2015 sail dates?

[jlbf06]

Am I the only one waiting for sunshine? I'd love to cruise from Dover but preferably in the direction of warmer climes

 

[DahliaRW]

Can't think off the top of my head, but after Alaska I realized I needed a good distant one. It's a Toss up between two 70-300. Ones white and ones black, both are USM and get similar reviews. Both are $700 each. Ugh!! 70D JEALOUS!!!

There are several places online you can rent lenses from, for a very reasonable rate. You may want to just rent one for the trip (or beforehand) and make sure you like it.

I just got a new (expensive) lens for Christmas this year to take on our past cruise. It was great, but now I want an even nicer one, oooops! I'll probably rent if we do do Europe in 2015, just due to cost...

 

[NancyIL]

I would love it if one of the 12-nights would look like this:

Dover, England
Sea
Bergen, Norway
Alesund, Norway
Geiranger, Norway
At Sea
Klaksvik, Faroe Islands
At Sea
Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland
At Sea
At Sea
Dover, England

which is what RCL is doing on Brilliance this year.

If it were me, I'd just book the RCI cruise! I sailed to Norway on Brilliance of the Seas in 2012, and RCI's Radiance-class ships are my favorite.

 

[NancyIL]

Am I the only one waiting for sunshine? I'd love to cruise from Dover but preferably in the direction of warmer climes

I prefer to vacation in cooler climates when it's hot at home (i.e., Alaska, Canada, northern Europe) and to warmer places when it's cold at home. I just returned from Australia and New Zealand, and I missed a month-and-a half of winter in Illinois!

 

[Silstone]

There are several places online you can rent lenses from, for a very reasonable rate. You may want to just rent one for the trip (or beforehand) and make sure you like it. I just got a new (expensive) lens for Christmas this year to take on our past cruise. It was great, but now I want an even nicer one, oooops! I'll probably rent if we do do Europe in 2015, just due to cost...

That's an option, I would be nervous the whole time with a "rental" need to research one great lens and stick with it. The 15-85 usm I have now is my go to lens.

 

[emilyann415]

I prefer to vacation in cooler climates when it's hot at home (i.e., Alaska, Canada, northern Europe) and to warmer places when it's cold at home. I just returned from Australia and New Zealand, and I missed a month-and-a half of winter in Illinois!

If Illinois is anything like IA this year Nancy, you only have 2 more months of winter left

 

[sweetlovin']

I prefer to vacation in cooler climates when it's hot at home (i.e., Alaska, Canada, northern Europe) and to warmer places when it's cold at home. I just returned from Australia and New Zealand, and I missed a month-and-a half of winter in Illinois!

New Zealand is one of my favorite countries. Did you visit north or south island?

 

[LeslieG]

Does anyone want to venture a guess when the Panama Canal cruises will be next year?

 

[jlbf06]

I prefer to vacation in cooler climates when it's hot at home (i.e., Alaska, Canada, northern Europe) and to warmer places when it's cold at home. I just returned from Australia and New Zealand, and I missed a month-and-a half of winter in Illinois!

Love your strategy! Living in Wales it's mostly cold and rainy, so it's lovely to see the sun shine!

 

[booger73]

So here's the Iceland port schedule from a variety of dates:

http://cruiseiceland.com/iceland-cruise-port-calendar/?v=0&f=21.06.2015&t=17.07.2015

The most important ones would be:

Akureyri 04.07.2015 08:00 04.07.2015 17:00 9 83.338 2834 294

Reykjavik 05.07.2015 12:00 06.07.2015 17:00 29 83.338 2834 294

No other ship in the world weights 83.338 other than the Magic, which happens to also be 294m long
See here: ( http://www.shipcruise.org/cruise-ship-sizes-comparison-dimensions-length-weight-draft/ )

Departing Reykjavik on 7/6 5pm allows ample time to get to England on 7/10

(Celebrity cruises eclipse does the Southampton, England Day 1 4:30pm, 2 days at sea, and arrival Day 4 in Reykjavik at 1pm in reverse)

SO here's the Repo guess (12 night)
6/24 Gerainger ( http://www.stranda-hamnevesen.no/GeirangerfjordenCPGD2015 ) already on port calendar from previous cruise:

6/27 back in Copenhagen (end of last cruise/start of repo)
6/28 Oslo
6/29 Kristiansand
6/30 Bergen
7/1 Flam
7/2 Gerainger
7/3 At sea
7/4 Akureyri (this we know)
7/5 Rejkjavik (this we know)
7/6 At sea
7/8 Lerwick, Scotland (?!) - unfortunately not on port schedule yet
7/9 At sea
7/10 Dover (this we know)

Compare to 14d repo celebrity infinity's Icelandic and Fjord cruise, it can be done! (https://booking.celebritycruises.co...&type=co&brand=CEL&cur=GBP&country=GB&ship=ec)

How about them apples eh?
Tell ya what, if it's anything close to that, count me as SOLD!!

