Transatlantic cruise on the Jewel of the Seas, May 2023
When doing a transatlantic (or most “repositioning”) cruises – you need to love sea days. Which is good, because on this particular crossing there were 9 of them.
What do you do on a sea day, you ask?
I tend to get up between 7 – 7:30 AM (that is just me) so I can take advantage of the very nice gym on board. I do weights followed by a 30+ minute walk around the upper deck.
Unless its super windy or cold, then it’s the dreaded treadmill. This followed by breakfast, shower and off to progressive team trivia (my team came in 5th – 3 ½ points out of tying for 2nd). Followed by name-that-tune trivia of different themes.
Then some poolside reading, lunch, more reading, playing guitar or blogging, more reading, dress for dinner before 5PM trivia, dinner,
evening showtime,
some gambling (some nights this is very short – however long my $20 lasts or doubles up- I doubled up twice and left early 2ce), evening music or karaoke, then bed, and repeat. Most nights we’re back in the room by 10PM, but activities throughout the ship continue well past midnight.
This is my schedule – the guest choir conflicts with progressive trivia (as does pickleball for John), there are classes on napkin folding, family games and game shows, Top Chef competitions, language classes, enrichment lectures. It comes down to your own personal interests. If you get bored, you didn’t explore your options.
And another thing – make sure to read the signs around the ship.
