When it gets closer and closer for you to go on your cruise, What do you look forward to or get excited about the most when you think about your cruise?

Hi "P"

I've been on 19 cruises and soon to be 20...and as each one gets closer to the sailing day, I start to get excited just knowing I'm on a ship and sailing the seas....there are times I get to the airport 5 hours before the plane leaves, just to make sure I get there....Minnesota winters can be brutal....There is never a bad cruise, some are just better than others...Happy cruising and enjoy the excitement...

Bob E

Well I can tell you this:
The night before my cruise I always, around 9:30 pm after paking the last of my luggage, I go out to my backyard and smoke my last cigarrette on Puerto Rico looking to that beautiful tropical night knowing that tomorrow I will see a new night, with new stars and that great view that I can only see from a cruise ship on the open ocean. I never get nervous, just excited about it just knowing that the next day will be the start of a great vacation.

In about 2 weeks I'll be on my 44th Royal Caribbean cruise. It's the same exciting feeling that I had before my last cruise, and the cruise before that, and before that...! It's just knowing that I'm going to be pampered, eating great food, seeing fantastic shows; visiting different ports, and meeting new friends—and knowing that I'm going to my happy place again!


Sonny

It's still a month out, for only a 3 day cruise, and I'm as giddy as I was on my first cruise. When pulling up to the dock, you lay your eyes on your ship, take in her size and beauty. I can't wait to step on board, explore the ship, smell the salt air and wait to see the lines being pulled in. Waving to the people on shore as we sail by. Of course, everyone's favorite--the Muster drill!

I look forward to just getting away and being on the open Ocean. This coming cruise will only be my 2nd and I am just as excited as I was about my first and this time instead of just 5 of us it will be 20 of us only because we came back and told the family how great it was. I love the prepping for the cruise.

As soon as we've booked a cruise, I feel like a kid at Christmas. Counting down the days, researching the ports and organizing my stuff, until it is time to go. It's a good thing we seldom book more than 3 months ahead; I don't think I could stand it. But as soon as I'm home, I start looking for the next cruise.

I don't get really excited until I receive my cruise docs. Then the night before we leave, we are like kids on Christmas Eve. We usually wait to sleep on the airplane.

I remember when we received the docs for our first cruise. It was in early November 1992 and we were booked on the Thanksgiving cruise of the previous Westerdam. We pulled in the driveway and there, sitting next to our front door, was the Fedex package. It was a breathless moment as we read through everything - it was as if we had booked passage on some exotic voyage like you see in old movies. It was intoxicating.

Funny, but just after a book a cruise I get a little down because I enjoy researching and finding that "deal". As it gets closer my excitement starts building again and when we board that plane to head to Florida.....I'm pumped. As many have said....just like the first one. every cruise brings new and thrilling things along with meeting some great people. Wow, all of a sudden I'm excited! LOL

I have been on a daily countdown since 99 days. I like the cruise countdown that Royal Caribbean has. I even posted a number flip-board thing on my cubicle at work. My coworkers even change the date for me if I am not there (12 days as of Tuesday)!!!!!

I can beat that! I started a daily countdown when it was 250 days! Everyday, I would count how many days was left, and then figure out what percentage of days I had left (from the 250). Then I would count down how many hours left. I would also figure out how many meals I had left until the first one on the ship, etc. My counting went on and on. My family says I have a counting gene. lol

MamaofEnS

My cousin and I go on them together, and we are quite young (i guess). I am 24 and he is 20. He turns 21 in March 2009, so I am taking him on a Transatlantic with a balcony for his birthday in April. I am gonna buy one of those LED sign things and hang it up.

Best part is, my Bosses Boss loves boats/cruising; so he approved a 16 day vacation for me. I get 33 days next year so I am soooo EXCITED.!!!!

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Originally posted by MrsB:
I don't get really excited until I receive my cruise docs. Then the night before we leave, we are like kids on Christmas Eve. We usually wait to sleep on the airplane.

I understand that because I am the same way I can't sleep the night before I am to excited but I to fall asleep on the plane. I am looking at the calendar everyday even now and we leave May 4th.

When we book the cruise, I am excited. When we get the cruise docs, I am ecstatic. That last month I start losing sleep because the anticipation is out of control. When we arrive at the port and see our beautiful ship, the feeling is absolute elation. We get to our cabin and my husband and I both have tears in our eyes because we are so happy and another dream cruise is about to begin.

This may sound melodramatic, but it happens with each cruise!

Nadine

The following excerpt from one of my cruise journals says it all. I wrote this as we were pulling up to Celebrity Infinity in 2006, yet it applies to any ship:

"No matter how many times I have cruised, the wondrous sight of my ship as we approach the embarkation pier never fades. The excitement of seeing the shiny ships with their proud funnels, knowing that that one special ship will soon be my home for the coming week remains my favorite part of the cruise experience."

Just before my cruise, I get excited and look forward to the most about the new sights and senses that I will expierience during the cruise:

• The beautiful views I will see; both from the ship and on the island(s).
• All the wonderful food I will taste on the ship and while ashore
• All the sights and sounds of the entertainment onboard (the music, the shows, the activities)

A close second is all the relaxation and escape I will get from the real world.
A close third would be the new expieriences one gets from traveling to a interesting and different place.
A close fourth would be the excitment one gets while shopping during their cruise.

Those are the those are the things I look forward to or get excited most about just before my cruise.

I look forward to someone else cooking, someone else vacuuming, and someone else making the bed. I look forward to the shower curtain sticking to my posterior. I look forward to hundreds of people using entire memory cards to take pictures of gala desserts. I look forward to the wife complaining of the water color when it first comes on. I look forward to hitting a little rough water and invariably getting asked, "Is the ship moving?" I even look forward to having "one too many" and attempting to do some inebriated version of the electric slide... errr. maybe that was the macarena. I look forward to sooooo many aspects of cruising. So many memories and so many more yet to come.

I look forward to just being away from work and the hussle and bussle of life and just knowing I am going to be on a cruise is enough said.

I get really excited just seeing the boat when we pull into the port. All those Carnival & Royal Caribbean commericals aren't helping either. My daughter & I dance around the room when one of them come on. My husband just rolls his eyes & thinks we're nuts. There is just something about being on a beatiful boat on the glorious water headed to somewhere exotic that really does it for me. Of course with the "Drink of the Day" in my hand & all is well with the world. That & the chocolate melting cake. What more do I need?