 

[Cousin Orville]

So here's the Iceland port schedule from a variety of dates:

http://cruiseiceland.com/iceland-cruise-port-calendar/?v=0&f=21.06.2015&t=17.07.2015

The most important ones would be:

Akureyri 04.07.2015 08:00 04.07.2015 17:00 9 83.338 2834 294

Reykjavik 05.07.2015 12:00 06.07.2015 17:00 29 83.338 2834 294

No other ship in the world weights 83.338 other than the Magic, which happens to also be 294m long
See here: ( http://www.shipcruise.org/cruise-ship-sizes-comparison-dimensions-length-weight-draft/ )

Departing Reykjavik on 7/6 5pm allows ample time to get to England on 7/10

(Celebrity cruises eclipse does the Southampton, England Day 1 4:30pm, 2 days at sea, and arrival Day 4 in Reykjavik at 1pm in reverse)

SO here's the Repo guess
6/24 Gerainger ( http://www.stranda-hamnevesen.no/GeirangerfjordenCPGD2015 ) already on port calendar from previous cruise:

6/27 back in Copenhagen (end of last cruise/start of repo)
6/28 Oslo
6/29 Kristiansand
6/30 Bergen
7/1 Flam
7/2 Gerainger
7/3 At sea
7/4 Akureyri (this we know)
7/5 Rejkjavik (this we know)
7/6 At sea
7/8 Lerwick, Scotland (?!) - unfortunately not on port schedule yet
7/9 At sea
7/10 Dover (this we know)

How about them apples eh?
Tell ya what, if it's anything close to that, count me as SOLD!!

I like your thinking... but Gerainger isn't listed after the 24th. Since they had listed the 2 dates in June, I would think any late June or early July dates would also have be listed. Nevertheless, if it is a longer cruise that includes Norway and Iceland, count me in.

 

[JoyB-UK]

So here's the Iceland port schedule from a variety of dates:

http://cruiseiceland.com/iceland-cruise-port-calendar/?v=0&f=21.06.2015&t=17.07.2015

The most important ones would be:

Akureyri 04.07.2015 08:00 04.07.2015 17:00 9 83.338 2834 294

Reykjavik 05.07.2015 12:00 06.07.2015 17:00 29 83.338 2834 294

No other ship in the world weights 83.338 other than the Magic, which happens to also be 294m long
See here: ( http://www.shipcruise.org/cruise-ship-sizes-comparison-dimensions-length-weight-draft/ )

Departing Reykjavik on 7/6 5pm allows ample time to get to England on 7/10

(Celebrity cruises eclipse does the Southampton, England Day 1 4:30pm, 2 days at sea, and arrival Day 4 in Reykjavik at 1pm in reverse)

SO here's the Repo guess (12 night)
6/24 Gerainger ( http://www.stranda-hamnevesen.no/GeirangerfjordenCPGD2015 ) already on port calendar from previous cruise:

6/27 back in Copenhagen (end of last cruise/start of repo)
6/28 Oslo
6/29 Kristiansand
6/30 Bergen
7/1 Flam
7/2 Gerainger
7/3 At sea
7/4 Akureyri (this we know)
7/5 Rejkjavik (this we know)
7/6 At sea
7/8 Lerwick, Scotland (?!) - unfortunately not on port schedule yet
7/9 At sea
7/10 Dover (this we know)

Compare to 14d repo celebrity infinity's Icelandic and Fjord cruise, it can be done! (https://booking.celebritycruises.co...&type=co&brand=CEL&cur=GBP&country=GB&ship=ec)

How about them apples eh?
Tell ya what, if it's anything close to that, count me as SOLD!!

You missed 7/7/15. I think it will be 12 nights from the 28th.
Geiranger didn't have the Magic listed then so I would cross that off.
Reykjavik is overnight, it doesn't leave until 5 pm on the 6th. So you would need an extra sea day after that.
Faroe Islands seem likely as all other cruise lines call there on this route.
I too would settle for anything like this.

