hutte is taamlik spartaans. Die hawens en skedules word volgens die vrag beplan, nie volgens die wense van die paar ekstra passasiers nie.
  • Maagdereise - Om op die heel eerste reis van die skeepswerf (of van 'n ander vertrekhawe) na die klant te reis, kan verbasend goedkoop wees as daar kaartjies beskikbaar is. Dit is die "toetsritte" van nuwe skepe en kan ware avonture wees. Tydens die eerste reis word daar nog steeds afwerking aan die binneland gedoen, en die bemanning is boonop dikwels onervare of ken mekaar nie goed nie. Daar is baie dinge wat tydens so 'n rit verkeerd kan loop - die ergste geval is dat die motor nie in die middel van die oseaan funksioneer nie, en dat reisroetes dikwels tydens die reis verander.

Riviervaarte

Riviervaartboot op 'n sytak van die Yangtze

Die karakter van hierdie vaarte hang af van die stede en streke langs die rivier. Dit kom algemeen voor in groot riviere soos die Donau (Europa), Wolga (Asië) of Nyl (Afrika). Baie pakketreise na Sjina sluit 'n meerdaagse vaart in langs die Yangtze-rivier insluitend deur die skeepsslotte van die Three Gorges Dam.

Hierdie skepe en bote is baie kleiner as seilbote en die vermaak aan boord is baie beperkter.

Cruise seisoene

Baie vaarstreke het seisoene "hoog", "laag" en "skouer". Dit volg gewoonlik met die meeste en minste wenslike tye om die streek te besoek, en tye tussenin, byvoorbeeld die winter vir die Fjords en die laat somer en die herfs vir die Karibiese Eilande (tropiese storms) word as ongewens beskou. Verwag dat u premiepryse gedurende die hoogseisoen moet betaal, aansienlik minder in 'laag', en miskien sal u 'n paar winskopies in 'skouer' vind, byvoorbeeld vir 'herposisionering'.

Onder herposisionering van vaarte, baie skepe vervoer onder verre streke met teenoorgestelde hoogseisoene, byvoorbeeld tussen die Middellandse See, die Baltiese eilande of Alaska en die Karibiese Eilande, Suid-Amerika, Australië, of Nieu-Seeland. Die lang afstande benodig baie seedae, dikwels teen aantreklike pryse per dag vir diegene wat op seedae hou. Aan die negatiewe kant sien jy dalk nie veel anders as die see tydens die vaart nie.

Hier is 'n paar van die gewildste vaarte in die wêreld:

  • Middellandse See - dikwels verdeel in 'n westelike en oostelike deel, kan vaarte in die laaste gedeelte hawens in die Swart See of die Rooi See insluit
  • Wes-Europa - sommige vaarte word uitgebrei tot by die Kanariese Eilande en die Azore
  • Noord-Europa - insluitend die Noordsee en die Oossee, as u op soek is na 'n korter vaart, kan dit 'n goeie gebied wees
  • Karibiese Eilande - moontlik die gewildste reisbestemming. Sommige reise duur tot by die Suid-Amerikaanse kus
  • Oseanië - gewoonlik in die waters van Australië en Nieu-Seeland, maar soms ook eilande in die Suidelike Stille Oseaan
  • Koue gebiede van die wêreld, soos Groenland, Svalbard en Antarktika word gewoonlik besoek deur spesiale skepe wat die vermoë het om deur ys te reis

Wees voorbereid op slegte weer of ys wat die reisroete verander. Gewoonlik het die vaartmaatskappy alternatiewe bestemmings beplan as dit onmoontlik is om die oorspronklike skedule te volg.

Demografie oor vaarte

Terwyl die cruise-industrie vroeër hoofsaaklik gesorg het vir seniors, het die ouderdom van passasiers aansienlik gediversifiseer. Die Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) het in 2018 berig dat die gemiddelde ouderdom van cruiseschippassasiers 46,7 jaar is, wat effens jonger is as die bevolking in Japan en Duitsland (47,3 jaar en 47,1 jaar onderskeidelik). Baie lyne spreek 20 tot 40-jarige paartjies aan, 'partytjie-vaarte' trek jong volwassenes aan, en Disney en ander fokus op gesinne met kinders en tieners. Vaarte het 'n geweldige gewilde gesinsvakansie geword as gevolg van goed ontwerpte kinderprogramme, selfs spesiale kajuitkonfigurasies.

Sommige reisroetes en kruislyne kan meer bejaardes lok, byvoorbeeld trans-Atlantiese en-Stille Oseaan-posisies, Holland-Amerika (dit ondersteun baie effektief, maar bemark nie net vir bejaardes nie). Redes sluit in koste, vaartyd, aantal dae op see en datums wat met die skool bots.

As cruise-demografie vir u belangrik is, lees die beskrywing van die cruise aandagtig deur, ondersoek webwerwe oor vaarte (sien "Ander bronne" hieronder) en werk deur u reis- / cruise-agent om die waarskynlike demografie van enige reis wat u oorweeg te leer. U sal bly wees dat u dit gedoen het, of u waag die gevaar om 'n skip aan te pak met jong, jong volwassenes of bejaardes met beperkte aktiwiteite.

As gestremd of swanger is

As iemand in u party 'n fisiese beperkingkan die cruise line gewoonlik help - veral as dit vooraf in kennis gestel word. Sonder om persoonlike privaatheid prys te gee, gebruik u agent (of direk as daar geen agent is nie) om hulle in kennis te stel van u behoeftes en wanneer dit van toepassing is, bv.

  • As u toegang tot spesiale hutgeriewe benodig, kan u 'n hut kry wat spesiaal toegerus is vir u algemene behoeftes, byvoorbeeld ADA-gekwalifiseerd. Dit kan deurdrempels insluit met min of geen styging, handige leunings om die kajuit en badkamer te hanteer, en spesiale badtoerusting.
  • Help met die belangrike loopafstand om aan- en af ​​te stap (proses hieronder bespreek), of om op 'n hawebesoek te gaan. In sommige hawens is die skip in die buiteland geanker en deelnemers aan die strand word met klein bote aan land vervoer wat uitdagings kan bied as u nie die bemanning se hulp vooraf bepaal het nie.
  • As u 'n pakket vir vlieg / vaart of 'n uitbreiding van die vaart koop (hieronder ook bespreek), moet u enige ander hulp noem wat u benodig.
  • Sommige ondernemings kan ook vereis dat u 'n assistent saambring om u te help in noodsituasies.

'N Vaart kan u 'n entjie van die regte plek af plaas voorgeboortesorg en geboortegeriewe, veral gevorderde mediese sorg, aangesien siektetoere nie toegerus of beman is om kraam of premature babas te hanteer nie. Raadpleeg u dokter as u enige komplikasies het of as u goed in die derde trimester verkeer tydens 'n vaart. Stel dan die cruise line in kennis via u agent as dit gebruik word. 'N Nota van geskiktheid om van hom / haar af te reis, kan die vrees van die lyn en die personeel verlig terwyl u besig is met die verwerking van die inskep.

Baie cruise-lyne laat u nie toe om te vaar sodra u 'n sekere punt in u swangerskap bereik het nie - dikwels 24 weke. As u dit nie nagaan nie, kan dit beteken dat u nie aan boord gaan as u te ver is nie. Geboorte op see het ook interessante, maar nie onoplosbare burgerskapkomplikasies nie.

Besoek 'n vaart

Queen Mary 2 in Wellington, Nieu-Seeland

U kan 'n vaart deur verskillende soorte aanbieders bespreek, byvoorbeeld direk met 'n vaarlyn (per telefoon of aanlyn), via 'n aanlyn reiswebwerf (wat ook vlugte, hotelle, toere, selfs 'n bondel) kan aanbied, et al.), via 'n webwerf wat slegs vaarte verkoop, en deur reisagente of reisagente wat hul persoonlike advies en dienste aanbied. Die meeste agente vra min vir hul dienste, tensy u spesiale versoeke / behoeftes het. Behalwe aanlyn bronne, kan u bure vra wat reis, of na 'n agentskap soek. Wees selektief en u sal dikwels iemand vind wat kan help - goeie advies en reisreëlings kan baie nuttig of selfs baie belangrik wees vir komplekse reise.

  • Maak alle deposito's en finale betalings per kredietkaart. U sal die beste moontlike beskerming geniet deur die bank wat uitreik indien iets verkeerd loop. Debietkaarte bied selde dit.
  • As u aanlyn is, moet u seker maak dat u na 'n gesiene aanlynverkoper kyk, d.w.s. Cruise spesialiste is gesertifiseer deur die Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) en sal 'n seël toon wat deur die CLIA gemagtig is. Baie van hul personeel is opgeleide agente; sommige spesialiseer in sekere vaarlyne, met gedetailleerde insigte in wat enige skip of vaart bied.
  • As u 'n herhalende klant word, kan verkopers u 'n agent gee wat u voorkeure kan leer ken, en (met veelvuldige reise deur die jare heen) advies en dienste kan gee, kan help met probleme wat u ondervind, of selfs kennisgewings oor ongepubliseerde aanbiedings, inligting wat net aanlyn beskikbaar is.

Nadat u een of meer vaarte gevind het wat by u pas, wil u die volle koste en voorwaardes, insluitend hawegeld en belasting, opsies om maklik en betyds van en na die hawe te kom, waarna die vaarkontrak vra, en ander besonderhede word selde in die brosjure of webwerf se pryse of bladsye weerspieël. Die getoonde pryse is per persoon vir 'n dubbele slaapplek in 'n hut wat gewoonlik vir twee volwassenes ontwerp is. As u 'n groep van 3-4 het (byvoorbeeld familie), kan die koste per persoon vir die derde en vierde in dieselfde kajuit (ontwerp vir 3-4) laer wees. Die pryse wat aangedui word, weerspieël hawegeld, maar nie belasting nie, want belasting verskil volgens u land (soms staat / provinsie) en ander faktore. Belasting word aangedui in die gefaktureerde prysopgawes vir u reiskoste; so nie, is die faktuur onvolledig, onakkuraat en moontlik nep.

U kan dalk die cruise waarna u ekonomies kyk, verleng as hutte is beskikbaar. Bespreek enige uitbreiding, verkieslik terselfdertyd as u die aanvanklike vaartsegment bespreek, ten minste voor die begin van die vaart. U kan 'n uitbreiding vra net voor of na die aanvang, maar dit sal u doen min hoop in die hoogseisoen wanneer vaarte redelik vol is, en feitlik geen hoop is om dieselfde kajuit te beset nie.

As u alleen wil vaar (bv. In 'n hut vir twee persone), sal u gereeld 'n eenmalige toeslag in die gesig staar, dikwels gelyk aan die koste van 'n tweede persoon. Verwag dat u 'dubbel' genoem sal word, want cruise lyne hou nie van enkelvaartgaste in hutte nie (selfs al betaal hulle die dubbele prys vir die hut); die skip kan nie ander inkomste van u verdien in die restaurante, kroeë en winkels aan boord, asook vir ander dienste nie. As u alleen vaar, moet u 'n ingeligte reis- / reisagent toelaat om u te help om dit en 'n kajuit te kies.

Om die kostebesonderhede beter te verstaan, hoe dit werk en die betekenis van basiese vaartkontrakte, moet u ten minste na verwante artikels op reis- / vaartwebwerwe soek en verteer voordat u besluit om te bespreek. Baie van hul bepalings is gebaseer op internasionale seereg en die wette van die land waar die skip geregistreer is, selde van die land van 'n reisiger. En hulle sal die cruise line bevoordeel - nog 'n rede waarom kwaliteit reisversekering belangrik word.

Tensy u baie ervaring het met die keuse en bespreking van 'n vaart, kan u dit oorweeg om 'n agent te gebruik. Hy / sy moet u aansienlik help om die kontrak, alle vaste koste, alle beskikbare opsies, die koste en invoer daarvan te verstaan. Voordat u 'n vaart of pakket koop, moet hy / sy 'n volledige faktuur verskaf wat alle koste en die basiese vaartkontrak weerspieël, en sal u die nodige reëlings vir vaartuie (soos bv. "Aanvoerhawe" hieronder) verduidelik vir u deeglike ondersoek. Hiermee kan u besonderhede bevraagteken en veranderings aanvra.

As u steeds alleen wil bespreek (bv. Aanlyn of per telefoon met die cruise line), terwyl u die "kooppunt" nader, moet u 'n volledige prys (insluitend alle belastings en fooie) op grond van alle die parameters wat u gekies het, en die vaartkontrak. As u aanlyn koop, ondersoek (en druk) die faktuur en kontrak om dit te ondersoek. Sodra u met die voorwaardes saamstem, gebruik u dieselfde parameters om na die aanbod terug te keer en u bespreking te voltooi. ('N ondersoek "kan meer as 'n paar dae lei tot 'n paar veranderinge aan die koste, dus wees vinnig.) Nadat u 'n reis alleen bespreek het, word u heeltemal verantwoordelik vir die vele besonderhede rondom dit (baie later uiteengesit). U moet dit wyslik op u eie reël. Almal moet mekaar aanvul, byvoorbeeld per 'Vlieg na / van die hawe' hieronder bespreek.

Reisversekering

Vir 'n meer diepgaande bespreking, sien Reisversekering

As u reis ingewikkeld raak of as dit 'n aansienlike koste is, soos u dit beplan, of as u 'n eerste keer 'n kruiser is, moet u reisversekering oorweeg. Ander redes sluit in as u van plan is om op 'n avontuur- of hoërisiko-toere of aktiwiteite te gaan (bv. Glyvliegtuie), enige mediese toestand het wat kan opvlam en behandeling of ontruiming benodig, dit baie ver van die huis af sal wees. moontlikheid dat 'n verskaffer van noodsaaklike reisdienste bankrot kan gaan, of as u gedwing word om streng verbindings met die lugdiens te aanvaar.

