Newbie questions: bringing a car on a cruise? Dress code? And more...

Since your original post is over a year old, I wonder if you are still contemplating this adventure? If so, here is my advice.

I agree with others who stated you can't bring your RV on a cruise ship, so you will have to make separate arrangements for the vehicle.

You sound a bit like my daughter, who is also on the spectrum (Asperger's). While I understand your need to control your environment, I must caution you that aside from your cabin, it will be difficult to accomplish on a cruise ship. There are many different things going on simultaneously, and they all send out a ton of stimuli. I would suggest you have a close friend or trusted family member accompany you on this journey. Someone who is aware of your condition and understands your needs in stressful situations. They can help ground you during periods of high anxiety. Lacking that, I would highly recommend you at least make the ship's doctor, your cabin steward, and the head of guest services aware of your condition prior to sailing. They can show you the locations of the less stressful areas areas of the ship (ex: library, adults only sections, lesser used venues) early on, so you don't have to frantically search for them in the middle of an anxiety attack

As for clothing, you can pretty much wear whatever you want in the dining areas, aside from swimwear, bare feet or "vulgar" items. They will probably have specific "formal" or "cruise elegant" nights in the main dining rooms, but you can skip them and just eat at the buffet or other venues on the ship those evenings.

Obviously the current pandemic situation will mandate additional precautions, such as masks, social distancing, hand hygiene stations etc.... but you would probably be more comfortable with all that anyway.

Hope this helps, and good luck to you.

T-shirts and trousers are the best dress code while traveling through the water because it's convenient unless your trip is a business trip. For casual men's shopping use Tahari ASL coupons.

I've been on 10 cruises and only 2 cruise allows me to take a motorcycle with me, and they also have too many restrictions on that.

As far as the dress codes, they used to be strict. For my last cruise tour, I bought special cruise clothes from Reecoupons. I suggest you to confirm each and everything with the management otherwise your trip will get spoil. If you want to buy clothes for a cruise I recommend you to check Reecoupons, currently, there is an on-going offer of Father's day coupon 2020. Here you will get all the cruise special clothes and accessories.

There are specialty dining restaurants aboard the ship, which will be a separate charge (contact the cruise line to find out what the options and pricing are), The Main Dining Room and the Windjammer (café) will be free.

Regarding Australia - I toured around Australia many years ago with my Girlfriend in an RV. To avoid the expenses of renting or shipping the best way is to just buy an RV when you get there and when you leave just sell it. We sold our RV for almost the same cost as we bought it 6 months later as they are in such high demand. In effect it is free RV Rental - the only cost we had were petrol, food and living expenses. I'm sure this would work for the USA too. I know in Australia some dealers give you a guaranteed buyback price so you know what it is going to cost you - they obviously are in it for the money so they always make on the deal. But if you do a Private Sale (like we did) you can generally sell on at the same price.

If your condition means you have to have an RV exactly like your model maybe you can buy a Brand New Model and sell when the trip is complete in the country purchased. You will lose a larger amount in depreciation but think it far less than in shipping costs both ways.

This has been done using a freighter and booking passage on them. Some have decent passenger facilities. Check with your travel agent or the freight carriers directly. There is a carrier in Fiji that is on my bucket list, so there should be others. I would not be to concerned about the dress code on one of these ships. I would also be one heck of an adventure. Good luck in your search.

It seems like the only way to do it would be through an auto shipping company.
It will cost about $1500 per direction, so definitely worth it for a longer trip.

Very interesting! Thank you for the information!

Vehicles of that class are shipped on a different class of ship; however, you can bring motorcycles on certain ships. There are motorcycle themed tours offered on several lines, but very high demand and must be booked a year in advance. They also have fairly limited itineraries.

Right on!