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From: Warren on 19 Feb 2010 11:58
On Feb 19, 6:36 am, STAR <gothamcit...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>   Time/money is not a
> factor for the length of the trip, for me it's just wanting a smooth
> ride as much as one can expect.  

The roughest seas I've encountered on a caribbean cruise have been on
sailings
that departed from San Juan or Florida. Some of the smoothest have
been
out of New York Harbor.

There are no guarantees.

Warren
From: Warren on 19 Feb 2010 12:05
On Feb 18, 1:51 pm, STAR <gothamcit...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>Are there any reasons (except that it would extend the journey) not to leave from NY.  

Lots of advantages have been listed but I can't emphasize enough about
the advantage of not having
to worry about the weight of your luggage. You also miss the push-and-
shove that's now common while boarding
a plane with a hundred or two passengers trying to jam bags in to the
overhead that would have been checked
in the past.

And don't get me started about the ever shrinking legroom as airlines
cram extra rows of seats in to their planes.

Warren
From: Tom K on 19 Feb 2010 15:16
On 2/19/10 9:36 AM, Sue Mullen wrote:
>
>
> STAR wrote:
>
>> My only real concern is the possibility of the "rough
>> seas". NOT a fan of this potential problem.
>
> You can never tell if the seas will be very rough or as smooth as glass.
> We have cruised out of the NY area at least 6 times and have had some
> very rough seas and at least one sailing that was very smooth. There is
> no way of telling way ahead of time what you will have when sailing the
> Atlantic Ocean.
>
> sue

I assume that the ship they are considering is the Explorer, which is a
Voyager class ship. FWIW, I think they (Voyager class) have an
extremely stable hull. Not in the QM2 league, but I'd put Voyager class
way up near the top of the list in terms of being able to handle rough
seas.

--Tom

From: Sue Mullen on 19 Feb 2010 16:34


Tom K wrote:
> On 2/19/10 9:36 AM, Sue Mullen wrote:
>>
>>
>> STAR wrote:
>>
>>> My only real concern is the possibility of the "rough
>>> seas". NOT a fan of this potential problem.
>>
>> You can never tell if the seas will be very rough or as smooth as glass.
>> We have cruised out of the NY area at least 6 times and have had some
>> very rough seas and at least one sailing that was very smooth. There is
>> no way of telling way ahead of time what you will have when sailing the
>> Atlantic Ocean.
>>
>> sue
>
> I assume that the ship they are considering is the Explorer, which is a
> Voyager class ship. FWIW, I think they (Voyager class) have an
> extremely stable hull. Not in the QM2 league, but I'd put Voyager class
> way up near the top of the list in terms of being able to handle rough
> seas.

Tom, there are other ships that do Southern Caribbean cruises out of the
NY area. I have a feeling she is talking about something out of
Manhattan, not Bayonne, but I could be wrong.

sue
From: Surfer E2468 on 19 Feb 2010 16:48
TOM:
Glad to hear what you said about voyager ships,we are taking the
"EXPLORER' out of bayonne in 2 weeks,we did a transatlantic on granduer
and had a couple very rough days to start out with. I always carry
mechlizine with me ( aka bonine,but much cheaper)





cruise lover(~~~~~)






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