Om in aanmerking te kom vir alle beskikbare dekking, moet u dit gewoonlik koop kort nadat u 'n reis bespreek het, spesifiek direk nadat u 'n deposito gemaak het as dit goed voor die reis is, anders betaal u alles tegelyk. Die koste daarvan word basies bepaal deur u totale reiskoste (behalwe koste en verpligtinge wat kosteloos of met gedeeltelike of volle terugbetaling gekanselleer kan word), die ouderdom van reisigers wat gedek moet word, vlakke van dekking en opsies vir dekking wat vir sekere aangevra word. probleme, byvoorbeeld behandeling vir siekte of besering (aan en van die skip af), of mediese ontruiming. Goeie versekering sal mediese toestande dek as dit onmiddellik na die bespreking gekoop word, en dikwels nie later as dit gekoop word nie.

U kan beter versekeringstariewe en / of dekking verkry deur dekking te koop deur of van 'n vereniging waaraan u behoort, bv. AAA, AA, AARP.

Reiskenners beveel die "versekering" van lugdienste of kruislyne aan.

  • Die dekking wat aangebied word, fokus dikwels net of hoofsaaklik op die verantwoordelikhede van die lyn, terwyl 'n kwaliteitsbeleid alle elemente en risiko's van u end-tot-einde-reis dek, met opsies vir baie risiko's wat uniek op u van toepassing is.
  • Cruise beskerming (teen betaling) dek geselekteerde cruise risiko's, en is nie eintlik versekering nie. Geen wet of regeringsagentskap het jurisdiksie oor hul bepalings nie, en spesifieke versekering rakende beskermingsbeloftes kan ontbreek. Die fooi vir beloofde beskerming kan 'n groot deel van die gewone, goed gekoopte, algehele reisversekering beloop.

Ander hulpbronne

Verskeie webwerwe bied objektiewe inligting oor verskillende vaarlyne, skepe, vaarstreke en hawens, en hoe om te kies, voor te berei en op 'n vaart te gaan. Many offer professional reviews, some offer passenger reviews. But because they often sell cruises through third parties, they cannot be listed here. To find them, use a good search engine, with "cruise" and "advice" or "review" as keywords among your search parameters.

Those sites and travel magazines discuss other valuable topics, e.g., "wave season" (when to book, not when to go) versus other times, understanding what's included (and not) in prices shown, industry trends that may cause prices to go down. A good travel/cruise agent will have those and other insights. Knowing exactly when and how to best book a cruise receives nearly constant attention in travel articles, and approaches being an art.

Cabins

Cabin on the Wilderness Discoverer

Your accommodations can range widely: they are usually determined by cost. Most cruise lines promote their ships as luxurious, and cabin (aka stateroom) furnishings can range from quite "nice" to "utterly elegant". The less expensive tend to be quite a bit smaller than ordinary hotel rooms—space you may only use for a few hours each day to sleep anyway. But every square inch is usable, e.g., luggage fits under the bed to allow you to unpack many/all items and hang them in closets or store on shelves/in drawers for easy access.

Cabin grades and categories

On large ships, you'll find a number of cabin grades or categories within each cabin type. They involve location, size, quality of view, features, etc. Good travel/cruise agents have access to the nuances of features and shortfalls for each. Cabin costs will vary not only by type but by those gradations/categories. For any cabin type, costs reflected in brochures and on web sites usually apply to the lowest grade. One useful site (among many) for information on ship layouts and features is CruiseDeckPlans.

Cabin types

The basic types include:

  • Inside cabins are the least expensive and located in the interior of the ship, hence the name. They lack any window, and ship's air is "piped-in". On some new ships, they may have live video displays "fed" by exterior cameras.
  • Ocean view have windows that don't open (the ship's air is "piped-in") and are slightly more expensive. The least expensive may have partially or substantially obstructed views.
  • Balcony/veranda at even higher prices, with outside chairs, perhaps a table, to watch sunsets, have a room-service meal or treat, and watch passing ships and land. On older ships, the least expensive may have partially or substantially obstructed views.
  • Mini-suites en full suites (the latter often multi-room) with private verandas, shower/bathtubs, sitting areas, perhaps hot tubs and other amenities, and at the highest prices.

Perhaps oddly, suites and the least expensive cabins tend to sell out first.

Cabins designed for the disabled will have many handrails, flat thresholds and wider doors to aid accessibility and safety. Some cruise lines cater to such clientele by offering greater numbers of prepared cabins. Many may have an ADA (American Disabilities Act) certification.

A few other cabins and all hallways have handrails for safety during occasional rough weather. On ships built in the late 1990s or later, few passengers will be:

  • Bothered by pitching and rolling of the ship; they're built with highly-effective stabilizers.
  • Disturbed by the ship's engines or screws (propellers); they're very quiet.
  • Disturbed by public announcements; these are heard in hallways and public areas. For key announcements, they are piped into cabins; all can be heard in cabin on a designated TV channel.

Kenmerke

  • Virtually all cabins have twin beds, usually joined to create a generous queen, with side tables/drawers or shelves. If you prefer them separated, let the cruise line know. Suites may have king-sized beds. (See also "Sleep" below.)
    • Cabins configured for families may also have a pull-down or wall-mounted bunk-bed, sleeper sofa or settee, or another twin/queen bed.
  • All come with a small safe. While on board, you should lock all valuables in it (e.g., fine jewelry, passports, charge cards, cash), and leave them there unless needed, e.g., for a port visit, shopping ashore or dressing for dinner.
  • Expect to find a large wall-mounted mirror or two. Handy for checking your appearance, they also make the cabin seem bigger.
  • Small private bathrooms with showers are the minimum, with better cabins offering more space, shower/baths or larger showers. Each type will offer at least minimal toiletries typical for a motel (if you need specific ones, bring them or buy them near the port), small cabinets and shelves for all toiletries, at least one counter and lavatory, a toilet that operates by power suction, and a portable or installed hairdryer. Operate the toilet exactly as instructed.
  • All will have a foon with wake-up call capability (synchronized to the ship's time).
  • Virtually all will have a TV, some even an attached DVD player.
  • All will have at least a reach-in closet with a hanging rod, some hangars and a shelf often holding your life-vests. You'll also find storage drawers or shelves elsewhere. Suites may have walk-ins, with numerous shelves.
  • Better cabins resemble hotel rooms and may have a settee, desk with chair or more.
  • Better ships/cabins often offer a small refrigerator, holding chilled cans and bottles for sale. If you bring your own drinks, ask the cabin steward to empty it of items for sale, which can be very pricey. Then put your own it it.
  • Power outlets and wattage are minimized—this is essential to avoid fire risk.
    • The bathroom should have a low-wattage, usually 120 V 60 Hz outlet, adequate for such as a shaver, and a 220 V outlet for the ship's hair-dryer if it's not built-in.
      • If the dryer is not installed in the bathroom, a 220 V outlet may be near the bed or desk, likely with a portable hair-dryer stored nearby.
    • Near the bed or desk, you may find one or two low-wattage, usually 120 V 60 Hz outlets, adequate only for such as a laptop or to charge electronics.
    • Net result: Don't bring your own iron, or use your own hairdryer or anything that heats food or liquid. If found during embarkation, they may be seized. If used, they may trip a circuit breaker serving other uses and cabins.
  • Knowing these features and limits, experienced cruisers variously bring:
    • A short, well-made 120 V extension cord to use low-wattage items at convenient locations.
    • One or two nite-lites in case needed.
    • A small, plug-in surge arrester, to prevent electrical damage to personal electronics.
    • For warm climes, a small fan. Cabin air conditioners effectively but slowly change cabin temperature, but airflow is often modest. A fan can help cabin comfort substantially.
    • A power converter and adapter plugs if your electronics aren't compatible with available cabin power, or if you'll travel before or after your cruise where power is incompatible.
    • Some form of air deodorizer; balcony fresh air (if you have one) quickly helps but can also quickly compromise cabin air temperature and humidity.

Cabin location

Location can affect price somewhat because parts of a ship are more desirable for some passengers, e.g.,

  • To avoid the effects of ship's rolling or pitching, some opt for a cabin on a lower deck or closer to amidships.
  • To sunbathe on their balcony, many choose a deck well below any over-hanging upper deck.
  • Those who need quiet to sleep should choose locations away from lobbies and elevators, and with at least one deck between their cabin and any place with late-night revelers, e.g., nightclubs, showrooms.
  • Those with mobility challenges may prefer to be near elevators.

Other

Cabin water is fully potable, usually obtained by reverse-osmosis, so efficient that some large ships visiting ports with water shortages may offload potable water. (It does not substantially soften the water.) Older ships may use distillation supplemented by fresh water on-loads. All ships carefully treat the water to ensure its safety. Taste in cabins may be somewhat bland or have a hint of chemicals. Elsewhere, water often receives additional filtration to assure excellent taste for use in bars, dining rooms, kitchens, and buffet self-serve drink dispensers.

As you get interested in any cruise, ship or cabin type, go to the cruise line's web site and others for more details. Again, a good travel/cruise agent can help you find the features you need or want.

Key ships officers

Bridge on the Norwegian Jade

The ship and your cruise depend on them. Just a few of them include:

  • Die Captain: He or she is called the ship's master for a reason, with total operational command and responsibility of the vessel and when and where it goes. Depending on the ship's nation of registry, some may be able to officiate at weddings, as can accredited, "resident", or pre-certified clergy.
  • Die Hotel Manager: In charge of all staff that deliver on-board services, e.g., Purser/Customer Services, food and bar service, cabin staff, tour office, shops and nearly countless behind-the-scenes support staff.
  • Die Cruise Director: Responsible for all entertainment, special activities, key briefings and announcements, and any port or shopping advisers.
  • Die Maitre d' for your dining room, the headwaiter, and (perhaps) most-especially your waiter for the area where your table is located if you have opted for traditional evening dining (see "Eat" below). They stand ready to make special arrangements for you on-request such as birthday or anniversary celebrations, table changes, and special or required dining needs, e.g., food allergies, special diets.

Gaan in

The best-known destinations for cruise ships are tropical ports in the Karibiese Eilande of die Mexican Riviera, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, but cruises can be found almost anywhere there's enough water to float a ship and cities or sites to visit. Cruise ships of various sizes visit the coasts of Alaska, the Nordiese lande, South-East Asia, East Asia, southern Europe, Australia en Nieu-Seeland, Oceania en Nieu-Engeland; and various islands of the Pacific Ocean. Even the Noordpool en Antarctica are now destinations, though the latter has emerging ecological questions.

In addition, specially designed river boats en barges ply navigable rivers and lakes of Europa, Sjina, Brasilië, Egypt, North America and numerous other places. However, as noted above, this article focuses on ocean cruising and ships.

What to pack

For more discussion, see Packing for a cruise and Recommended dinner dress under "Eat" below.

This can vary substantially according to the region you'll cruise, e.g., clothing for cool/cold areas versus warm, conservative colors for Europe, items to cover arms and legs as you enter many religious buildings worldwide.

If you'll fly to/from a cruise port, see Vlieg for other advice and suggestions. Many experienced cruisers find certain items necessities, e.g.,:

  • Polarized sunglasses with strong light filtration, including full UV protection.
  • Sanitizing wipes or solution. If you purchase any, look for active sanitizing ingredients beyond just alcohol. Most intended for hands have a glycerin base to prevent drying skin. Avoid using them on hard surfaces as they leave an undesirable residue.
  • Skin protection. Essential for all cruises, the sun not only strikes you from above, but is reflected off the water on boat excursions and at beaches. See the article on Sonbrand en sonbeskerming. Pack and use protection, e.g., adequate clothing, brimmed hats, "fresh" sunblock with high UV A/B protection ratings (yes, it has a finite shelf-life). Ship's stores have some such items but charge dearly for them. You'll also find them ashore, but usually at a premium over offerings at home.
  • Binoculars. Most passing views from ship are at a considerable distance.
  • Duct tape. Useful to make temporary repairs to luggage and other items.

Essential papers

Cruise ship leaving Miami

Any authority looking at airline tickets, boarding passes and passports will examine names carefully. TSA and other security authorities often require that key papers (e.g., airline tickets, passports, visas, ship boarding passes) precisely reflect your full name. This applies to all persons in your travel group, e.g., spouse, children (toddlers perhaps excepted). It starts by making sure that whoever books your cruise (and any associated airline tickets) accurately enters each full name on reservations and later-generated tickets.

Passports en visas

Unless your ship's itinerary is confined to your home country (not often), you must prepare for a cruise as you would for any other international trip, to include passports, perhaps visas. Many countries to be visited may levy few or no visa requirements on day-visitors via cruise ship. But, check with the cruise line (through your agent if used) well ahead of time. Some lines will arrange needed visas for scheduled port visits, but also check specifically for visa requirements if you have an international flight itinerary.

  • The cruise-line will often insist that your passport have more than six months before it expires as of the date your international travel ends. They are echoing requirements of countries the ship will visit and/or where you'll fly, e.g., many that require visas will not issue them for passports with less time.
  • Lacking a passport, or any required visa, you risk being denied boarding on your departing flight or ship at embarkation without refund or other compensation. Your resulting expenses may also not be covered by travel insurance (you have a duty to fully prepare for your entire trip).
  • If your passport is stolen during a visit ashore during an international cruise, you will be left stranded; the cruise line will not let you return to the ship.

