We booked our first (of many, hopefully) "bucket list" cruise with next cruise when we were on Adventure last week. Eastbound (Los Angeles - New Orleans) on the Brilliance in a GS leaving September '24. The next cruise agent was very surprised this cruise was open and said he thought it opened either that day or the day before... bonus for us, we got a great price! I just looked a bit ago and there were only 5 GS left and had already gone up about $650/pp, again yay us!!
This will be our retirement celebration trip, we have been very blessed and have been able to truly retire at 52 and 54. We will be 54 and 55 for the cruise.
That being said, we have some questions about it and a 14 day cruise in general:
What is the typical demographic on this cruise? We assume it will be an "older" crowd with limited kids, not that it matters... we are very good at chameleon-ing into any group / environment.
Is this going to be a big mindset change from our normal 7 day cruises? We don't think we will, but we are a bit nervous about becoming bored or getting cabin fever. Mind you, we are the kind of couple that are just as happy staying on board during a port as we are going outside. Oh, we love sea days too... looks like that's a good thing on this trip.
Packing... so many questions On a 14 day or longer is there an option for laundry service? Just take light, sink/tub washable items?
Do we run a chance of becoming "food numb" from the same, same again and again or do they try and change the menus up on a longer cruise?
So many questions... I am sure we will have more as time goes by. Sooooo excited, and soooo far away But in the interim we have two star class adventures to come on Allure and Harmony so we probably won't go insane waiting lol.
We read @twangster live blog and got some good info / tips, unfortunately none of the pics are there anymore so we think we lost some context.
Thanks in advance for any tips, tricks, ideas, etc.