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Topic: Suggestions for cruise itineraries-cruise lines take note!

Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 09-03-2006 02:34 PM

Maybe cruise lines will take note of this post.
If you could make up a cruise itinerary what would it be?
Here is my choice for a great cruise

robably 14-16 days

START:
San Juan, PR
St.Thomas
Casteries
Isla Margarita
Devils Island
Rio de Janeriro
Sao Paulo
Porto Belo
END
Buenos Aires
Add about 5 at sea days for a total of 14.

Maybe one or two of the lesser frequented islands could also fit into the itinerary.
What do you think of this??

Add your itinerary,maybe the cruise lines would consider some of these,at least I hope they would??
Frosty 4

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6263866
First Class Passenger
Member # 5115

posted 09-03-2006 03:34 PM

Hey, if you have ever cruised with RCL, and are a Crown and Anchor member, submit that, there having a 'create your ultamite itenerary' contest, win, and get a free cruise.

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Carlos Fernandez
First Class Passenger
Member # 6432

posted 09-03-2006 05:51 PM

Here's one:

1. Miami
2. Day at Sea
3. Samana Bay, D.R.
4. San Juan P.R.
5. St. Barthelemy
6. Day at Sea
7. Cococay
8. Miami

Good for any 7-night Royal Caribbean ship.

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 09-03-2006 06:40 PM

Southampton - New York berthing at a MANHATTAN pier - preferably with QM2.

A simple, 'classic', nice 12 to 14 day East med. cruise (NOT 'the whole' Med.) starting and ending in Venice with a 'full day' in most ports (inlcuding: Dubrovnik, Athens, Mykonos, Santorini, Istanbul etc.)

More 'crossings' from Europe via Iceland, Greenland ending in a port in the St. Lawrence seaway.(depending on how far the vessel can go)

A canary island cruise STARTING and ENDING at the canary islands.

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Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 09-04-2006 08:16 AM

My personal suggestion:
1. Miami (depart)
2. Day at sea
3. Day at sea
4. Day at sea
5. Day at sea
6. Day at sea
7. Day at sea
8. Miami (arrive)

I'm not fussed about Miami in particular, but it is a convenient place to fly to/from if one is starting in the UK.

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mec1
First Class Passenger
Member # 4287

posted 09-04-2006 10:20 AM

The most intriguing itineraries I have seen for ages are those for Thomson Cruises aboard Calypso next year - Greece, Corinth Canal, Black sea and Albania - really interesting....

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Tim in Fort Lauderdale
First Class Passenger
Member # 953

posted 09-04-2006 10:53 AM

My dream cruise is on the QM2 departing from Brooklyn or Bayonne and sailing to Princess Cays. Oh wait -they already do that! Maybe they can add in HAL's island - Half Moon Cay. YEA!

Tim

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 09-04-2006 10:56 AM

Southampton - Princess Cays (10:00 - 13:00) - Southampton

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 09-04-2006 11:09 AM

ms. Rotterdam.
Rotterdam, Le Havre, Southampton, New York.
New York, Southampton, Le Havre, Rotterdam.

ms. Maasdam/ms. Rijndam.
Rotterdam, Le Havre, Southampton, Montreal.
Montreal, Southampton, Le Havre, Rotterdam.

Greetings Ben

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KenC
First Class Passenger
Member # 6341

posted 09-04-2006 01:08 PM

Southampton, 1 sea day, Lisbon, 1 sea day, Casablanca, 2 sea days, Dakar, 4 sea days, Walvis Bay, 1 sea day, Cape Town - 2 weeks on QM2 heaven!!!

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Pascal
First Class Passenger
Member # 5510

posted 09-04-2006 01:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by KenC:
Southampton, 1 sea day, Lisbon, 1 sea day, Casablanca, 2 sea days, Dakar, 4 sea days, Walvis Bay, 1 sea day, Cape Town - 2 weeks on QM2 heaven!!!

Lisbon-Casablanca can be done easily overnight by QM2 at 30knts (323 nautical miles = 10,75 hrs).

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Jekyll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1878

posted 09-04-2006 03:58 PM

How about SOU - SOU on QE2 - no ports of call...80 days

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 09-04-2006 04:17 PM

A world cruise is probably too difficult - but a Southampton - New York - Southampton cruise without berthing in New York but just turning on the Hudson river would somehow be fun - reminds me of the Zeppelin itineraries.

I wonder whether this would actually make somehow sense - saving money by going slow, avoiding ports and just doing scenery cruising -e.g. in Alaska!

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 09-04-2006 05:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ernst:
I wonder whether this would actually make somehow sense - saving money by going slow, avoiding ports and just doing scenery cruising -e.g. in Alaska!

That sounds fantasic, only scenery cruising Alaska would be great. My ship of choise would be the Rotterdam class ore Zaandam class.

Greetings Ben.