Very occasionally, port officials in certain countries will require review of all passenger passports before clearing the ship for passengers to go ashore. If so, they may join the ship a few days in-advance, and the ship will announce a day or so before the port visit that the staff must gather all passports for inspection or passengers will be processed in-person.

Before you leave home, make machine or photo color copies of at least the primary, facing pages of each passport per details in the above linked article. Use the passports when instructed by authorities, e.g., going through airport, airline or customs and immigration processing, or processing for initial ship's embarkation. Take the originals with you ashore on the rare occasion needed per ship's daily news or announcements. Otherwise, once on board, leave them in your cabin's safe and take the copies ashore (with government-issued photo identification) instead.

On your request, the United States can issue special passport cards for possible use at land borders and on cruise ships. However, in the event something comes up and you need to fly home from an international port of call, they are not accepted for international air travel.

Boarding passes and tickets

Once booked and paid, you must promptly go to your cruise line's web site to register. Immigration authorities require that any ship leaving their jurisdiction have personal data of all passengers well in-advance of cruise embarkation. And your agent or the line may need to mail documents to you reflecting that registration data. On the cruise line's web site, using your booking number, complete all details about all people in your travel group for whom you are responsible. If to informally travel with others, ensure they understand this. Data needed will include full names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers (or the equivalent for other countries), passport details, emergency contact names and phone numbers, how you want your shipboard account established/paid (an indicator, not a final commitment.) (see "Embarkation" and "Buy" below).

Once registered, within 60 days or so of cruise start, the line's web site will often allow you to print your boarding passes (see "Embarkation"). Others may mail them (and other information) to you as noted above. You may get one set of papers listing all persons in your group, or a set for each person. Web site or mail, you should also have the cruise contract and boarding instructions and times. If you've paid the line for flights or airport-to-port transfers, you should also find vouchers or flight tickets (or Internet links to them for printing at home). If you don't have these key papers in-hand in usable form at least three weeks before your cruise, notify your agent/cruise line immediately.

Per "Embarkation", each person will need his/her boarding pass and passport to be processed on board.

Cruise-line luggage tags

Tags showing your name, cruise ship, cruise date/identity/number and cabin number are essential to ensure your large luggage reaches your cabin.

  • Some lines will send you durable tags in-advance, to attach at least to your large luggage. If so, they'll often come with your boarding passes and vouchers if you have prepaid transfers.
  • Others will offer tags for you on-line. If so, print them (in color if possible). Yes, they'll be on printer paper. Then fold each as indicated into a narrow strip, and reinforce it with transparent package sealing tape. When you're ready to attach one, wrap it around a fixed luggage handle, information showing, and then staple multiple times or apply strong tape at the overlapping ends. The results can be surprisingly durable.
  • If you make your own flight arrangements, you'll have to get yourself and all bags to the port/cruise terminal. You can wait to attach the cruise-line tags as you claim them at the end of your flight, but do so before your bags reach the port if possible. If you have no tags, porters at the terminal can create them using your boarding pass data.
  • If you have arranged services through the cruise-line to transfer your checked luggage from the end of your flight to the ship, you need to attach the cruise tags as you check the luggage to begin flying. Before you leave the terminal at the port city's airport, get confirmation from any welcoming cruise-line staff about transfers and any responsibilities you have, e.g., if flying internationally, you may have to first claim your bags to go through customs and immigration processing before re-checking them into the cruise line luggage system at the airport.

Other essential papers

If travel is international, take no more prescription medications than you'll need on your trip—with convincing documentation that they belong to you and are necessary, e.g., properly labeled bottles with your name, perhaps a copy of the doctor's prescription. Leave the medications in and pack their prescribed bottles; otherwise, the meds lose their link to the prescriptions, and may be summarily confiscated as you enter or transit some countries.

  • If any contain a controlled or narcotic ingredient, make absolutely sure you will not violate any law of any country you'll enter — even as a deur cruise or flight passenger, e.g., as needed, have the country's written permission to carry the meds within its borders. Most countries with restrictions will have ways to apply in advance for permission. If so, apply well in-advance, especially if hard copy postings are involved, e.g., such can require 1-2 months, while e-mail perhaps 1-2 weeks, even if your initial efforts prove incomplete.
  • Some countries may have unexpected restrictions on entering/transiting with some basic medications, e.g., for Japan anything containing pseudoephedrine (‎Afrinol, Sudafed, Sinutab) or codeine (some cough and anti-diarrhea medicines). Always read the ingredients. Without prior permission to have them, they will be confiscated, and you may be arrested. You'll have to consult (and likely be examined by) a physician in the country to to obtain replacement/substitute medication if it's available.
  • Without action in-advance to comply with their laws, in a few countries for some medications the consequences can be severe, e.g., fine, arrest, possible prison.

Avoid paying duty on valuable items you take with you. You'll be exasperated as you return home if customs officials charge you duty for jewelry, a late model camera or electronics you took with you. Sien Proof of What You Already Own

If you have purchased travel insurance, take at least a summary of the policy coverage and how to contact the insurer for help from wherever you will go on the trip. And leave a copy of that with someone at home who can help with any actions needed or may benefit from its terms.

Flying to/from port

Hurtigruten takes you along Norway's coast

Cruise ships sail from an increasing number of port cities. Most people must fly to get to them. If that applies to you, you have options. They include arranging your own flights (discussed later), choosing a cruise line fly/cruise package, choosing a cruise extension, or making a flight deviation request to suit your needs/desires to/from the cruise.

For all those options, if you miss your ship's departure (actually from any port), you are responsible for joining it at its next port of call or getting home on your own. (That can be very expensive unless covered by travel insurance and you acted diligently to not miss the ship.) Some sources imply that ships will delay departure for flights their line has arranged that arrive late. More accurately, they may delay, but only if it doesn't compromise the ship's ability to reach the next port on-schedule. Accordingly:

  • Fly to a departure port under the simplest possible flight arrangements (e.g., to avoid missed connections/lost luggage), scheduled to arrive in plenty of time for you to reach the ship's terminal at least two hours before sailing. Otherwise, fly to reach the port area the day before, even if it means you must pay there for an overnight stay, meals and transfers. (For return flights, see also "Disembarkation" discussion below.)
  • If flying to a distant overseas departure port, plan to get to the port city/area at least a day before cruise departure, again despite the overnight costs and transfers. Such "day early" arrivals at distant ports are good industry practice and so should be offered by your cruise line in any fly/cruise package. Your insistence about decent flight routes and timing should not be treated by any agent or cruise line as a flight deviation request (discussed below). If you'll have a long flight, you'll appreciate the chance to rest after arrival anyway.

A fly/cruise package means the line makes all arrangements for you to fly to, go on and return from the cruise. This offers convenience and confidence for first-time cruisers or those going to/from unfamiliar ports. Those packages include air travel (economy, from/to select gateway airports), land transfers to/from ship, and may include lodging. Lines reserve seats well in-advance, anticipating demand by those liking the option (and for other uses). Those packages have trade-offs:

  • Hulle gewoonlik cost more than arranging your own flights and transfers; "usually" because some offers may be a good deal — an effort to help cruise line business. The line may want to develop new, expanded or unusual passenger or destination "markets", or it may be trying to fill empty cabins. Others may regularly offer "free airfare" or reduced air rates. Take care with "free". If you see anything in the trip description or the total invoiced/quoted cruise cost that in-effect refunds/rebates for air support not used, the offer really isn't free, but it still may be desirable.
  • The line's choices of flights/routes are often made semi-automatically, emphasizing cruise-line cost-avoidance (e.g., using airline seats they've already blocked), then your cruise departure time.
  • You have little control over their initial choices. Results occasionally have inconvenient flight times, use busy air hubs, have short connections, require considerable walking between gates/terminals, choose seats for group/family members apart from each other, and/or have quite long total times en route.
  • If you have special needs that would affect transfers or seating need/preference, let your agent or the line know, preferably before the line makes initial flight choices. This may give you/your agent some leverage in later negotiations over cruise line choices. And some high-end cruise lines may offer premium flight seating at relatively modest cost, which is perhaps crucial for tall or "mature" passengers.
  • The line will notify you of proposed flight details 45-60 days ahead of the cruise. Promptly examine them. If any detail appears problematic, promptly question its wisdom (through your agent if used), and decline to accept until corrected or explained to your full satisfaction.

Most lines also offer cruise extensions. You can opt to spend 2-3 (perhaps more) nights at/near a port area/city immediately before and/or after your cruise. Extensions can be somewhat to decidedly pricey, are integrated into your overall trip, with flight arrangements, quality lodging and transfers usually included. Meals may not be included; some may be. They may include one or more tours. The line should not demand any flight deviation fee (see below). Cruise brochures, your travel agent and the cruise-line's website will variously describe the extensions available. If travel involves flying overseas, and if you can, choose the number of days of the extension with intent to use at least some of the first day at the port destination to rest, with the remainder for exploring.

Flight deviation requests. A "deviation" is used to arrange flight dates for early arrival at the cruise port city/area, en route stay-overs, specific flight dates/times, aircraft cabin class, airlines or specific flight numbers that suit your preferences. The request must be based on what's actually possible, so your prior research is essential, or your request may be fruitless. For a fee (e.g., US$75–150 per person), the cruise line will process (not book) your request for special flight arrangements. This request should preferably be placed through any agent that booked your cruise. You should formulate and submit it long before cruise start, and ensure it's understood by any agent used.

If your agent already knows of your needs/preferences, he/she may be able to negotiate minor changes to flight choices by the line with no deviation request needed or fee involved. If that fails, you may need/want a deviation. The line usually begins work to satisfy your deviation request after it has chosen/proposed initial flight arrangements, e.g., in a fly/cruise package. This may be a short time after you make full payment for the package.

  • The later your request, the more difficult it will be to arrange, and likely more costly. (Cruise lines block seats in-advance, and they may be quickly spoken for. A late deviation request can force the line to quote you added costs to "cold purchase" necessary air tickets, at substantial extra cost to you even using their mass/wholesale contacts.)
  • Your request may be one of hundreds being processed for that cruise, so make it simple, e.g., clear objectives with few alternatives/options; each requires some research by whomever works to help you.
  • The more specific, "exotic" or luxurious your request (e.g., first- or business-class seating), the more expensive your deviation (beyond the deviation processing fee) will tend to be. After any negotiations, you'll receive (through your agent if any) the line's final offer of arrangements and cost and itinerary details. As above, examine each detail for feasibility and whether it meets your objectives.
    • If the cruise cost includes airfare, the line's web site or your invoice for the total cruise cost will usually include a sum reflecting a flight "refund". If negotiations for the flight deviation fail, you will (usually) have that sum to use as you look for flights on your own or with travel agent help if you wish.
    • If you've booked a cruise with prices that say "airfare included", and then you make a deviation request, watch out for unusually high air charges for minor changes to time, seating, route or airline. They may be an effort by the cruise line to recoup under-calculated air costs in the original price.
  • If your initial request might be difficult to fill, you should first ask about the line's policy on deviation charges. If negotiations fail, many cruise lines won't charge the deviation fee.

Booking your own: If you're a seasoned traveler or have a good travel agent, you/your agent may do better by booking your own flights and lodging. This can mean better economy, flight dates and times, routes, seating and hotels you prefer. However, if your cruise starts at one distant port and ends at a different one, look at both self/agent-arranged flights and cruise-line fly/cruise packages.

  • On your own, you may face buying one-way air tickets for all in your party. On many airlines, one-way domestic tickets can cost more than round trips on the same dates. For international flights, one-way tickets can cost more than twice as much as round-trips on the same dates.
  • You/your agent may also be able to find "open jaw" tickets for less than one-way full-fare prices.
  • As a last resort, you/your agent may know of budget web sites, flight packagers or brokers, or unscheduled airline charters. They may offer quality arrangements or "econo" bookings. The latter may require that all in your party be "flexible" about dates, routes, times en route, and on-board niceties. It occasionally involves need to claim luggage from one carrier while en route, take it to another carrier or terminal (even airport) and recheck it. Unless you are clearly "booked through" (as reflected on your detailed itinerary, later on boarding passes), the two or more airlines involved have no responsibility for making your arranged flight connections, for you of your luggage.

If you arrange anything on your own, keep any affected agent informed of your intent, efforts and results. Regardless of how you've gotten airline tickets, once you're booked, check frequent-flier miles you may have and if they apply. If you have enough, and "your airline" or "alliance" gets chosen to transport you, you may be able to use your "miles"/points for seating upgrades. Contact the airline directly.

Regardless of how arranged, ensure you have completely adequate scheduled connection times to make flight check-ins and flight connections (including possibly going through customs/immigration at some airports) en route to reach the start of your cruise, and for return flights. Include extra time for unpredictable delays. Consider everything that might make you late, e.g., flight schedules, "tricky" connections, seasonal weather anywhere on your route, distance/time between the cruise ports and airports, ground transport dependability/availability, how far in advance you need to check-in for flights. If you don't have fully-adequate time, choose other arrangements.

Such complexity, risk and cost point to the usefulness of a travel or cruise agent and the importance of quality trip insurance.

