April 24, 2010 Ft Lauderdale to Copenhagen 18 days or 28 days

[Host Mike]

We just booked the 28 day version of this cruise from Ft Lauderdale to Copenhagen to Copenhagen.  Anybody else going?

Host Mike with Dear Wife (DW) Jan

[f-mattox]

Boy, I wish!!

[love2cruise]

  We are too!  Only for the first 18 days though.  Lucky you!  I see your on the roll call on the "other" boards too.

[Host Mike]

We are staying one extra day in Copenhagen at the Marriott on points.  I am working on staying at the Renaissance in Ft. Lauderale on points but I'm a little shy of the points I need.  No matter.  DW just got a new Marriott Visa Rewards card which promises 20,000 points within 4 to 6 weeks after first purchase.  Also Marriott Visa (Chase Bank) gave her a free night which must be used within 6 months.     Marriott Rewards says I can combine my points with her points.

Speaking of points, we are now using a Princess Visa card for everything.  It gives a wonderful on board credit reward.  Also I bought a hundred shares of Carnival with also pays a very nice on board credit reward as well.  With all these rewards I'll be able to eat at the Princess specialty restaurants anytime I want.

I found two small books at B&N showing the 10 best things to do in Copenhagen and 10 best things to do in St. Petersburg.  We went ahead an prepaid for the cruise in full to freeze out outstanding Princess airfare quote.  Sunday we are lunching with friends who just returned from their Baltic cruise.   I'll share with you here any important tips I learn from them.

BTW:  Ken and Pat kenandpat@eastlink.ca have put together a great spreadsheet of all of the CC people on this cruise.  Email them for more information.

I'm beginning to work on my blog on this trip.  The Internet URL will be www.grammyjan.com

Princess repo cruises are great.  This year 32 days of cruising.  Next year 30 days.  Life is good.

[Host Mike]

I was told that seeing the summer palace in St. Petersburg is a must.  I read that a high speed train is about to start service between St. Petersburg and Moscow.  Still it's almost four hours to travel one way.

[Tontov]

  My wife and I also booked the 28 day version of this cruise from Ft Lauderdale to Copenhagen to Copenhagen.
                                                     Bob & Joan,from( freezing) Orlando.

[Host Mike]

Would you like to organize the 1st ever Princess Chatter sail away party?

[Host Mike]

4/24/2010 Saturday Ft Lauderdale USA   on to 5
4/25/2010 Sunday At Sea      
4/26/2010 Monday   At Sea      
4/27/2010 Tuesday   At Sea      
4/28/2010 Wednesday At Sea      
4/29/2010 Thursday At Sea      
4/30/2010 Friday Azores Portugal 12 to 6
5/01/2010 Saturday   At Sea      
5/02/2010 Sunday Lisbon Portugal 12 to 6
5/03/2010 Monday Vigo Spain 11 to 5
5/04/2010 Tuesday At Sea       
5/05/2010 Wednesday Dover   England 8 to 8
5/06/2010 Thursday Le Havre France 7 to 7
5/07/2010 Friday Zeebrugge Belgium 8 to 6
5/08/2010 Saturday Rotterdam The Netherlands 7 to 5
5/09/2010 Sunday At Sea      
5/10/2010 Monday Oslo Norway 8 to 5
5/11/2010 Tuesday Gothenburg Sweden 8 to 5
5/12/2010 Wednesday Copenhagen Denmark 5 to 7
5/13/2010 Thursday At Sea      
5/14/2010 Friday Stockholm Sweden 10 to 5
5/15/2010 Saturday Helsinki Finland 10 to 6
5/16/2010 Sunday St Petersburg Russia 6:30 to ?
5/17/2010 Monday St Petersburg Russia ? To 6
5/18/2010 Tuesday Tallinn Estonia 7 to 1
5/19/2010 Wednesday Gdansk Poland   9 to 6
5/20/2010 Thursday At Sea      
5/21/2010 Friday Oslo Norway 7 to 2
5/22/2010 Saturday Copenhagen Denmark 5 to off

[Host Mike]

Princess is now charging about three thousand dollars more per person for a BD on this 28 day cruise than I paid.  Most balconys are wait listed.  My dear wife won't let me offer my tickets on ebay, even if I could.  The moral of this story is if you snooze, you lose.

[Host Mike]

Here is a photo of our Star Princess Captain:

Captain William Kent

[NSWP]

Good one Mike, enjoy.   Gee I hope this one is scheduled also for April 2011, want to do a Transatlantic eastbound after our Star Princess, Santiago to San Francisco cruise, arriving in SF 8 April.  Will leave some beer on board for you Mike.

Capt Kent looks a little British ?

[Host Mike]

Now the question is to go or no go.

[Host Mike]

The answer was go and we had a great cruise.

[obendus]

The answer was go and we had a great cruise.

And apparently a bargain! Well done... it's great to cruise with a deal.