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In the US Dramamine is used to control seasickness and available 'over the counter' probably the same in your country.
Where are you planning to go?
Plus you are expected to tip everyone.
Bring cash.
If I we're you I'd make it my priority to take a couple of sturdy deep sea fishing rods with you and oh yes don't forget to take spinners for big game fish too. One never knows.
Enjoy.
Outbreak Updates for International Cruise Ships
Outbreak of invasive Escherichia coli gastroenteritis on a cruise ship
Cruise Ship Travel
CDC Yellow Book 2024
Travel by Air, Land & Sea
Tipping on a cruise ship: Everything you need to know
"The extra cost of the automatic gratuity charges can be a shock to first-time cruisers. At some lines, these charges run as high as $25 per day. And, unlike the typical service fee or resort fee found at a land resort, they are not per room. They are per person.
At many big lines, such as Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line, it's not uncommon for a family of four staying in a single cabin to see around $80 a day in service fees added to their bills. On a typical seven-night cruise, that's nearly $600 in fees. And that's before you add in any additional tips you wish to give to your room service or favorite bartender or autogratuities tacked on to bar, restaurant and spa bills."
In the US Dramamine is used to control seasickness and available 'over the counter' probably the same in your country.
Where are you planning to go?
Plus you are expected to tip everyone.
Bring cash.
If I we're you I'd make it my priority to take a couple of sturdy deep sea fishing rods with you and oh yes don't forget to take spinners for big game fish too. One never knows.
Enjoy.
Outbreak Updates for International Cruise Ships
Outbreak of invasive Escherichia coli gastroenteritis on a cruise ship
Cruise Ship Travel
CDC Yellow Book 2024
Travel by Air, Land & Sea
Tipping on a cruise ship: Everything you need to know
"The extra cost of the automatic gratuity charges can be a shock to first-time cruisers. At some lines, these charges run as high as $25 per day. And, unlike the typical service fee or resort fee found at a land resort, they are not per room. They are per person.
At many big lines, such as Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line, it's not uncommon for a family of four staying in a single cabin to see around $80 a day in service fees added to their bills. On a typical seven-night cruise, that's nearly $600 in fees. And that's before you add in any additional tips you wish to give to your room service or favorite bartender or autogratuities tacked on to bar, restaurant and spa bills."
Advice tip. Buy cheap jewelry, rings , necklaces.
Then trade them for the local currency.
I knew this girl who vacationed in Jamaica.
She would buy crap from the Salvation army, clothes, pots so on.
She lived really well for those two weeks just via trading.
Why risk bad service then be forced to tip a shitty wait person for possibly average food.
Those are relatively;y inexpensive.
Book your trip when the weather is good. If it's windy and icy cold, you cannot enjoy relaxing on the deck.
Take your mom. While she's reading a book, you can be looking for a single guy!
win-win
Book your trip when the weather is good. If it's windy and icy cold, you cannot enjoy relaxing on the deck.
Take your mom. While she's reading a book, you can be looking for a single guy!
win-win
That is where shitty doctors go to earn their money.
If she is guy shopping why not a singles cruise? Or an elderly cruise with mom?
Like NO single, or men in bad relationships, go on a cruise with their parent.
Truly majestic and awesome.
Unlike staring at a blank sea waiting for the next tourist trap of a town.
Noting when you are at sea for a week, walking on land requires some adjustment which can take 20 minutes. You be lurching like a drunken sailor (they ain't drunk, just not used to land yet).
I enjoyed the heck out of ocean cruises and will always be grateful to my relatives and parents providing me the experience of them. I saw many lands and observed many things that provided a much better understanding of the world and people.
I have seen flying fish racing our ship, porterhouse man of war just drifting along, pods of whales, Soviet submarines surfacing along side us, cargo being loaded and unloaded by nets, the butterflies of the Panama Canal, Gibraltar, the harbor at Rio De Janeiro, super extreme poverty in several countries, the Pyramids and the Suez Canal, I have lunched in Marseilles and swam at the beach in Cannes, I have ridden the sleds in Majorca and watched the French Foreign Legion march in St. Martinique. I toured the Tower of London. ll of that before I was 15. All of it was because my parents had every year since age 4 booked me on ocean voyages twice a year.