Home to/from port by land

In contrast to flying, you might drive to your port city if practical without great effort and if the costs are right. With an adequate vehicle, you can take and bring home much more than allowed by air, which is quite useful for serious shoppers with family souvenirs, etc. It may allow you to visit the port area one or more days before or after the cruise. If it looks tempting, examine and compare:

  • Using a hotel/motel park-stay-cruise package near the port. Some let you park for 7–14 days at no or small charge (but without assurance of vehicle security) and offer shuttles to/from the port. Certain web sites specialize in finding such offers.
  • Driving and parking at a commercial parking lot near or at the port. They nearly always offer shuttles to and from the port. They can be pricey for multi-week cruises, but do offer some security for your vehicle. Lots in/on the port are often much more expensive than off-port.
  • Renting a car or van one-way each way. If your group is 3 or more adults or a family, you'll need a sizable vehicle for all, to assure comfort and room for luggage. Renting lets you "up-size" as needed and avoid parking costs for long cruises. However, watch out for large drop-off fees, especially if the drive crosses state lines. Major rental brands should have an office for vehicle drop-off and pick-up near the port, often offering shuttles to/from.

If you can obtain quality, convenient bus or train service (as in Europe), you might obtain similar benefits, with simplicity and savings possible over a car. Examine the carrier's costs, reputation for punctuality, schedules, locations of terminals, transfers needed and any parking costs near home, and plan your departures accordingly.

Embarkation

Elevator on the Carnival Fantasy

This all starts as you reach your ship's terminal. The walking distance from ground transport to on-board ship can vary from 100–300 meters or more depending on terminal design and ship size. If anyone in your party has mobility challenges, request help in-advance.

If you'll board a large ship, examine the cruise line's instructions on when to arrive. Consider that:

  • A large group will eagerly reach the terminal as early as they can—perhaps forgetting that the same staff (ship's, terminal and customs) that processes them will first have to help nearly all on-board passengers disembark. If you are also that early, you'll likely spend considerable time idle in line waiting to be processed, with no guarantee of seating, refreshments or shelter from the weather.
  • Many other embarking passengers will precisely follow the cruise line advice and arrive at the designated time. That can create another line.
  • Once all staff are ready to embark passengers, only very frequent customers of that line, or those who've booked suites, will receive any preferential processing.

So if you have a choice, consider reaching the terminal 30 minutes or so after the time mentioned by the cruise line. In any event, reach the cruise terminal at least two hours before the ship is scheduled to sail. As above, if your agent or cruise line has arranged a flight that could cause you to reach the port later, seriously question its wisdom well in-advance. If you're traveling in a group (e.g., family), don't begin embarkation processing without all members present.

At the cruise terminal, give your large baggage (virtually no limit on numbers, but don't pack that much), with cruise tags attached, to porters for mandatory, separate security screening, then loading on the ship. They deserve a modest tip. As above, if you have no tags to attach, the porters will help you to fill-in blank tags using details on your boarding pass.

You won't see those large bags until they arrive at your cabin door. Delivery may take 2–3 hours, perhaps more. If you've paid the cruise line for airport-to-terminal transfers, and you have no intermediate customs processing at the airport, you may not see your checked luggage after initial airport check-in until it reaches the terminal, perhaps even at your cabin. But learn the full process and understand your responsibilities.

As you start in-processing at the ship's terminal, officials will examine your boarding passes and passports. Dan:

  • You and your hand-carried items will be scanned, much as at an airport — but without limits on numbers or non-alcoholic liquids. If you hope to bring beer, wine or liquor aboard (in checked or carried bags), understand and pack for the cruise line's policy about what you are allowed to bring aboard. Policy can range from no restrictions to confiscation of any "no no" found during embarkation.
  • You'll be instructed to fill-out and sign a simple current health statement, one for at least each person in your group. If anyone reports or exhibits symptoms of something that might be communicable, he/she may be interviewed. At worst, he/she may be denied boarding, at no liability to the cruise line. (Law requires ship's officers to minimize health risks to all the (perhaps) thousands of passengers and crew on board.) This event should be covered by good trip insurance.
  • You'll be shown to a processing counter to provide identification, set up a shipboard charge account and be issued a cabin key card for each person in your group. (See also "Ashore" and "Buy" below)
  • From there, you'll begin boarding. At the counter or on the way on-board, you'll each have an electronic identification photo taken, computer-linked to your cabin key/card. After that, you are free to board and walk about on-board. Later, as you disembark and re-board, you'll have to use your card, and the photos will electronically pop-up on a monitor used by ship's security staff.
    • On the way aboard, you'll often encounter a ship's commercial photographer. All pictures they take throughout the cruise have no cost unless you choose to buy one as you find it later in the ship's photo gallery. They tend to be rather pricey.

Once on board, a lounge or the buffet and casual food counters await, usually on upper decks. You'll often be instructed not to go to your cabin until their readiness is announced (your cabin steward is completely cleaning and sanitizing it, and changing all linens and towels in your cabin and many others). So, after food if any, it's a good time to walk about the ship to get oriented.

  • Top-side you'll probably see a swimming pool or more, other sports and exercise facilities, bars, perhaps the spa and a forward lounge.
  • Likely on lower, public decks, you'll find the Purser's Desk (aka Customer Service), often a concierge desk and shore tour ticket office, future cruise sales desk, perhaps shops (not open), and an Internet café somewhere.

Before sailing, there will be a safety at sea briefing that everyone must attend. Cruise lines and captains take this maritime law requirement seriously. You'll find instructions in your cabin, and papers and announcements will tell where and when to go. It includes learning the location of jou emergency "muster station", ways to get there, emergency signals and procedures, and how to wear your life vest. You may or may not need to take or don your life-vest—stored in your cabin. All ship's services will be closed during this time. If anyone in your group has mobility problems, this is a good time to tell the staff for your muster station so they can prearrange special help for emergencies. Truants will be called to a separate, later briefing at staff's convenience. Continuing truancy can result in being ordered to disembark at the next port.

If time permits after the briefing and before sailing, go top-side for departure. It's always interesting, often scenic (take your camera if light will be adequate), with a bon voyage party likely.

Kry rond

Nautical directions

Since you're on a ship, you'll want to learn at least a little bit of nautical lingo, especially for navigating the ship. The front of the ship is the bow and the back is the stern; all directions aboard the ship are relative to those two locations. If something is closer to the bow, it's fore of forward; if it's closer to the stern, it's aft. Starboard is to the right if you're facing the bow; hawe is to the left. And if something is in the middle of the ship (either fore-to-aft or starboard-to-port), it's amidships.

One of the long corridors on the Mariner of the Seas

The key advantage of a cruise ship is that it does most of the "getting around" for you. See "Understand" (above) and the following sections for details about ships and port visits. Basically, you unpack once, then visit the ports on your ship's itinerary and only repack at the end of the cruise. Careful consideration of the cruise itinerary and daily bulletins will eliminate confusion about where you are, what's happening, and where you'll go next.

As you explore the ship, you'll note that instead of numbers, decks may have fanciful names. You may find yourself referring frequently to the small pocket-map in your cabin and diagrams in elevators and stairwells to figure out where you are and whether the Lido Deck is above or below the Promenade Deck. The biggest ships can have 15 or more decks (counting bars and whatnot perched above the pools), making even the most conscientious stair-climbers resort to elevators from time to time. Thankfully, elevators will have an outside and inside list of facilities for each deck. But they often do not tell you if any is aft or forward, so again you'll need to look at the pocket-map.

Only rarely does a ship fail to visit a scheduled port. This most often stems from adverse weather, rarely by equipment failure or accident. If weather threatens, the captain will avoid the effects of the weather as much as possible, and will make announcements explaining what is happening and if alternate ports will be visited.

Sien

Cruising southeastern Alaska's Inside Passage

Some ships have been outfitted with millions of dollars worth of art and elaborate interior decor, but generally after a few days there isn't that much to see on most cruise ships. The real sights are ashore. Some ships travel to geographically interesting areas such as Alaska of Skandinawië where they make efforts to view shorelines up-close, e.g., Fjords and glaciers. Generally speaking, the smaller the ship, the better proximity to scenery you can expect, because they won't need to stick to deep and open water. On large ships, other scenery may be too far off to really enjoy its details, though binoculars help. Afhangend van die streek en seisoen, kan u walvisse, dolfyne of vlieënde visse in die omgewing sien swem of selfs langsaan volg.

As u nie hierdie voordele het nie, kan u die regte besienswaardighede kry as u die hawe nader en uithaal, en as u onder meer aan walbesoeke gaan.

Fotos neem

  • Kusse is selde reguit, maar as u foto's van die see neem, hou die horison horisontaal.
  • As u van plan is om foto's te neem van die oseaan of voorwerpe in die verte, leer dan watter situasies 'n UV- of sirkelvormige polarisasiefilter aanbeveel, en berei u daarop voor.
  • 'N Verkyker is noodsaaklik as u net na skepe en kuslyne kyk, gewoonlik op aansienlike afstande. As u van plan is om foto's daarvan te neem, moet u seker maak dat u 'n lens met die brandpuntlengte het om dit aansienlik te vergroot.

Doen

Terwyl u elke dag se aktiwiteite beplan, sal alles aan boord gebaseer wees op skeepstyd. Afhangend van die reisroete, sal die skip gewoonlik sy tyd verander om in te stem met enige tydsone wat dit binnegekom het. Dit verseker dat u van alle aktiwiteite en toere, aan boord en aan wal, met vertroue oor tyd kan benut. U kajuitfoon sal tot op daardie tydstip gesynchroniseerd wees, dus gebruik gerus die wekfunksie om te verseker dat u geen gebeurtenis mis nie.

Aanboord

Die swembadarea en swembadkroeg aan boord van MS Independence of the Seas

Groot skepe het die meeste of al die onderstaande funksies - megaskepe nog meer. Kleiner skepe (byvoorbeeld 600-1200 passasierskapasiteit) sal baie daarvan hê, maar in minder getalle of kleiner skaal.

U word omring deur water waarin u nie kan swem nie (dit gaan ongeveer 15-20 knope verby), maar die kleinste skepe behalwe die minste sal een hê "swembad" (miskien bedek, anders net vir warm klimaat) en dekstoele. Die swembaddens sal nie goed wees om rond te swem nie, maar sommige nuwe skepe word met klein swembaddens toegerus. Die meeste is gevul met verwerkte seewater. Ouers van babas en kleinkinders (of personeel op sommige skepe. Bv. Disney) moet toesien dat hul kleintjies geen veiligheids- of sanitêre probleem vir enigiemand skep nie.

Sonder die wettige beperkings wat op landgeriewe ingestel word, het die meeste cruiseskepe 'n casino (nie Disney nie). Verwag meer klem op spel op skepe wat vir Amerikaners voorsiening maak as vir Europeërs. Moenie tafelspeletjies of masjiene met 'n uitbetalingstarief verwag nie, selfs nie naastenby dié in beter casino's op die land nie; konsessiehouers betaal duur vir die ruimte. Dit sal slegs oop wees vir speletjies op see. As u wel 'n aansienlike hoeveelheid geld wen, vra dan dat u u verdienste in die vorm van 'n tjek aan u gee. Andersins, sal u dalk kontant moet dra en beskerm. (U kan die prys omskep in kredietkaarte aan die skip, maar op baie skepe word ongebruikte krediete nie aan die einde van die cruise terugbetaal nie: u sal dit verloor. Dit is verstandig om 'n baie groot aantal krediete teen die einde van die cruise te gebruik.)

Op groter skepe is Las Vegas en Broadway die modelle vir vermaak. Hulle het verskillende sang- en dansprogramme, sangers, komediante, towenaars, jongleurs en ander lewendige vermaak. Op groot skepe word hulle in 'n groot teater aangebied; op klein skepe sal hulle 'n sitkamer met verhoog gebruik. Vertonings volg gewoonlik op aandete, maar dit kan voorafgaan vir diegene wat kies vir "laat" aandete. Tydens en na vertonings bied ander lokale klein groepies, klavierstawe en dans op lewendige musiek of 'n platejoggie aan. Spesiale vaarte wat op sekere soorte musiek of kunstenaars / bands gefokus is, gebruik baie van dieselfde plekke.

Vir kultuur- of geografies-belangrike bestemmings of spesiale geleenthede sal skepe kundig wees dosente. Sommige skepe bied aan boord kapelane om godsdienstige vieringe te hou, alhoewel dit buite spitstye, byvoorbeeld Kersfees, Paasfees, minder algemeen word. Om dit ander tye te versterk, kan hulle passasiers (met die nodige toerusting) as vrywilligers verwelkom om dienste te lewer.

Teater in MS Eurodam

A rolprentteater word op die meeste skepe aangetref en speel films soortgelyk aan dié wat in lugdienste voorkom. Daar is gewoonlik 'n biblioteek aan boord vir u leesgenot, maar verwag nie die nuutste romans nie, tensy dit agtergelaat word tydens 'n vroeëre vaart. As hutte DVD-spelers het, kan die biblioteek 'n beskeie versameling titels hê. Dit kan ook elektronies of aan boord aangebied word speletjies Om uit te kyk. Heel algemeen vind u 'n Internet kafee (later bespreek) wat verskeie rekenaars met 'n netwerkdrukker aanbied. Buiten moet jy iemand vind wat toerusting uitreik vir basketbal, tafeltennis, skuifbord en ander gebruike.

Die skip bied dikwels ruimte en sitplekke om improvisasie of georganiseerde ondersteuning te bied brug, selfs toernooie. En personeel het baie dikwels trivia en ander wedstryde. En op die meeste seedae sien u ten minste een groot Bingo sessie aangebied.

Inkopies is maklik beskikbaar, met winkels aan boord. (Sien "Koop" hieronder.) Dit is belastingvry, maar verwag nie groot winskopies nie. Ook hulle sal slegs oop wees op see.

