After taking a couple years off of cruising during the pandemic, I decided to test the waters (pun intended) with a short Thanksgiving cruise on the Celebrity Millennium to Bimini. My parents had made other plans for the holiday, so it was a perfect excuse to get away and take my first Celebrity cruise. Embarking…
This was my first solo cruise for New Year’s Eve and honestly one of my favorite cruises so far. I didn’t have plans to sail again on the Norwegian Epic so soon after my 2018 cruise out of Barcelona, but I couldn’t pass up this itinerary out of San Juan and celebrate New Year’s Eve…
I have two friends from college with whom I keep in close touch, but with one of us in Europe and the other over 1000 miles away in the US, we don’t all get together very often. In 2019, we decided a trip was in store, so we met up for a long weekend in…
For a brief time in the late 2010s Americans were able to travel by cruise ship to Cuba. My mom had always wanted to go, so I booked my first non-solo cruise to take her on a cruise to Cuba. We left out of Fort Lauderdale two days after Christmas on the Royal Caribbean Majesty…
In 2018, I started a new job that had a week long break over the Fourth of July. I wasted no time after being hired booking my first solo Mediterranean cruise on the Norwegian Epic. I decided on a cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line, due to their Studio cabins and reputation for being good for…
My very first cruise was a three night solo cruise to Nassau on the Carnival Sensation out of Port Canaveral. I had just accepted a new job and had a few days off before starting the new one. I booked only a couple of weeks prior and managed to snag an interior room for a…
