My Upcoming Cruises
Here are the details on all of the cruises I currently have booked
and speculation on what others might get added to the list
My Upcoming Cruises
Here are the details on all of the cruises I currently have booked
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My next cruise will be an Alaska cruise this summer with American Cruise Lines. It has been 11 years since the last time I cruised in Alaska, and I'm really looking forward to getting up there again. The possibilities for shooting great photos and videos are exciting! Also, it's easy for me to get to Alaska now, since I live in the Pacific Northwest.
I got started working with American Cruise Lines in 2021 when I sent them a copy of a video from my drone... of one of their ships on the Columbia River, near where I live. This led to an offer to cruise with them (at their expense) in order to shoot more photos and videos for them. They liked what I did for them, so they sent me on to one of their ships on the Mississippi river. That went well, so they sent me to another ship, and another, and several more after that. So far, I've done nine cruises with American Cruise Lines, all at their expense... and I have the Alaska cruise plus a Florida cruise scheduled with them for 2025.
Later this year I will be on Royal Caribbean's Quantum Of The Seas. I cruised on a sister ship in 2016 and really liked that ship... so, when my friends, Jeff & Michelle, asked if Kellyn and I would like to sail with them on Quantum Of The Seas, it was an easy "yes".
Kellyn and I had such a great cruise on Sun Princess this February that we've decided to cruise on her brand new sister ship, Star Princess, in January of 2026. Our favorite thing about our time on Sun Princess was spending many warm days relaxing at The Sanctuary Club, an un-crowded area that most passengers don't have access to... and this time we figured out how to do it much less expensively than we did it the last time. Incredibly, we'll be saving over two thousand dollars by staying in a Sanctuary mini-suite next time, rather than staying in a Sanctuary Suite like we did this year. The two cabins are the exact same size, share all the same features and perks, with one little exception: the refrigerator in the mini-suite doesn't come stocked with anything, whereas the sanctuary Suite refrigerator does come pre-stocked with drinks. To save a couple of thousand dollars, we can live with that!
Cruises I'd Like To Take
A few cruises I would love to do:
A cruise with Holland America.
That's probably the biggest cruise line that I've never sailed with. I
think I should try it sometime. The reason I've never sailed with Holland
America before is that I view it as a cruise line for old people. Well,
now that I am one, I guess I should give HAL a try.
Any cruise that could get me to
the Caribbean island of Jost Van Dyke. As far as I know, cruise ships
don't stop there... but they do stop at the neighboring island of Tortola,
and from there you can do an excursion over to White Bay on Jost Van Dyke.
The beach at White Bay is one of the best I've ever been to, and we love having
lunch at the Soggy Dollar Bar there at the beach on White Bay. I'll be
keeping my eye out for the right opportunity to get back there sometime!
A cruise in the South Pacific, visiting places like Tahiti and Bora Bora... but not with the Paul Gauguin cruise line. I've looked in to that cruise line, and I just don't think it's for me. To get to Tahiti on a more mainstream cruise line (like Princess, for example) I'd have to do a 30-day roundtrip cruise out of Los Angeles that goes all the way down to Tahiti. Kellyn would never agree to be away from our dog for that long... so, for now, a Tahiti cruise is probably not going to happen. But maybe someday after the dog is no longer with us?
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