Troues op see is op sommige skepe moontlik, soos die Bermuda-geregistreerde Princess-lyn, maar benodig gevorderde versoeke en beplanning om uitvoerbaar te wees.

U ontvang 'n daaglikse nuusbrief met 'n skedule van aktiwiteite, gepas om te noem kunsveilings (na verneem word die "gevaarlikste plek op 'n skip"), bingo, kombuis toere, port- en inkopielesings, vaart verbeteringslesings (deur natuurkundiges, historici, politieke wetenskaplikes, et al), kuns en kunsvlyt lesse, kompetisies by die swembad, dansklasse, ens. Gesinsgerigte vaarte (veral Disney) sal baie hê ouderdoms-spesifieke aktiwiteite en personeel, toegerus vir kinders en tieners.

Die meeste skepe het 'n gimnasium of gesondheidsentrum met oefenmasjiene. Hulle bied dikwels onderrigprogramme in oefensessies of Tai Chi, ens., Teen 'n beskeie koste aan, wat moontlik vooraf bespreek moet word. Baie mense gebruik die 'promenade'-dek of 'n baan om te stap / draf. Eersgenoemde loop gewoonlik rond op die skip op 'n middedek en 'n nashoek, maar kan trappe hê wat u onderbreek. As dit so is, kan 'n baan aan die bokant beter wees as dit beskikbaar is (die sondek is gereeld beskikbaar vir joggies op 'n sekere tyd, gewoonlik soggens). Sommige skepe vind ruimte vir setperke, gholfsimulator, 'n basketbal- of tennisbaan (omring deur balvangende nette) bo. Sommige baie groot skepe het ysbane, rotsklimmure, 'surfparke' en ander aktiwiteite.

Spa-fasiliteite is 'n stapelvoedsel van cruiseschepe. Alles van masserings tot haarkappery tot eksotiese gesondheids- en skoonheidsbehandelings is teen aansienlike ekstra koste beskikbaar.

Sommige skepe in Europa het 'n dek vir naturiste wat sonbaai, dit is die boonste dek om te voorkom dat ander mense kyk. Aangesien die boonste dek gewoonlik die beste uitsig het, kom dit egter voor dat mense met hul kamera op hierdie dek opstaan. Dit is natuurlik verbode.

Aan wal

'N Reddingsboot van die "Pride of America" ​​wat as 'n tender in Hawaii gebruik word.

U moet u kajuit sleutelkaart elke keer as u vertrek en weer aan boord gaan. Dit is hoe hulle bepaal of u aan boord is en hoe die skeepsveiligheidspersoneel u herken. Andersins, kan hulle u agterlaat.

  • U sal gereeld opdrag kry om minstens 30 minute voor die vertrek terug te keer na die skip.
  • Naby vertrektyd, gebaseer op die opsporing van wie nie aan boord is nie, kan u aankondigings vir sekere passasiers hoor om die lessenaar van die wagter te kontak - hulle "ontbreek".

Doen vooraf navorsing oor elke plek wat u besoek. Dit kan u cruise-ervaring teen 'n lae of geen koste aansienlik verbeter. Baie hawens en besienswaardighede in die omgewing word gedek deur Wikivoyage-bestemmingsbladsye, reiswebwerwe (bv. WhatsInPort, en boeke.

Die skip lê gewoonlik by 'n pier aan. As daar nie een beskikbaar is nie, sal dit aan die wal anker of vasmeer, en die skeepsreddingsbote of kommersiële bote sag u na 'n gerieflike plek op die strand. U gedetailleerde reisplan sal aandui hoe u skip elke hawe sal besoek.

  • As u op 'n baie groot skip is, kan die tender baie tyd duur. Die skipbesoekers gaan gewoonlik eerste, dan 'vroeë voëls' wat tenderkaartjies / -nommers vir die eerste-eerste-eerste-verdien-prys verkry het. Tensy u 'n skeepsreis gekoop het, beplan u tyd daarvolgens.
  • As die weer in 'n hawe waar u skip anker / wal lê, 'n rowwe see oplewer, kan die tenders na die oewer onbruikbaar wees en sodoende gekanselleer word. As die skip u nie aan wal by 'n hawe kan kry nie, is die lyn mag bied terugbetaling vir die teleurstelling, maar sal terugbetaal die koste van die skip se toere wat gekoop maar gekanselleer is.
Die hawe van Saint John's op Antigua. As u die grootte van die cruiseskepe met duisende passasiers vergelyk met die grootte van die stad, is dit maklik om te verstaan ​​hoe belangrik cruisetoerisme vir sommige eilandlande is

Portbesoektye laat passasiers gewoonlik toe om 07:00 08:00 aan wal te gaan, met die vertrek van die skip dikwels om 17:00. Vroeë of latere vertrektye kan beïnvloed word deur getye, afstand na volgende hawe of spesiale toerbehoeftes aan wal; kan die afklim effens vertraag word deur die inklaring van die skip of passasiers in die hawe. By spesiale haltes kan sommige skepe later vertoef, miskien oornag of meerdere nagte.

Die stranduitstappiekantoor bied 'n verskeidenheid besigtigingstoere, kulturele besoeke en georganiseerde aktiwiteite aan (bv. duik, snorkel, kajak, fietsry) - aanbiedinge wat bepaal word deur die aard van elke hawe, sy klimaat, tyd van die jaar en tyd in die hawe.

  • By groot hawens word gereeld groot busse met lugversorging vir 30-50 mense deur toere gebruik. Gewilde hawens het ook 'n groot aantal taxi's, sedans of bestelwagens met lugversorging, met bestuurders / gidse te huur: motors wat 3-4 volwassenes kan vervoer, bussies vir 6 of meer.
  • Heeldag toere vul dikwels feitlik al u tyd in die hawe. Gewoonlik vind u ook toere van 'n halwe dag wat aangebied word, oggend en middag - dit is die moeite werd om te oorweeg as 'n rondloop of inkopies voor of na middagete ook 'n beroep het.
  • As u 'n selfversekerde reisiger is of die hawe al besoek het en spesiale plekke wil besoek, kan dit goed wees as u 'n motor saam met die bestuurder / gids huur om 'n toer na u keuse en ontwerp te neem. Dit kan net u gesin / groep of 2-4 medepassasiers of so betrek. Weereens kan gevorderde reëlings raadsaam wees.

Skiptoere kos gewoonlik meer as gelykstaande toere wat onafhanklik met plaaslike inwoners onderhandel word. U kan byvoorbeeld 'n taxi of bussie huur met 'n bestuurder / gids teen $ 40-50 per uur vir 4-6 mense. Daarteenoor kan 'n skeepsreis van 'n halfdag tussen $ 50 en 100 wissel per persoon, met heeldae $ 125-300. Maar teen daardie ekstra koste bied skeepsreise:

  • Dit is baie gemaklik om 'n toer te bespreek, alhoewel vooraf navorsing u eie reëlings kan help.
  • Vertroue oor die reisplan as u ver van die hawe af sal waag.
  • Versekering in veral "ondernemings" dat u nie deur 'n bestuurder of 'n "makelaar" aan die pier gekyk sal word nie.
  • Groter versekering dat die skip sal wag as u toer nie betyds terug is nie. Weereens sal dit so lank as moontlik wag vir skeepsreise, en mag wag vir diegene op hul eie, maar net as dit die volgende hawe op die skedule kan bereik sonder hoë bykomende (brandstof) koste.

Baie gewilde skeepsuitstappies mag vul baie dae voordat u vertrek (dit is aanlyn te koop). U kan verstandig wees om dit na te vors en u daartoe verbind om gevorderde, selfgerigte alternatiewe te maak, soos geregverdig, byvoorbeeld as:

  • U is van plan om met dolfyne of pypstroke te swem, of om 'n gletser te klim.
  • U fokus op 'n dagtoer op 'n spesiale plek 'n ent van die hawe af, bv. die Normandiese strande vanaf Le Havre.

Toeganklikheid van toere hang sterk af van die ligging / gewildheid van die toer. Daar is byvoorbeeld verskeie operateurs en tientalle busse wat reisigers neem Cancún aan Chichén Itzá. U sal dit nie sien op klein en minder besoeke Karibiese eilande nie. Met verskeie cruiseskepe in die hawe kan toere oral verkoop word.

By sommige hawens moet skepe onder kommersiële vragbedrywighede aanlê. Loop van / na die skip kan deur onvoorspelbare gevaarlike aktiwiteite plaasvind, selfs verbode deur die hawe-owerheid. Kyk na die nuusbrief van die skip vir hawestoestande en luister na aankondigings oor die cruise-direkteur of haweadviseur. By sulke dokke sal die meeste skepe 'n pendel van die skip na 'n terminale met taxi's / busse reël, selfs na 'n winkelgebied of middestad. As dit so is, soek ook besonderhede oor 'n retoervoer. As u nie 'n pendeldienst het nie, moet u vervoer vra wat die gevaar vermy en die Cruise Direkteur dalk vooraf vra oor veiligheidskwessies.

Soos hieronder uiteengesit, kan die UV-inhoud van die son op enige toer baie hoog wees, veral op of naby water op enige breedtegraad gedurende die somer. Beskerm jouself. Sien "Bly gesond" hieronder.

Koop

Geld

Stel uself in kennis oor moontlike ekstra uitgawes aan boord voorheen u reis - wat is by die prys ingesluit en wat nie? Probeer aanlyn navrae vir 'cruise' en 'advies'.

Kajuit sleutel. Vir sowel gemak as om 'n ontspanne atmosfeer, die meeste cruiseskepe het 'n "kontantlose" stelsel waarin u u kajuitsleutel (kaart) gebruik om alle onkostes aan boord te hef, soms behalwe vir dobbelary. Twee of meer kajuite / sleutels kan verwys na een kredietkaart of kontantrekening (kontantdeposito word vooraf gegee), byvoorbeeld vir paartjies en gesinne. Aan die einde van elke cruise-segment sal die skip u kredietkaart of kontantdeposito gebruik om die finale saldo van u rekening te vereffen.

  • U kan die huidige saldo van u rekening, met 'n lys van alle heffings, te eniger tyd, soms selfs op u kajuit-TV. U moet hierdie besonderhede hersien ten minste teen die einde van die vaart om u tyd te gee om enige heffing te bevraagteken.
  • As dit aan u kredietkaart gekoppel is, sal u rekeningsaldo outomaties daaraan gehef word; baie lyne vra u kredietkaart vir ander uitgawes (wat voor die vaart aangedui word, bv. fooi vir personeel) tydens die vaart. Aan die einde van die vaart word die balans outomaties vereffen - sodat u kajuit se sleutel tot die laaste aand kan gebruik.
  • U moet enige kontantrekening persoonlik vereffen. Dit kan lang rye by die Purser's Desk op die laaste volle dag van die vaart in gevaar stel, aangesien baie ander ook hul rekeninge betaal. Nadat u betaal is, kan u dalk nie meer heffings maak voordat u aan boord gaan nie.
  • By ontsmetting mag niemand wat nie hul rekening ten volle vereffen het nie, vertrek nie.

Beter toegeruste skepe kan een of meer aanbied OTM's. Dit is gewoonlik om dobbel geriefliker te maak. Gevolglik bied hulle gewoonlik slegs die geldeenheid aan wat deur die casino gebruik word. En hul fooie is geneig om taamlik hoog te wees in vergelyking met banke aan wal. As u 'vreemde' valuta benodig vir 'n stranduitstappie, kan die personeel van die 'Excursion' advies hê oor waar u dit aan wal kan kry. Geleentheid kan ook insluit die gebruik van die skipwagter om u geld te ruil vir klein hoeveelhede plaaslike.

Rekeningbalansbestuur

U sal opdrag kry om kontant of 'n krediet- / debietkaartrekening te pleeg om u saldo op u skip te betaal. Koste vir u rekening kan drankkoste, toere, uiteet in spesiale restaurante, koopware, spa-dienste, ens insluit. Om baie redes kan u rekening krediete ontvang, byvoorbeeld as betaalde toere gekanselleer moet word, of miskien vooraf toegestaan ​​moet word na gereelde vaarte. Sorg dat u alle toegekende krediete gebruik. Niemand sal terugbetaal word as kontant of as kredietrekening aan die einde van die vaart nie, met die moontlike uitsondering van kansellasies van die toer deur die skip se personeel.

Kantel

Wenke aan boord neem twee vorme aan: die toeslag vir spesiale drankies, spesiale restaurante en sekere dienste (hieronder bespreek), en (uiteindelik opsionele) wenke vir die personeel van die skip (nie beamptes nie) word gewoonlik gehef aan die einde van die vaart.

Lees die aanbevelings van die cruise-lyn vir kantel die skip se personeel. Hulle stel 'toepaslik' voor opsioneel bedrae - 'n belangrike deel van die personeelinkomste. Die aanbevole bedrae kan volgens u kajuitklas wissel.

  • Baie cruise lyne voeg hierdie bedrae outomaties by die passasiersrekeninge aan - dit kan US $ 12-15 per dag per passasier beloop. Hierdie metode verseker dat almal personeel wat bydra tot u ervaring (bv. kokke, skoonmaak- en instandhoudingswerkers), nie net u kelner en stuurhuis nie, ekstra inkomste ontvang en erkenning.
    • Geen outomatiese fooitjies gaan aan skipbeamptes nie.
  • U kan kies om hierdie outomatiese wip af te wys of aan te pas voor die einde van die vaart. Royal Caribbean en ander bied die opsie vooraf, maar maak die opsie of hoe om dit uit te oefen dalk nie voor die hand liggend nie.
  • As aanmoediging vir gereelde klante, kan sommige cruises en reis- / reisagentskappe hul fooi betaal.
  • Of dit nou outomaties of persoonlik is, enige bemanningslid wat u cruise-ervaring veral verbeter, verdien iets - miskien bo en behalwe outomatiese bedrae.
  • Baie ervare cruisers vind dat 'n gedeeltelike wenk aan sleutelbemanningslede (bv. Kajuit-rentmeester) tydens die begin van die vaart dikwels goeie resultate het.

