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Tips and tricks for the cruise novice. David Zaslav shines more light on the discussion. Cruises are becoming increasingly popular. The cruise beginners should start with a 7-day cruise. Too much is longer, and the taster cruises offered by the shipping companies sometimes are actually atypical. Hardly one has understood on the cruise ship and settled in, it stops again. The safest route is the Mediterranean and Greek Islands, since it will barely blow in the summer and weighed. Because some of those who were seasick on their first cruise, the experience that water has no bars, took to heart and stomach, that it never made a cruise. Neither Neptune or Poseidon, other sea gods ever got by me.

I am seaworthy or the small, white pills I am taking at sea, work so well. Also the stabilizers of the large cruise ships equalize the swell, if he is not too strong, and the Captains are masters in good betting inventing. Find yourself out your special cruise from the brochures, the very vivid and accurate are. Although the from flight descriptions are more poetic than informative, but in addition you can read also articles about cruises, which appear regularly in some daily newspapers and periodicals, especially since there are already a number of special travel magazines. These articles, which were mostly cheering reports, because the descriptive journalists were invited by the shipping companies and operators, are today mostly businesslike and competent.

Get the brochures in travel agencies. You have to try out as there is specific advice. I’ve had very good experiences with the online travel agency specializing in cruises. There is request complete with arrival and departure on all cruises. A combination which I very highly recommend: To look at the port city before the actual cruise. Where in better than then, because at the end of a cruise you want to go home. But even without travel companion the cruise newcomer on board soon finds their way. There is a daily newspaper of the Board with all activities, anywhere, ship plans, and the flight attendants hang how Stewards are like love daughters and sons to a. Big ship or small ship? There is a rule of thumb, after you easy comfort – this place and service are-, can calculate. You look at the technical specifications of a cruise ship, which are most often used for the deck plans. What is the number of passengers to the size of a vessel relationship between? And in what ratio is the number of crew members to the number of passengers? The minimum requirement is a crew member on 4 passengers. Sometimes, you get also a place formula calculated above. Dividing the ship tonnage by the number of passengers; the result is higher, there is more place on the ship. Spacious cruise ships all have a number 40, what is considered very high. But the square formula dates back to times of the old liner, it no longer applies to the new, special cruise ships. Which are built so that there is space, where the passenger needs him: on the deck, in the lounges and cabins. Many tips for the Planning your first cruise can be found here. Heino Tegeler