I watched the era of the cruise ship end as jet travel became practical. I totally miss the era of the big cruise ships and tramp steamer ships that accepted passengers on cargo runs.
Paros a backpackers paradise, naxos heavenly beaches with the restaurants practically speaking on it! Insider tips
Or perhaps the Mikhail Lermontov?
Or perhaps the Mikhail Lermontov?
And West Side and Outrageous Fortune and Vegas NZ.
And that cop show., the guy who likes country music.
Literally is there anything left of NZ the world has NOT seen?
Paros a backpackers paradise, naxos heavenly beaches with the restaurants practically speaking on it! Insider tips
Trains and Trucks.
Those were songs.
Hard to write about your shitty life as a barista.
Or perhaps the Mikhail Lermontov?
Paros a backpackers paradise, naxos heavenly beaches with the restaurants practically speaking on it! Insider tips
I'm going with someone in a wheelchair, so the hiking is out. But the beaches and bars are in!
STUPID: French residents support banning people from taking more than 4 flights over their lifetime to stem climate change
A surprising number of French people support the idea of placing a limit on the number of times people can fly in their lifetime in the name of saving the environment, with 41 percent of French citizens overall in favor of banning individuals from taking more than four flights – ever.
This is according to a poll of French residents conducted by the research firm Consumer Science and Analytics Institute. The proposed limit would apply to both business and leisure travel.
Young people in particular seem to be on board with this unusual suggestion, with 59 percent of those aged 18 to 24 in favor of imposing a four-flight lifetime limit.
This sentiment is not just limited to French people. A climate survey conducted by the European Investment Bank in a partnership with market research firm BVA revealed that 62 percent of Europeans were in favor of banning short-distance flights and 59 percent were on board with raising prices on food and other goods that bear a large carbon footprint, such as red meat, food that is transported across long distances and cell phones. By comparison, just 49 percent of Americans supported a ban on short-distance flights.
That survey also found that Europeans were largely in favor of measures that penalize the use of cars, with 67 percent saying that they support having less space to accommodate cars in city centers. Moreover, 72 percent of Europeans were in favor of imposing a carbon tax on traveling by plane and 84 percent supported creating more pedestrian-only zones in downtown areas.
France has already implemented a ban on short-haul flights
In May, France implemented a ban on domestic short-haul flights between locations for which train journeys are available that last less than two hours and 30 minutes. France boasts an extensive high-speed rail network. The ban affects flights between cities such as Paris and Bordeaux, Lyon and Nantes; it does not affect connecting flights.
The country’s transport minister, Clement Beaune, said the move was “an essential step and a strong symbol in the policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” He added that it was a global first.
However, some experts have criticized the move and labeled it more of a symbolic ban. The interim head of Airlines for Europe, Laurent Donceel, said that “banning these trips will only have minimal effects” on carbon dioxide output and called for the government to support better solutions.
The ban was originally intended for flights between cities that could be traveled by train in under four hours. The French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir noted: "On average, the plane emits 77 times more CO2 per passenger than the train on these routes, even though the train is cheaper and the time lost is limited to 40 minutes.” They also wanted safeguards to be put in place to prevent French railways from inflating their prices to take advantage of the new law.
Beaune said that the decree could be expanded when it comes up for renewal. He stated: "The decree is valid for 3 years so we can be more ambitious as we go further, by increasing the time of travel from 2.5 hours to at least 3 hours in the future."
This trend is gaining steam throughout Europe, where many countries are limiting flights in the name of the environment. Spain presented a plan to ban short-haul flights throughout the country in cases where a journey could be made by train in less than 2.5 hours by 2050, which would see the end of flights from Madrid to other cities on the mainland.
Belgium has already introduced a tax of 10 euros on short-haul flights to cities situated within 500 kilometers of Brussels Airport, while Germany recently raised taxes on short-haul flights by 75 percent