TransAtlantic WB Fantasy Nov 3-16 2025 - PACKING LIST for 10 Sea Days

[Lesverts]

You can also pay to have your laundry done. I have done neither . . Although have washed a few things in the sink.

This will be my 3rd TransAtlantic. I love the length of the cruise - the sea days are relaxing but some people find them boring. So if you don’t enjoy people watching and getting your photo taken with the characters you may want to rethink all these sea days.

Southampton does have some perks as a departure point - lots of Titanic history and lots of options for finding a reasonable one way flight into London/Gatwick.

There also seems to be a small group of cruisers who do this every year. I could see doing this. Ship isn’t full.

I was speaking to more other lines. I have been on an all sea days DCL with almost 2 weeks of travel before and another 4 days after. The affordable laundry facilities were amazing to have. You can only realistically pack so many clothes. Royal does not have public facilities and it is 34.99 plus gratuity for a bag of laundry. I am going on a 17 night Indian Ocean passage and having to fork out nearly 50 dollars for a bag of laundry compared to like 7 bucks to do it yourself is going to suck.

I want the Barcelona departure especially so I can fly into Madrid and go to Toledo and Cordoba before the cruise.

I absolutely love sea days. Reading, relaxing, drinking far too many lattes and espressos and just enjoying the water go by is my favourite part of being on a cruise.

 

[Girl of the South]

Honestly had no clue that Disney Cruise Line self service laundry was unusual. Only ever cruised DCL with one Royal Caribbean and once on the Crystal Symphony. 17 nights would probably be my max? Had friends who did a 32 night journey on Princess - South America I think.

I love Deck 4 on the classic ships, particularly at night. Feels very 'vintage' to me. I read 6 books on my first TA. It was the "cold" crossing to Canada. This is NOT the TA I took but I love the postcard!