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 09-04-2006 05:22 PM

Now we all know that the cruise lines make a 'some' money with shore excursions - and it is probably difficult to compensate that with what the passengers spend aboard while at sea - but avoiding the shopping malls in Alaska is not necessarily a disadvantage for me.

Something like that has BTW been done in the Antarctica when the first large ships went there.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 09-04-2006 07:04 PM

QM2 - Southampton to NY in FIVE nights, for old times sake.

[ 09-05-2006: Message edited by: Malcolm @ cruisepage ]

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Pascal
First Class Passenger
Member # 5510

posted 09-04-2006 08:31 PM

What about a 7 nights Indian Ocean cruise :

Day 1: Réunion Island (France) (embarkation)
Day 2: Tamatave (Madagascar)
Day 3: Saint Mary Island (Madagascar)
Day 4: Diego Suarez (Madagascar)
Day 5: Alphonse Island (Seychelles)
Day 6: at sea
Day 7: Port-Louis (Mauritius)
Day 8: Réunion Island (France) (disembarkation)

Itinerary possible at 23/24knts. Tamatave,Diego Suarez and Alphonse Island would be half day calls, the other full day stays (because of the time required to reach the next port). Authorization of Seychelles government required for Alphonse, but I'm sure an agreement can be found if enough environmental guaranties are given.

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KenC
First Class Passenger
Member # 6341

posted 09-05-2006 12:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Pascal:
Lisbon-Casablanca can be done easily overnight by QM2 at 30knts (323 nautical miles = 10,75 hrs).

why the rush????

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greybeard
First Class Passenger
Member # 5284

posted 09-05-2006 01:04 PM

A dream round-the-world itinerary, which does not even go all the way around the world (I've saved some ports for the next time) , and with some ports of call that are not even feasible at the moment.

Southamptom
Kiel Canal
Tallinn
St Petersburg
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Oslo
Bergen
Geiranger
More fjords
Tromso
Ny Alesund
Iceland
Faeroes
Belfast
Dublin
Cobh
Falmouth
St Peter Port
Brest
La Coruna
Lisbon
Azores
Cape Verde Isles
Rio de Janeiro
Ushuaia
Port Stanley
Antarctica
New Zealand fjords
Christchurch
Wellington
Auckland
Sydney
Cairns
Kota Kinabalu
Singapore
Bangkok
Saigon
Halong Bay
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Galapagos
Skagway
Ketchikan
Vancouver
Seattle
San Francisco
Catalina Island
San Diego
Panama Canal
Caribbean (various) for a week
Bermuda
Azores
Las Palmas
Walvis Bay
Capetown
Reunion
Mauritius
Seychelles
Red Sea (for Petra)
Suez Canal (plus Cairo)
Ashdod (for Jerusalem)
Beirut
Marmaris
Rhodes
Istanbul
Mykonos
Dubrovnik
Venice
Palermo
Cagliari
Villefranche
Mahon
Barcelona
Malaga
. . . and back to Southampton, where my limousine would be waiting.

Now which ship? that's another question altogether

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Pascal
First Class Passenger
Member # 5510

posted 09-05-2006 01:29 PM

Many many calls in this cruise. Many more than in a "standard" world cruise. It would take at least 5 or 6 months. Perhaps a bit long to find enough people to fill the ship.

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 09-05-2006 01:43 PM

I am not so sure - a more 'detailed' less 'rushed' world cruise might appeal to enough passengers to fill a 'small' luxury vessel.

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 09-05-2006 03:27 PM

WOW! Greybeards cruise!! Figure a weight gain of 1 pound/day(You do the metric conversion) and we did not see how many sea days. 6 months seems about right. Cost?? $ 75K/person estimated. On QM2 right??
F4

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 09-05-2006 03:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Pascal:
Perhaps a bit long to find enough people to fill the ship.

I doubt if Greybeard would want to share his cruise with other people!

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Pascal
First Class Passenger
Member # 5510

posted 09-05-2006 03:53 PM

Doesn't the World already doing quite extensive and long world tours. Of course it requires buying an appartement...

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 09-05-2006 04:05 PM

You forgot Dingwall & Lerwick, Greybeard. With such a grand itinerary I would make a stipulation that any Caribbean port of call was one that was never visited on a milk-round. Between the Seychelles and Red Rea, Salalah, Muscat, somewhere in the UAE, Bahrein, Kuwait & Kish Island are all worth visiting, Jeddah is also interesting. Haifa & Syria too in there, plus an around the Black Sea.

There are actually so many places on this earth that I long to visit or return to, that even if I chartered a personal cruise ship for a couple of years, I doubt I would manage them all I would start of hopping Africa, then the Arabian Peninsula, then round India, Malaysia, up through all countries to Korea, then down the Islands to Indonesia and on to Aus then NZ, followed by a circumnav of S America, in Galapagas, Falklands, S Georgia, Christmas Island... just too many to contemplate thinking about!

PAm

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