GANGWAY COLLAPSES IN PANAMA

Understand completely. Interesting decision. We're in the same category, more or less...Her more, me less...But because we REFUSE to fly, and I won't spend more than 1 full day on the road, it is what it is.

Understand completely. Interesting decision. We're in the same category, more or less...Her more, me less...But because we REFUSE to fly, and I won't spend more than 1 full day on the road, it is what it is.

My wife and I sailed on the CCL Magic back in May on it's maiden voyage out of Norfolk. I have mobility issues too, hip and back. We found the larger ship was tiring as well. But the worst part for me was the embarkation at Norfolk. The terminal only has one elevator to the floor where screening begins and a lengthy line when you get off it or the stairs. Seeing the elevator line we opted to try the stairs only to greet that long line at the top. Lesson learned. Norfolk just isn't suited for large ships.

Almost. We had booked a March 23' sailing out of Galveston aboard the Vista, but had to cancel due to an announced family event during that week. As it turned out, that was a blessing in disguise, because we learned a lesson on our past cruise aboard the CCL Magic that is going to affect all of our future cruise planning. The Magic was the largest ship we had sailed on to date. Both my wife and I have mobility issues (me: back, her: hips and knees). Although we are still ambulatory, we only have a limited amount of steps in us each day. We found that the Magic wore us out earlier than smaller ship we had been on. So, our new tact will be to book cruises on the smaller ships while they're still around. To that end we rebooked our 3/23 Vista cruise to a 2/23 cruise aboard the Spirit out of Miami.

Almost. We had booked a March 23' sailing out of Galveston aboard the Vista, but had to cancel due to an announced family event during that week. As it turned out, that was a blessing in disguise, because we learned a lesson on our past cruise aboard the CCL Magic that is going to affect all of our future cruise planning. The Magic was the largest ship we had sailed on to date. Both my wife and I have mobility issues (me: back, her: hips and knees). Although we are still ambulatory, we only have a limited amount of steps in us each day. We found that the Magic wore us out earlier than smaller ship we had been on. So, our new tact will be to book cruises on the smaller ships while they're still around. To that end we rebooked our 3/23 Vista cruise to a 2/23 cruise aboard the Spirit out of Miami.

BTW have YOU ever cruised out of Galveston or NOLA?

Me thinks PRIVATEER43's post may have gotten taken down yank. It was what would be called in todays politically "woke" climate insensitive, inappropriate, offensive....etc. My phone captured it though, and I'll show it to you if we ever run into each other.

We've sailed from both. We will be sailing out of Galveston again in January. The most frustrating part is getting from Houston (closest airport) to Galveston; unless you know of a reasonably priced way to do so.

Me thinks PRIVATEER43's post may have gotten taken down yank. It was what would be called in todays politically "woke" climate insensitive, inappropriate, offensive....etc. My phone captured it though, and I'll show it to you if we ever run into each other.