Transatlantic review?

[Birdie dog]

Surprisingly, when I search the forum with those two words, I'm not actually finding many Transatlantic Reviews. We're planning on using a place holder to book on in 2020. If you know of a great TR or have written one yourself, please link it below.

 

[Geomom]

Try searching the forum with WBTA and EBTA as well. (West bound transatlantic and East bound transatlantic)
As there are only 2 cruises/year, I'm not surprised. Before our cruise this summer, I had a hard time finding TRs for the Baltic cruises as they only have those 2-3x/year.

 

[GoofyNewfie]

Honestly can't remember if I did one for EBTA 2013. If you get stuck, I'm sure that there's a large number of people ready to jump in on how awesome theirs was. My EBTA 2013 was the beginning of my much preferring to do longer cruises. 3 of 6 cruises are 14 nights and shortly to be 4 of 7. It really depends on the itinerary (which to me seems to be different pretty much every time) but I'd prefer WBTA over EBTA again because of the 4-6 hours of timeshifting. By day 4 of timeshifting, we overslept our character breakfast by 2 hours!

 

[GirlieGirl]

We did the EBTA in 2017 and would do it again in a heartbeat. The time shift was rough so I'd consider at WBTA next time but I was on the ship, enjoying one of the best vacations ever so no complaints from me about the time changes! Our trip took a more southernly path so our weather was perfect - sunny and warm each day. We stopped in the Azores, Portland (Stonehenge), Dover, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

This was the longest cruise we had taken but won't be our last! It was just that good. We were absolutely spoiled by the crew and got to know them over the time onboard.

 

[bobbiwoz]

We did the EBTA in 2017 and would do it again in a heartbeat. The time shift was rough so I'd consider at WBTA next time but I was on the ship, enjoying one of the best vacations ever so no complaints from me about the time changes! Our trip took a more southernly path so our weather was perfect - sunny and warm each day. We stopped in the Azores, Portland (Stonehenge), Dover, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

This was the longest cruise we had taken but won't be our last! It was just that good. We were absolutely spoiled by the crew and got to know them over the time onboard.

We were on this cruise, and our experience was great. We did a two night stop over in Iceland on the way home, and we consider that experience one of our best vacations!
We will be doing the Westbound this September, because we do want to see if that time change is ant easier for us.

 

[GirlieGirl]

We wanted to do the stop over but couldn't make it work. I'd love to hear how it was! We took an extra day in Copenhagen and had a long layover in London flying home but I don't either of those sound as fun as Iceland!
Can't wait to hear the comparison between the EBTA and WBTA!

 

[mmouse37]

We have done 2 TA's. On one we couldn't get to Iceland because there was too much ice in the water!!! They added another stop in Norway instead.

I adored our transatlantic cruises!!!

MJ

 

[ivanp91]

I haven't written a trip report, but I was on the May 2018 EBTA from Miami to Barcelona. Loved it. The additional entertainment was mostly great, and aside from an overcast day departing Miami and a touch of rain in Ponta Delgada the weather was perfect. The only "downside" I can think of was the fact that it was very sea day intensive in the first half, port intensive in the second (but with such an itinerary it is unavoidable). It makes me think that a 7 day cruise isn't even long enough anymore!

 

[braysmommy]

We have done multiple eastbound TA's and loved each one definitely one of our favorite itineraries! If you book one make sure to stay a few nights in Europe before/after cruise. Not sure if you have kids or not but with only a few hundred kids on these cruises typically so kids clubs aren't packed which my DS loves.

 

[Birdie dog]

We have done multiple eastbound TA's and loved each one definitely one of our favorite itineraries! If you book one make sure to stay a few nights in Europe before/after cruise. Not sure if you have kids or not but with only a few hundred kids on these cruises typically so kids clubs aren't packed which my DS loves.

Nope, no kids. We have 5 adults sailing in three rooms and we have a blast wherever we go. We're hoping for a Barcelona itinerary and we'll jump. I've wanted to visit Barcelona anyway and this seems like such a fun option. I'm anxiously waiting the 2020 announcements. I have a place holder burning a hole in my pocket.

 

[Chirple]

Surprisingly, when I search the forum with those two words, I'm not actually finding many Transatlantic Reviews. We're planning on using a place holder to book on in 2020. If you know of a great TR or have written one yourself, please link it below.

Not so much of a review but overall experiences from our cruise meet thread: https://www.disboards.com/threads/9-16-2017-magic-transatlantic-from-barcelona.3522411/page-57.

My post #1123 kicks off pre-stays in Barcelona.

 

[olafLover]

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