What do you think about four sea days in a row? (or even more???)

I check into cruisemapper several times a day now. During this time of year three Carnival ships are doing the North Western part of Mexico. Imagination, Inspiration, and Miracle. Then I noticed Miracle creeping northward. It's headed to Alaska from LA. Four sea days in a row. I was wondering what people think about that many sea days. If I ever go to Alaska I'll probably do it from Seattle so I don't have as many sea days in a row.

So what's your opinion? Do what you can to shorten the number of sea days in a row or it doesn't matter to you?

Tags: Carnival Cruise Lines Carnival Miracle

38 Answers

I would love it! I love sea days...nothing to do but relax, eat and drink!!

We love sea days!! We ride the same ship 2 or 3 times just for being at sea. Generally we stay on the ship when we do the Cozumel/Progresso cruise. Love the blue water splashing on the side of the ship. Sure the ship gets most of our cash, but the saying is"the ship is the destination"

Thanks. Just got back to the big city late yesterday afternoon. I don't know if I mentioned it before but I spend most of my summers at my place in the Wrangell Mountains with the critters. Smack in the middle of the nation's largest national Park, Wrangell-St. Elias and Preserve. This is the 22nd year since retirement I've done that. For a variety of reasons, including we had pretty good weather most of the time, compared to Anchorage, which had a lot of drizzle days, I didn't get back into Anchor Town for over 11 weeks straight. I was actually wondering whether or not the pickup would start yesterday. I use four wheeler ATVs to get around when I'm out there. On my way in yesterday I stopped by the Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge near Copper Center. Excellent lunch. When there I was chatting with a number of the staff, who are going on a South Pacific cruise on the Emerald this winter. Some cruisers staying there, who are getting on the Island Princess in a day or so and heading south, overheard this, so they asked me if I was a local, I said yes but I do live in Anchorage. More important though, I said I'm a hard core long time Princess cruiser. Which impressed them, particularly when I said we are boarding the Pacific Princess in mid January for 50 days sailing. I do receive the internet out there but it is very slow, so I don't post much. But right now, getting back to civilization feels real good. Lord willing and the creek don't rise we will be embarking at L.A. in 4.5 months. I'm more anxious than ever to get back on the seas.

Welcome back Kennicott! Nice to see you here.

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Love em. I think the older you get and the more you have cruised the lot more likely it is that you like sea days. During all our days on the sea we have had very few where the sailing was "rough", maybe half a dozen or so out of 600. The cruise lines go out of their way, literally, to avoid an inconvenience for guests. And having them barfing all the time is one big no-no. The most sea days in a row we have experienced was crossing the pond one time, eight days. But that wasn't scheduled as we missed a port due a guest who broke her leg and then we had to divert and slow down due to a storm.

Thanks for the great responses everyone. The most I've done are 2 straight sea days. The second one was unplanned due to weather cancelling a port stop. I confess I was a bit bored on that second day. But that was all on me since I didn't go and trying new things. Princess cruises seems to do a good job with having plenty of sea day activities. Just have to get out there and participate.

I've been on 2 Journeys cruise both had 2 sea days before our first port and 3 after leaving our last POC and docking at the home port. I can say, my mother and I did not find them boring even though on both cruises the weather was not very supportive of being on the Lido deck for at least 3 out of the 5 sea days.

On both cruises the Pride 14 day March 2016 and the Vista 11 day in Nov. 2016 had excellent roll calls that work themselves across several forums and social media sites without bias as to whom was a member of which website. The various groups work together by allowing those of us that post in multiple places to relay information about an event or gathering that another page organized. Some of the things that crossed over from one platform to another for participants was the Bar/Pub poker crawl, daily sea day slot pulls, informal meet-n-greets, and on one of the cruises a sock-hop in the dance club.

This of course was on top of the extra activities that were worked in by the cruise line beyond the normal week long activities. Some interesting things they had were enrichment classes, covering thing like taking better digital pictures, astro-navigation, and using social media to the fullest are the ones I remember (there were 7-8 all together). These were not sales pitches like the Fun ashore and the Shopping seminar, but were "taught" by special lecturers with real life experience beyond the cruise line. Other events that they normally hold only 2 or even 3 times each cruise, like the adult arts & crafts and cooking demonstrations, were done daily with different projects or themes. There were also the full range of special entertainers as well, the juggler, the acapella group, the hypnotist, a magic show, plus extra musical acts for more variety in the lounges each evening.

On the transatlantic cruise that I did we had 5 day in a row at sea. I loved it but I was on good ships with lectures and lots of activities (Celebrity Equinox and RCI Adventure Of The Seas) Both time had balcony cabins to enjoy the sea days with breakfast on the balcony.

March 2018 will be (hopefully) doing a 7-day Southern Caribbean with two at sea days each way. Building the wife up. As DVCruise stated -- good weather -- she will be fine, and happy topside in the sun. Bad weather - well, let's just say it will be a tough cruise on my end.

Goal is a Trans-Atlantic with 5-days in a row crossing the Atlantic in late 2019.

We've only had two sea days in a row but I'd like to try 3 or 4. I'd likely lounge on an outside deck all day and read, relax and just enjoy the sea breeze.

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