Sommige vaarlyne of vaarte het 'n nie-wip-beleid ', wat dikwels op die Europese of ander markte gerig is, waar wipkulture kultureel vreemd is en klante kan afskrik as hulle gehef word. In werklikheid word gratifikasies ingebou in die hoër prys van daardie vaarte, waarop passasiers ook belasting betaal.

Inkopies aan boord

Grand Lobby op die Queen Mary 2

Kruisskepe maak gebruik van hul internasionale / op-see-status om aan te bied belastingvrye inkopies doen (byvoorbeeld vir drank, juweliersware (kostuum en kosbaar), skoonheidsmiddels, parfuum) teen ordentlike, indien nie uitstaande pryse nie. Groot skepe het gewoonlik boetieks wat kleredrag / aandenkings met logo's verkoop, wat miskien gemaklik en aanddrag aanbied ('n paar bevat selfs tux / formele huur). Ander winkels bied basiese diverse, snoepgoed en dwelms sonder voorskrif. Almal sal slegs oop wees op see.

  • U kan 'sypaadjieverkope' sien, spesiale aanbiedings op juweliersware en horlosies, en teen die einde is dit miskien 'n verkoopskleding op verouderde logo-klere en ander items.
  • Almal Gebottelde drank wat aan boord gekoop word, sal tot die laaste volle dag van u vaart gehou word, en dan na u kajuit gelewer word, waarskynlik in die boks, maar meer vulling in die boks benodig om gereed te wees vir vervoer of (met verdere voorbereiding) om ingecheck te word bagasie huis toe te vlieg.
  • Skip se handelsware het geen belasting of belasting vooraf betaal nie, aangesien dit aan boord gekoop / afgelewer word, en dus onderhewig kan wees aan die reg wat betaalbaar is wanneer u terugkeer huis toe as al u reisaankope oortref u vrystelling van belasting.
    • As u van plan is om 'n duur item (bv. Juweliersware, unieke items) te koop, kyk of dit "doeanevry" is, bv. In u tuisland gemaak is, reeds daarheen ingevoer is en dan na die skip gestuur is , of is eenmalig soos 'n unieke kunswerk. As dit so is, met 'n behoorlike sertifikaat van die skip se winkelbestuurder, hoef u die item miskien nie by u pligstoelaag te tel nie.
    • As Amerikaanse burgers hul pligstoelaag oorskry met aankope aan boord en met die skip terugkeer na die VS, moet die skip (volgens wet) die aankope aan die Amerikaanse doeanekantoor van die hawe gee. Hierdie passasiers kan 'n spesiale "douane-aandag verwag. 'N Paar skepe kan doeaneverwerking aan boord reël.

Voorbehoud leeg (laat die koper oppas) is oral raad en is van toepassing op die boord. Cruise-passasiers is 'n "gevangene mark".

  • Min items in boordwinkels sal goeie winskopies wees. Ook, cruiseskepe in internasionale waters volg die wette van hul vlagland en kopers kan behandel word anders as besighede op land; om verbruikersbeskerming aan te vra wat u gewoonlik tuis geniet mag misluk. Cruise-lyne het egter gewoonlik 'n oorkoepelende beleid wat kopers beskerm teen die berou van die koper, of onverskillige beskadiging van handelsware.
  • Personeel werk in die spa of gimnasium mag baie duur lotions / drankies, dienste, toetse of behandelings met beweer gesondheids- of ander voordele. Voordat u "ja" sê, moet u hul gesertifiseerde kwalifikasies leer en die werklikheid van wat hulle aanbied, begryp.
  • Daar was voorheen gevalle waar veilings aan boord (gewoonlik deur konsessiehouers wat matte / tapyte, skilderye, ens.) Aangebied het, ongeregverdigde aansprake van waarde van die saak gemaak het, namaaksels van beroemde werke aangebied het, of die bod beïnvloed het op maniere wat onwettig aan wal sou wees in die meeste lande. Gelukkig is baie van hierdie praktyke aansienlik verminder as gevolg van groot, suksesvolle regsgedinge. Basiese advies: Koop wat u wil met dissipline (om die koste in te sluit om die item tuis te kry), nie as 'n belegging nie.

Vir vaarte in Europa: Die Europese Unie (EU) het begin om sy BTW te hef op alle verkope en dienste aan boord (insluitend diensfooie) op enige vaarsegment wat in die EU vertrek en eindig sonder om 'n hawe buite die EU te besoek (of die EU-BTW-gebied). Aangesien die verkope aan boord aansienlik kan afneem, ontwerp die lyne baie cruisesegmente om "buite" hawens te besoek, byvoorbeeld Gibraltar, Casablanca.

Winkels aan wal

Inkopies bly 'n baie gewilde aktiwiteit, met byna alle hawens wat ten minste handwerk en aandenkings aanbied wat die bestemming weerspieël, maar dikwels nie daar nie. ('N Ruimreg vir "plaaslike" aandenkings: hoe verder u van die dokgedeelte uittrek, hoe laer kan die pryse vir gegewe soorte artikels wees.) Ander bied 'n wye verskeidenheid handelsware, waaronder kameras / lense, klere, elektronika , juweliersware en "fynproewers" -verbruiksgoedere. As daar 'n kans is dat u u krediet-, debiet- of OTM-kaart gebruik om dit te koop:

  • Laat die bank wat uitreik, vooraf weet waar en wanneer u op reis is - dit is in elk geval altyd 'n goeie praktyk.
  • Volg goeie praktyke om te verseker dat dit nie deur ander verlore gaan of misbruik word nie. Sien Geld vir 'n volledige bespreking.

Sekere bestemmings kan bied "ernstige inkopies": belastingvry en / of hoogs mededingend, bv. Sint Martinus en Sint Thomas in die Karibiese Eilande, (miskien behalwe vir "ontwerperswinkels") Hongkong en Singapoer as u suksesvol beding. Kyk byvoorbeeld na die bespreking van belastingvrye inkopies en doeaneverpligtinge Saint Thomas # Koop. As u geneig is om êrens wat u nie ken nie, ernstig te koop, moet u aanlyn navorsing u help om te verstaan ​​wat u kan verwag, byvoorbeeld winkels, belasting en waarvoor u moet let.

Die skip kan 'n adviseur vir hawewinkels wat nuttige inligting kan verskaf en sekere handelaars en handelsmerke / items kan aanbeveel (selfs). Hierdie adviseurs word dikwels in diens geneem deur handelsondernemings wat groot fooie (selfs kommissies) ontvang van handelaars en handelsmerke wat hulle aanbeveel. Dit kan nie die reputasie van enige handelaar of handelsmerk waarborg nie (of 'n aanspreeklikheid daarvoor gee nie), en dit moet ook nie die waardigheid van mededingers bevraagteken nie - alhoewel die 'adviseur' 'n spesiale waarborg kan noem vir vooraanstaande handelaars. Hulle fooie kan moontlik die finale pryse verhoog wat "aanbevole handelaars" vra. In gewilde winkelsentrums is die meeste handelaars redelik verantwoordelik.

Wees op ander plekke versigtig met handelaars, produkaansprake, waarborge, vaste, gemerkte en onderhandelbare pryse, en finale koste buite ooreengekome pryse, byvoorbeeld verborge reg of belasting. Alhoewel u vir belasting- / belastingterugbetalings in aanmerking kom, kan u dit dalk slegs op sekere plekke verkry as u die jurisdiksie verlaat, byvoorbeeld lughawens, en slegs vir elke aankoop wat 'n aansienlike bedrag oorskry. In die laaste hawe vir belastingregs mag die hawe geen "status" hê nie, en ook nie 'n kantoor om terugbetalings aan te bied of te verwerk nie. Dit kan problematies wees om terugbetalings per pos te ontvang nadat u tuis is.

Sulke uitdagings veroorsaak dat ernstige kopers vaarte op soek na werklike belasting- en belastingvrye en sterk mededingende plekke. Waar u ook al van plan is om te koop, sal navorsing u help om elke hawe en handelaars te verstaan, wat u kan sien en wat dit elders kos.

Sien ook Inkopies en Bedinging.

Eet

Restaurant op die Noorse Dawn

Die meeste lyne belê baie in voedselkwaliteit en -hoeveelheid, en hulle spog daaroor. Etes is selde nie ingesluit by die prys van 'n tipiese vaart nie, met af en toe uitsonderlike spesialiteitsrestaurante en kamerdiens.

Ingesluit aanbod sluit die swembad in versnaperinge waar u 'n burger, 'hond', skud, pizza of iets kan bestel, en kan loop sonder om te betaal. Dit is natuurlik nie 'gratis' nie; jy het daarvoor betaal toe jy jou kaartjie gekoop het. Op feitlik alle cruiseskepe vind u ook 'n buffet, gewoonlik op een van die boonste dekke, beskikbaar gedurende alle etenstye en bied gewoonlik iets van vroegoggend tot laataand aan. Buffets kan op beter skepe amper soos uitspattigheid lyk. Kamerdiens is gewoonlik te alle tye beskikbaar, behalwe na 'n sekere laat tyd die nag voor die aanvang van die meeste cruise lyne. Soms moet u daarvoor 'n fooi of 'n toeslag vir laatnag betaal.

Op normale etenstye vind u dit uit sit eetkamer met 'n volledige kelnerediens, gewoonlik met 'n veelgang-spyskaart met uiteenlopende disse. (Klam swembroeke kan eetkamerstoele beskadig; dra dit nie daar nie, selfs nie onder 'n omslag of bedekking nie; selfs al is dit droog, kan u die personeel van die eetkamer alarm maak.) Ten minste een eetkamer bied sit ontbyt en middagete (u het selde 'n tabel wat gereeld toegeken word). Dit sal ongeveer 2-3 uur oop wees vir elke maaltyd. Vir ontbyt kan die spyskaart nie elke dag veel verander nie. Vir middag- en aandete sal die spyskaart elke dag verander. Vir aandete is daar gewoonlik 'n afdeling vir items wat altyd beskikbaar is, en een vir die aand se "specials".

Tradisionele aandetes diens is op vasgestelde tye, musikaal vroeg / hoof en laat. As u 'n tyd- en tafelgrootte kies (verkies die beste as u 'n reis bespreek), sit u elke aand op dieselfde tyd aan dieselfde tafel.

  • As u tafelvoorkeure nie nagekom is nie (ten minste op u kajuit se sleutelkaart aangedui), kontak die kantoor so gou as moontlik na die aanvang vir hulp.
  • Uitsonderings op u gewone tyd en tafel kan voorkom as die skip in die hawe is en baie passasiers aan wal eet. Die daaglikse nuusbrief sal dit noem. As dit die geval is, kan u 'n ander tafel met 'vreemdelinge' deel, selfs in 'n ander eetkamer.

Tafelgrootte kan wissel van 2 tot 8-10 mense, soms meer. Ronde tafels vir 6-8 lyk bevorderlik vir 'n maklike gesprek onder almal. Tensy u / u groep 'n tafel ten volle beset, sal u ander gaste as tafelmaats ontmoet. Dit is gewoonlik 'n interessante tyd, met 'n verslag wat verder gaan as wat moontlik is met 'n nuwe stel vreemdelinge by 'oop sit' (sien hieronder). Dit het ook help u kelners om belangrike behoeftes en voorkeure te leer en te voorsienkosher, vegetariër, voedselallergieë, drankvoorkeure en tydsberekening.

Die restaurant van 'n kleiner riviervaartuigskip

Om goeie diens te verseker, bereik u tafel binne 30 minute nadat die eetkamer oopgemaak word vir u sit. Groot kombuise moet 'n paar gangetjies per keer enkele honderde (miskien duisende) passasiers bedien met verwagtinge van varsheid en behoorlike temperature.

Baie cruise lyne bied vryslag, keuse of oop sitkamer eetkamer, wat ete op enige tyd gedurende etenstyd toelaat. Dit kan in aparte eetkamers aangebied word, maar spyskaarte sal dieselfde wees as vir geskeduleerde vergaderings. As u binnekom, moet u dalk wag vir 'n tafel, net soos u dit sou doen sonder besprekings vir restaurante tuis. As dit veral besig is, het u net 'n paar in u partytjie en is u bereid om dit aan die Maitre de te vertel dat u "sal deel". Dit help hom / haar baie om tafels / sitplekke doeltreffend te gebruik, sodat dit vinnig kan sit.

Die meeste skepe bied ook aan spesiale restaurante, dikwels met internasionale temas, gewoonlik slegs op voorbehoud. (As u geen bespreking het nie, kan u probeer "sal deel", maar vertrou nie daarop nie; die meeste eetgaste wat daar bespreek het, verwag nie om dit te deel nie.) Baie sulke restaurante het 'n toeslag (byvoorbeeld $ 20 per persoon) of meer) vir uitsonderlike diens en disse, die welverdiendste. As u gewoonlik tydens 'n vaste sitting gaan eet, maar vanoggend 'n spesiale restaurant wil gebruik, moet u die gewone kelner die vorige aand daarvan vertel.

