anyone know whats the weather like crossing the atlantic during april

[icemaiden]

hi
i would like to hear from anyone who has done the atlantic crossings, any bad experiences, were crossing last week in april after a week cruising the caribbean

PLEASE SAY IT WAS PLAIN SAILING,LOL

[Dorset Cruiser]

Linda - don't worry

We sailed through a force 8 gale in the Tasman Sea and we are still here.  You need a little sea-swell or else you might just as well be in a hotel   Just make sure you have plenty of seasickness tablets - all these wrist bands and patches behind the ears are useless - and, if all else fails, the doctor always has the magic needle

Chris

[Princess Cruiser]

I would bet on one bad day and the rest good days.  Nothing to worry about.   

[Pochahontas]

Stiff upper lip and all that ladies 

And a good few brown bags - plenty of fresh air -    and anti sickness travel pills to pop!

Were gonna have fun! I tell thee!   

[druke]

We've not done an April crossing, but our Mar 98 trans-Atlantic, Buenos Aires to Barcelona was the smoothest we've had, out of a half-dozen.

We're going again in March 08, Miama to Barcelona on Oceania's Regatta, and hoping for smooth seas.

Our roughest was probably Aug 02, Golden Princess, Venice to New York.  We had bow slap spray raining down on our Caribe deck balcony, elevator cars were banging about in their shafts, and several windows along Prom Deck shattered, along with a lot of glass/crockery damage in the shops, bars, and restaurants.

You never know what the ocean will hold in store.

Good luck on your crossing.

[icemaiden]

thanks everyone, i think i will take the advice of sea sickness tablets, and fresh ginger, i wonder if they have ginger beer on the ships , i will just have to buy the ginger capsules in the health shops

linda

[druke]

Icemaiden, I don't recall ever seeing ginger beer on a ship.

[icemaiden]

Icemaiden, I don't recall ever seeing ginger beer on a ship.

thanks Druke
thats weird cause i know quite a few people that take ginger beer i their spirits,

linda