 

[booger73]

Geiranger didn't have the Magic listed then so I would cross that off.
Reykjavik is overnight, it doesn't leave until 5 pm on the 6th. So you would need an extra sea day after that.
Faroe Islands seem likely as all other cruise lines call there on this route.
I too would settle for anything like this.

You're both right on the no Gerainger on the 24th. Certainly it could skip - and go Copenhagen (start) /Oslo/ (any of the following)

Kristiansand/Stavanger/Berger/Flam/Skjolden/Alseund/Molde/Trondheim)

[RCI's adventure of the seas does some of these and so does NCL's Norweigan Star, which has a few 12-14 days very similar to what the Magic could do]

Then sea day to Iceland.. then Dover..

I think I like it

 

[booger73]

I"ll tweak the schedule and do something like this

6/27 back in Copenhagen (end of last cruise/start of repo)
6/28 Oslo
6/29 Kristiansand
6/30 Bergen
7/1 Flam
7/2 Alesund (since no Gerainger
7/3 At sea
7/4 Akureyri (this we know)
7/5 Rejkjavik (this we know)
7/6 Leave Rejkjavik 5pm -
7/7 Sea Day (oops - left this out earlier)
7/8 Lerwick, Scotland or Thorshavn (Faroe Islands)
7/9 Sea Day
7/10 Dover (this we know)

Still fun, either way!

 

[Cousin Orville]

Gerainger seems like an odd one to skip if they're doing a Fjord cruise combined with Iceland. As much as I'd love to see Iceland, Gerainger seems to be the highlight of fjord cruises.

 

[Minniemiss]

We watched "A Norway Passage" on PBS, http://www.hurtigruten.us/anorwaypassage/ We will be checking into this cruise line. http://www.cruisenorway.com/hurtigruten-norwegian-fjord-itinerary/?gclid=CKi-h7Wj97wCFaE7OgodSyAAYQ

 

[JoyB-UK]

I"ll tweak the schedule and do something like this

6/27 back in Copenhagen (end of last cruise/start of repo)
6/28 Oslo
6/29 Kristiansand
6/30 Bergen
7/1 Flam
7/2 Alesund (since no Gerainger
7/3 At sea
7/4 Akureyri (this we know)
7/5 Rejkjavik (this we know)
7/6 Leave Rejkjavik 5pm -
7/8 Sea Day (no time to stop anymore in Scotland)
7/9 Sea Day
7/10 Dover (this we know)

Still fun, either way!

You are still missing 7/7. So if it's 12 nights it leaves 28th.

 

[booger73]

I saw.. I corrected it earlier in the other post

6/27 back in Copenhagen (end of last cruise/start of repo)
6/28 Oslo
6/29 Kristiansand
6/30 Bergen
7/1 Flam
7/2 Alesund (since no Gerainger)
7/3 At sea
7/4 Akureyri (this we know)
7/5 Rejkjavik (this we know)
7/6 Leave Rejkjavik 5pm -
7/7 Sea Day
7/8 Now time to stop in Lerwick, Scotland or Torshavn (Faroe Islands)
7/9 Sea Day
7/10 Dover (this we know)

Who knows, truly.. either way, it's fun to speculate

Fill in the blank where you want to go... Copenhagen, (blank), Iceland, (blank), Dover.. has to be something.. either way, I think we're going no matter what 'blank' is

 

[JimmyJackJunior]

While we are at repositioning cruises.

August 3rd Dover, England(known)
August 4th At Sea
August 5th Vigo, Spain
August 6th Lison, Portugal
August 7th Cadiz, Spain
August 8th Gibraltar, UK
August 9th At Sea
August 10th Barcelona, Spain

Then a five day cruise to make the Civit. schedule work.

August 11th Villefranche, France
August 12th La Spezia, Italy
August 13th Rome, Italy(known)
August 14th At Sea
August 15th Barcelona, Spain(would need to be back to make Rome again on the 18th-known)

 

[DahliaRW]

We watched "A Norway Passage" on PBS, http://www.hurtigruten.us/anorwaypassage/ We will be checking into this cruise line. http://www.cruisenorway.com/hurtigruten-norwegian-fjord-itinerary/?gclid=CKi-h7Wj97wCFaE7OgodSyAAYQ

My in-laws did a Norway cruise a few years back on that line. They LOVED it. Though they told us to wait to do it until we didn't have kids along.