Aanbevole aandrok in eetkamers wissel ietwat oor cruise lyne. Vir enige besonderhede verduidelik elke cruise-lyn die verwagte kleredrag op sy webwerf, en u moet besonderhede op webwerwe vind om te vaar.

  • Baie "hooflyn" -skepe verklaar dat die eet van die meeste aande net 'n "country-klub" of 'n "toevlugsoord" benodig: 'n kraaghemp en 'n broek vir mans, byna alles behalwe swembroek vir vroue (ons spot). Hulle het ook een of twee "formele" nagte per week: tux of donker kostuum en das vir mans, aanddrag vir vroue.
  • Sommige luukse lyne kan elke aand as semi-formeel verklaar word - jas en das vir mans, aanddrag vir vroue.
  • Vir elke aand geld dieselfde kleredragstandaarde in spesiale restaurante.

Jy sal jouself in die verleentheid stel, jou tafelmaats, jou kelner en ander as jy na jou eetkamer gaan vir ete met jeans, kortbroeke, 'n tenk of soortgelyke gemaklike / swembroek aan, en onvoldoende aantrek op formele nagte. U mag ook sitplek geweier word.

As u geen belangstelling het vir 'sit' op formele aande (of enige aand nie), kan u die buffet eerder vir aandete gebruik. Kosaanbiedings sal ietwat soortgelyk wees aan dié in die eetkamers die aand, maar dit ontbreek dikwels items wat ingewikkelde diens benodig. Die kleredrag sluit onderdak in die swembad in. Die buffet bied indirek nog 'n voordeel: as u na / van die hawe moet vlieg en u bagasiegrense te maklik kan oorskry (bv. Moet u inpak vir klein kinders of bejaardes en uself), oorweeg dit om semi- en formele drag te verlaat (en skoene / bykomstighede) tuis. U kan die pakplek en gewig wat andersins benodig word, met 20-25 persent verminder.

Drink

Bar op MS Eurodam

Tipiese krammetjies soos koffie, tee / ystee, limonade en sappe (tydens ontbyt) is gratis beskikbaar. Ander drankies is gewoonlik nie by die prys van die cruise ingesluit nie, selfs al is 'n allesomvattende 'in die promosieblaadjie van die cruise.

  • Daardie "ander" (bv. koeldrank, gebottelde water, vars gepersde sappe, spesiale koffies, biere, wyn, mengeldrankies) kan duur wees. Pryse wat ingesluit is, sluit nie 'n diensfooi van 15-18 persent in nie.
  • Verwag om een ​​of meer goed toegeruste kroeë op alle openbare dekke te vind, wat kundig volgens u voorkeure voorsiening maak, en baie gaan oop tot laatoggend en sommige bly baie laat oop.
  • Al die eetkamers het 'n baie goeie wynlys, met 'n paar glasaanbiedings, asook gebottelde water, mengeldrankies en spesiale koffies. As u die aand nie 'n bottel wyn klaarmaak nie, maak hulle dit graag weer kurk en sit u kajuitnommer daarop om dit op 'n ander tyd gratis te herroep. As u u eie wyn (bottel) vir aandete saamgebring het, bedien hulle dit, maar hef 'n "kurkfooi"; as dit nie by daardie maaltyd verteer word nie, sal hulle weer kurk vir later gebruik op dieselfde manier as 'n gekoopte bottel.
  • Die yskas in u kajuit kan gevul wees met koeldrank, skyfies of lekkers. Let op as hulle betaal, veral as u kinders het. Die gemak kan weerstand oorkom ten spyte van die koste.

Baie cruise lyne bied drinkpakkette vir onbeperkte hervulling van koeldrank, sommige vir spesiale koffies, wyn, selfs 'n paar vir mengeldrankies. Baie sluit die diensfooi in. Maar verstaan ​​die voorwaardes duidelik voordat u daartoe verbind. Voorbeelde:

  • 'N "Pop / soda-pas" kos US $ 30-45 vir 'n week (per persoon, nie te deel nie), wat gelyk kan wees aan 5-8 afsonderlik gekoopte drankies elke dag. ('N Aansienlike gemiddelde daaglikse verbruikskoers.)
  • 'N Mengeldrankie-pakket begin by US $ 50 per persoon per dag, terwyl u 'n "bier en wyn saam met u maaltyd" -pakket vir VS $ 25 (Januarie 2020) kan kry. Die meeste drankies wat apart verkoop word, kos US $ 7–11 of so. Weereens, dit beteken 'n aansienlike daaglikse verbruik om die pakket die moeite werd te maak, veral as u oorweeg om te wankel, uh, om aan wal te gaan.
  • As u die aankoop van 'n pakket 'n dag of meer vertraag, bly die prys dieselfde.
  • U is nie verpligtend om enige pakketsoort vir almal in u groep aan te skaf nie. Maar die pakketvoorwaardes verbied om u drankies met enigiemand te deel.

As u nie die servicegeld in ag neem nie, kan sommige mengeldrankies goedkoper wees as wat u by beter watergate aan land kan kry, maar reken nie daarop nie. However, you'll usually find drink specials mentioned in the ship's daily newsletter.

These costs prompt some people to try to bring their own. But most lines forbid bringing liquor on board, and any found (at embarkation or as you board from later port visits) will be "held for you", and returned on the last full day of the cruise in the same packaging as received. A few lines confiscate contraband liquor. A few others will allow you to initially bring 1-2 bottles of wine per cabin; if opened/decanted outside your cabin, you'll be charged the "corkage fee" as above. Most lines will allow you to bring your own soft drinks. For details, consult the cruise line web site.

Some ships are primarily party vessels, full of young adults taking advantage of bargain duty-free drinks and (perhaps) lower drinking ages in international waters. You may identify them by their extremely uneventful itineraries: straight out to sea, stay there for much of the trip, then back to port. Their advertising is usually also not particularly subtle. If you want one, you'll recognize the signs; if you want to avoid one, likewise.

Responsible cruise lines avoid unbridled drinking by:

  • Requiring at least one occupant of each cabin to be a minimum age (with some exceptions for legitimate families) and by not serving alcohol to anyone under 21.
  • Training and directing wait staffs to control service to those who've had too much.

Slaap

Twin Cabin on P&O MV Azura

Let your travel agent or cruise line know your cabin needs in advance to ensure your cabin assignment and preparation meets them.

Shortly after arriving at your cabin, introduce yourself to your cabin steward as he/she stops by, and discuss any preferences or needs for service not already met, e.g., ice at certain times, softer or firmer pillows, emptying the refrigerator of unwanted items. He/she will often have an assistant, and will both work as a team. If you brought sanitizing wipes or solution, you might sanitize key surfaces like the lavatory counters, telephone handset, TV remote and desktop — the latter is often missed in their cabin preparation.

For families, in addition to the bedding noted earlier, some cabins will have a pull-down bunk-bed (not appropriate for small children due to safety, or for full-sized adults due to height and weight) and/or a pull-out sleeper-settee or sleeper-sofa. If you've booked as a family, your steward will "unlock" any "pull-down" or pull-out, for your use whenever desired. It will be made-up each morning and prepared for use each evening.

If there are more than 2 adults, your cabin steward will prepare the second bed or sleeper-sofa each morning and evening. For 3-4 adults, ensure your agent or the cruise line chooses a cabin with at least some visual privacy for sleepers. Suites usually have such privacy, and often more options. The cabin steward (or butler) will be ready to explain use of all and prepare them as needed.

If your cabin is not as described, desired or needed on arrival, resolve the issues through your cabin steward before you retire the first night.

Bly veilig

Lifeboat on the Queen Mary II

Because of the numerous advancements in modern shipbuilding and other technology, cruise travel is generally very safe. The crew of your ship are trained to calmly and efficiently handle emergencies that may arise. Occasionally, non-trivial problems may be discovered and addressed while going completely unnoticed by passengers.

Unlike the oseaan voerings of yore, cruise ships are not built for great speed or unusual maneuvers. Whenever feasible, they avoid bad weather even if this means delays, in deference to security and passenger comfort.

The press often recounts public incidents/accidents — a few deservedly, that may induce unnecessary cruise-customer concern.

  • Cruise accidents resulting in serious passenger injuries or deaths are rare when one remembers that hundreds of ships are at sea at any moment nearly every day of the year. Cruise lines and every ship's captain and his/her crew regularly train for problems and inspect ship condition and sanitation to thoroughly minimize troubles.
  • Stories about the frequency of sickness outbreaks often get overblown. The same maladies affect all travel and group occasions. Only on a cruise does enough time lapse for symptoms to surface 2-4 days after infection.

Aboard

Follow what you learned at the Safety at Sea briefing. In the event of a life-threatening emergency, instructions will be given on where to report (not necessarily your lifeboat or muster station designated in the briefing) and what to bring with you (e.g., adequate clothing, crucial medications, your life vest and cruise ID card). You'll know what to do if you're distant from your cabin. Remain as orderly as you can and do not panic as you muster or are evacuated; acting out of place will only make matters more complicated and increase chances of injury to yourself or others.

Be aware of your surroundings at all times, especially at night. Don't worry about going about on your own, just be vigilant around bars where late-night, intoxicated passengers are a possibility. Keep an eye on your belongings and don't flaunt nor take them with you everywhere; leaving your iPod on a pool chair unattended while you quickly order a drink is just asking for someone to snatch it. Lock expensive items and jewelry in your cabin safe, then use or wear it only when appropriate.

Families traveling with children should be cautious as well. While family-friendly lines like Disney are "age-proofed" for their safety, other lines and older ships may not be and there are many hazards that could put them in a dangerous situation; e.g. being left unsupervised on a balcony, falling down the stairs, swimming in a pool without a lifeguard, etc. Older teenagers should be given some freedom about what they'd like to do and where they want to relax during the cruise, but you should always know the whereabouts of younger children. Some ships even offer two-way, on-board "walkie talkies" for rent for your group to stay in-touch.

Very minor fires are not rare, especially in the many restaurant kitchens on board, e.g., in fryers. The crew is trained and equipped to deal with them. There is no reason to panic just because you see a crew member with extinguishing equipment.

Piracy incidents are virtually nonexistent in the regions of the world where most cruise lines sail (North en Suid-Amerika, Europa, etc.). It can be a legitimate concern to cruisers sailing some waters, e.g., near a few African countries and a few locations in Asia. However, no ship has ever been boarded by pirates if going more than 17 knots, a speed easily attained by cruise ships. Many ships plying those waters also have non-lethal means to "discourage" pirates.

Always report anything suspicious or concerning to a crew member; they will investigate or get someone who can to investigate the matter. Trust your instincts as well. If a situation or activity doesn't feel "right" to you, it may not be, e.g., substantial smell of smoke may be cause to activate the fire alarm.

Ashore

While you are safest while on-board the ship, this may not be the case ashore. It's useful to learn a bit about each destination you plan to visit beforehand and to act responsibly wherever you are.

When ashore, hold on to your boarding card as though it's your passport - without it you may not be allowed back on board without substantial delay. Actually, at many destinations, passengers won't need to present or carry their passport - the boarding card is enough. However, you should always carry at least a passport photocopy and government-issued photo identification as well as your ship's card.

Bly gesond

Typical pool area

Sunburn

Sien ook: Sonbrand en sonbeskerming

At sea, on beaches or small boats, bare skin can sunburn very rapidly between mid-morning and mid-afternoon. That ruins cruises for more people than any other cause. Sunburns (and their pain) can last until well after you return home. For a few, they may later induce permanent skin damage, and even cancer. So before you'll be exposed to sun for more than a short time, take effective precautions with clothing, a hat and highly-rated sunblock so that you can fully enjoy whatever recreation you choose.

Queasiness

No discussion here of any medication is authoritative. Consult your physician or pharmacist for any question or issue.

Some people experience queasiness on cruise ships. This is very unlikely on large or recently-built vessels, which consistently have highly effective stabilizers. Even so, some sensitive inner ears may react to even imperceptibly slow and gentle rocking of a calm sea. Localized intense storms may make the ocean rough for a day or so. And very-occasionally, major storms can't be avoided, but full-fledged tropical storms always are.

  • If you know or worry that it may be a problem, pick a cabin location that minimizes movement when the ship rolls and pitches; e.g., amidship and/or on a lower deck.
  • Over-the-counter motion sickness medications (e.g., Dramamine, Bonine) usually help. (Reportedly, Draminine has a tendency to cause drowsiness that can make it impractical to use for the duration of a cruise.)
  • Prescription trans-dermal Scopalomine patches can be very effective. But a few people have troubling side-effects. So, (with the permission/help of a doctor) test a patch before the cruise if you like the multi-day convenience they promise.
  • Some people find relief with special wristbands that claim to stimulate pressure points that are believed to counteract the nausea of motion sickness. Their effectiveness has not yet been clinically verified.

Staying well can be as simple as eating (and drinking) responsibly. Generous helpings of that beautiful, fresh pineapple for breakfast every morning can cause problems, as can the portions of wonderful and rich delights at dinner. Marine biologists know that the calf of a blue whale can gain up to 30 pounds per day. The next fastest weight-gaining mammal may be the cruise passenger - actually known to gain 6-7 pounds per week if he or she "over celebrates".

Care about exercise and choices of tours

If you exercise only occasionally or seldom, you may find the ship's gym tempting. "Exercise" some moderation in the same way you would with sunbathing to ensure it doesn't compromise enjoying your cruise. Similarly, available tours will demand different levels of physical effort. Whether privately arranged or offered by the ship, understand what each demands and choose wisely.

