When I saw this trip advertised at just £654 ($829) per person, I thought this could be the chance I’ve been waiting for to take my family on a cruise. I wasn’t sure how cruising with children would change the way that I do things and I hoped that they would enjoy it as I’m always telling them how great cruises are.
My nieces who are 6 and 13 have cruised twice before but they had rough weather on both their past cruises so my hope for this cruise was that we would have calm seas and a lot of fun. There are so many things to do on Royal Caribbean cruises, things that really have to be seen to be believed.
Before we even embarked the ship we had an email about bad weather. It said that Royal Caribbean had been ‘monitoring some adverse weather along our intended path’ and that we would now be calling at Bergen for our first port stop.
I hope this would mean that we would avoid the bad weather completely but only time would tell. I was nervous that this would be my nieces 3rd rocky sailing.
We embarked the ship in Southampton and it was very easy. We’d already checked in online before arriving so we just had to scan our passports and boarding passes before going through security. Boarding a cruise is very much like going through an airport but generally more relaxed and faster. It took us under 10 minutes to get onto the ship and I can’t imagine getting through an airport that fast.
