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Get around Cruise ships


Get around Cruise ships

The key advantage of a cruise ship is that it does most of the "getting around" for you. See "Understand (above) and the following sections for details about ships and port visits. Basically, you unpack once and then visit the ports on your ship's itinerary...only repacking at the end of cruise. As you explore the ship, you'll note that instead of numbers decks (not floors) may have fanciful names. You may find yourself referring frequently to the maps in the elevator and stairwell areas to figure out whether the Lido Deck is above or below the Promenade Deck. The biggest ships can be 15 or more decks deep (counting bars and whatnot perched above the pools), making even the most conscientious stair-climbers resort to elevators from time to time. Thankfully, elevators will have an outside and inside list of facilities for each deck. But they often do not tell you if any is aft or forward...back to the maps. Only rarely does a ship fail to visit a scheduled port. This most often stems from adverse weather. If such threatens, the captain will avoid the effects of the weather as much as possible, and will make announcements explaining what is happening and if alternate ports will be visited.

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