Outbreaks

Passengers and crew are susceptible to communicable diseases (e.g., the flu, colds, Norovirus), but thankfully this happens only baie occasionally due to great effort and care by the ship's staff, and by passengers who cooperate with health protections. It occurs because large numbers of people from countless places have close proximity, share facilities, forget to be responsible, and stay aboard long enough for symptoms to appear.

Prevention

Most maladies spread much in the same ways as the common cold. Stifling coughs and sneezes into your sleeve helps greatly. And ships regularly provide hand disinfectant dispensers at entrances to dining areas; use them, but don't rely completely on them. You can help yourself if you:

  • Wash hands very frequently and thoroughly.
  • Substitute "elbow bumps" for handshakes with staff and fellow passengers; at the very least, wash up well after shaking someone's hand.
  • Use sanitizing wipes or solution on key parts of your cabin occasionally. This is no criticism of your cabin steward, whose efforts will also be thorough, but an added protection nonetheless.
  • Use your cabin bathroom rather than public restrooms whenever you can.

If you become ill

  • Report it as soon as possible, very preferably by cabin phone.
  • The medical staff can help considerably, may attend to you in your cabin, and may direct you to remain there and cancel any port visits until you recover (usually within a couple days) to avoid spreading the malady. Such direction is often reinforced by law in ports.
  • If the illness is deemed the ship's responsibility (e.g., several other passengers have or have had it), you may not be charged for medical services and may receive reimbursement for pre-paid but missed ship's tours.
  • Specially-equipped teams of ship's staff will thoroughly clean and sanitize any "accidents" in your cabin. So report them, and report public accidents as well.

Ships that see "possible signs" of an outbreak (even several passengers with sea-sickness) will set up extensive precautions and health/sanitation protocols to limit spread of any infectious agent. This can include hand sanitizer dispensers at entry to all public areas, barriers to self-help in buffets, nearly constant sanitizing of railings, door handles and public restrooms everywhere. Use and respect those measures.

Food and drink ashore

Although shipboard food and water will be sanitary, the usual precautions for overseas travel should be taken when eating and drinking ashore.

  • Advance research about your port visits should include looking for possible health risks.
  • In well-developed countries and touristy areas, food and water mag be safe. In addition to research, consult the ship's port descriptions and the port adviser. Even with assurances, take care with sidewalk food stands and road-side cafés. Crowds of locals only indicate popularity and low cost, not necessarily safety.
  • In less developed countries, ports and areas, take care to avoid local water and food-borne bacteria or parasites, including drinks made with ice a bar/restaurant may make using local tap water.
  • If in doubt about getting water ashore, buy it in sealed, labeled bottles.
  • Restrooms in "rustic" places in any country may have no tissues or napkins, so bring your own.
  • As with safety, there might also be health risks ashore that are not present on-board — especially in tropical countries. Before your cruise, check the situation in each of the destinations you'll visit.

Carrying bottled water

Few ports prohibit bringing bottles of water ashore. You'll see pricey offerings each time you leave the ship. Ask a ship's officer in-advance if sealed bottles are necessary; if not, you could refill your own, with buffet beverage/water dispensers perhaps offering better tasting water than that in your cabin.

Medical staff

Nearly all cruise ships have one, with an accredited doctor. Larger ships may also have two or more nurses or even a dentist. Most will offer open hours ("sick call") in the morning and late afternoon for routine ailments, with on-demand response (even in-cabin) for injuries or major illnesses. Most can effectively render first- and second-aid, perhaps more depending on the doctor's experience and on-board facilities, e.g., X-ray. They carry basic medications and supplies typically needed for cruises. Don't depend on them to replace special medications you use, even with near-equivalents.

  • If the ship's itinerary is quite repetitive during a season, the doctor mag have standing with pharmacies in some ports. He/she mag be able to issue usable scripts for your needs, but the ship's staff must pick up the medications at a fee to you. Again, don't expect the pharmacy on an island to be stocked with the medications you require - in some cases "pharmacy" might only be a shelf in the harbor's convenience store.
  • Unless your problem appears to have been caused by some condition or event that's the ship's responsibility, expect to be charged a fee for their services. Your regular health insurance may not cover such fees, but good trip insurance usually does.
  • Some ships have modest dialysis capability. If you need it, learn in advance if it's the type you need and you can reserve time slots. If available and as needed, reserve the service/times through your agent if you used one. Check with your health insurance agent to see if your regular health insurance covers any or all of what will be a substantial cost. Also check (before you commit to initial coverage) if your trip insurance covers this need.
  • Though the doctor and staff often wear ship's uniforms, many are concessionaires, not ship or cruise line officers. Nevertheless, for serious conditions, the doctor's decision about continuing your cruise under illness or injury will usually prevail. Medical evacuation can be unbelievably expensive, and so you should ensure it will be covered by your trip insurance.

Physical limitations

If you have physical limitations, have your agent arrange needed services in advance, e.g., wheelchair to embark/disembark, for port visits/during the cruise, perhaps even to rent a "power chair" motorized wheelchair (usually only available for round-trip cruises).

Verbind

Calling

Many cruise ships are now equipped with cell phone-to-satellite transponders, which take over automatically at sea to provide wireless phone service throughout the ship. Your cell phone works just like at home and bills its usage back to your regular cell phone bill.

  • As your phone switches over to that "Cellular at Sea", you are roaming at their pricey per minute rates — the allotment of minutes on your plan doesn't apply here. Data should work as well, but cost can add up fast if your phone automatically checks e-mail.
  • Once the ship docks at a port with available cell service compatible with your phone, and you then turn it on or disable flight mode, your phone will likely use shore signals instead, providing that your cell phone company has a roaming contract with a local cell-service provider. Keep in mind that international calling from island nations' networks can be rather expensive too.
  • Experienced cruisers (wanting to avoid ship's costs) simply ensure that their cell phones are turned off or in flight mode while on-board.

Most ships offer ship-to-shore phone service from your cabin, but again at rather expensive rates. They may also levy heavy tolls on people at home who call you by phone on the ship.

Internet on-board

On-board Internet cafés and Wi-Fi hotspots are increasingly common, but the rates also tend to be fairly steep and the speeds (usually relying on high-latency satellite links shared with ship's business) can be unimpressive, though that is improving on some lines.

  • All usage will involve a fee, unless it's been paid-for in-advance as a kind of perk. If not, you may well want to buy a block of minutes (also linked to megabytes of usage), at a lower per-minute rate, early in your cruise. You'll have two basic ways of using Internet: at the "Internet Café" on desktop PCs (that can print essential papers, e.g., flight boarding passes at a small fee per page), or through your laptop/tablet.
  • If offered in your cabin, WiFi signal strength should be decent and dependable, but check it first on your device. Coverage elsewhere may vary wildly: most of the ship is constructed of steel — an unfriendly material for dependable wireless connections.
  • As with "calling" above, you may be able to use the local, on-shore cell phone/WiFi network for logging-in when the ship is docked or anchored very near a populated coast. This will be cheaper and likely faster than what the ship provides, but probably much slower and definitely more expensive than at home.
  • 'Avoid depending on a ship's Internet service to download major files of any kind, e.g., video clips, security/software updates. Networked, real time gaming will be frustrating and expensive. On-board, consider limiting yourself to e-mail, unless cost is no object. If using faster services ashore (and promptly back home), you might turn your automatic updates back on.
  • If you can, avoid depending on the day before disembarkation to conduct essential business. It's usually the busiest day for on-board internet use, with unusually slow response because so many passengers are checking flight details/getting boarding passes, using up surplus pre-purchased time, and doing other tasks, all while ship's business is especially intense. PCs in the Internet Café will be equally busy.

Internet ashore

If you find these cautions worrisome, you can usually find Internet cafés and WiFi nets at or near many ports, often offering much better rates and speed. You'll often find nets in modern cruise terminals: look for ship's staff. Also look for them for objective advice — they use other port cafés as well.

Anytime you use any computer while traveling, ensure that all private or sensitive portions of your sessions and data are secure, e.g., avoid doing financial or highly-personal business, use your own laptop if possible, have pro-active security capabilities installed and running, use wired Ethernet instead of WiFi if possible, set up a unique and complex password just for the trip, look for the https in networked sessions any time privacy or security is needed. See more discussion at Internet access.

Hanteer

Bathing in hot springs on Deception Island as part of an Antarctic cruise

Look for laundry rooms in ship descriptions—not all ships have them. If laundry rooms are available, each will have two or more pairs of washers/dryers, detergent and softener dispensers (all usually taking coins/tokens, obtained at the Purser's desk, or perhaps from a coin machine in the laundry room), and irons and ironing boards. A large ship may have a laundry room on each deck where cabins are located.

If you'll be cruising for more than a week or so, on a ship without self-serve laundry facilities, you may have to pack substantially more clothes. All ships offer laundry services, but they're quite pricey. Some folks bring detergent (e.g., Woolite) to hand-wash select items in their cabin, though humidity creates extended drying times.

Gaan volgende

This is a recap of a typical disembarkation process. Near the end of each cruise segment (not necessarily when you'll finally disembark), the Cruise Director will give a briefing that covers specific details for that ship/cruise and debarkation port, to include likely local customs and immigration (C&I) processing. His/her comments will also cover those staying aboard for the next segment.

Final processing to leave the ship is called "debarkation" or "disembarkation". This involves getting perhaps a few thousand passengers off the ship as efficiently as possible. You can't all leave at once. So you'll likely receive a questionnaire several days before the cruise segment end, asking what travel arrangements (if any) you have made to return home. Your answers (e.g., staying aboard, end-of-cruise tour, scheduled flight departure date/time) will determine in what group you will disembark. ("Staying aboard" may still require some form of immigration processing on or off the ship. If so, that will also be arranged and announced.)

  • Two or so days before your final cruise end, you'll receive luggage tags indicating your debarkation group. Instructions that come with them will indicate the time your group is scheduled to be called to leave the ship.
    • If your group's scheduled debarkation provides too little time to comfortably reach a necessary place ashore in plenty of time (e.g., your airline's check-in counter), notify the Pursor's Office/customer service immediately.
  • On most ships, those tags will be colored and/or numbered. You can obtain more from the pursor/customer service desk if needed.
  • On the last night, place a tag on a fixed handle of each piece of your luggage and put at least your large, packed luggage outside your cabin door—usually by 10 or 11PM. It will be taken by stewards that night for you to claim ashore in the terminal the next morning.
    • Unlike airlines, you can put out two or more pieces per person. If you're flying home, you'll need a way to deal with all pieces somewhere ashore before check-in for your flight.
  • You can also put out carry-on bags, but:
    • Don't pack in them what you'll need in the morning, e.g., keep necessary toiletries/other liquids, something to wear to leave the ship. If you'll be flying home, you'll need to later transfer some items (e.g., liquids you've kept for morning use) into your to-be-checked luggage before you approach the airline counter for a flight.
    • Always keep with you any bags that have medications, valuables and valuable papers inside.
    • Do not re-lock the room safe after you take out belongings for the last time. If you do, the next occupants of your cabin will have to ask a very-busy technician to open it, often with a considerable wait.

Some ships offer a "walk off" or "express" disembarkation option. On the questionnaire, you can choose to leave the ship early as part of such a group receiving special, expedited C&I processing if you carry off all your possessions. If you opt for it, do not miss the call for your group to disembark, or you will be directed to leave in the very last group instead. Everyone in your party should opt for it; otherwise, you'll be processed and outside the terminal perhaps 2-3 hours before the rest reach you.

At some major ports, some ships offer special luggage handling services for flying home on certain airlines. For a fee, late the last night, they will take specially-tagged luggage to (perhaps through) your airline check-in at the airport. Before you opt for this, understand the process and your responsibilities, e.g., all belongings you have in-hand to go through pier-side customs, the others as designated elsewhere.

Typically, people opting for express walk-off, those having early flights or cruise-line shore excursions are given the earliest group debarkation times.

Your last morning, you may be instructed to leave your cabin somewhat early (yes, at least one dining room and the buffet will open quite early for breakfast), and proceed to a specific public area on the ship to wait to be called to disembark.

  • Consider having a hearty breakfast. You may face several hours before the next opportunity for decent food.
  • If anyone in your personal group has a physical limitation affecting debarkation, request help in-advance. He/she may be given permission (and baggage tags) to depart at any time to include members of the family. If he/she needs to be seated while waiting (perhaps 1–2 hours) to disembark, they should go to your assigned public area promptly after breakfast.
  • Your waiting area won't necessarily be on the same deck as for exiting the ship. If not, you may have to negotiate stairs with your belongings because elevators will be very busy; those with mobility challenges will have priority.
  • In that waiting area, you'll eventually be called by color/number to disembark — usually not before the scheduled time.
    • Many ships do not call groups using the public address system. You may be notified only by staff in your assigned public area.
    • If you're not part of the "express" group that leaves early, and you miss your "regular" group's call, you can usually leave any time later without complications.

As you walk off the ship into the terminal, you'll be ushered to a large area with masses of luggage, considerably less if you disembark in one of the last groups. Your luggage will be arranged according to your disembarkation group. You'll need to pick-out your pieces and proceed to C&I or other processing if any. Porters will likely be available to help. After any processing, many options begin, e.g.,

  • If you have an end-of-cruise tour, cruise extension or prepaid airport transfer arranged, you'll be ushered to a bus or other vehicle to transport you, often with your luggage placed on board.
  • Other transport can take many forms, e.g., self-arranged taxis, surries to paid parking lots or local hotels.

Once you leave the terminal to travel independently, or after any ship's tour or cruise extension, you basically have full responsibility to reach whatever destination or follow-on transport awaits.

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