Anna Chassereau
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2016
For those who've sailed the eastern on the Fantasy was it rough? Specifically in June if anyone has sailed then...was it more rough than other itineraries you've done?
This! On our Med cruise this summer, it was the smoothest cruise I've ever been on...until the last night, when, like you, we were heading back to Barcelona. Hoo boy, did that shop start rocking!!In 2016 it was fairly rocky because the polar vortex in the US was wreaking havoc on the currents. We barely made it into Castaway (and had we not had Commodore Tom I have my doubts as to if we would).
Bottom line is, you are on the ocean which is always moving, and at any point it could get rough. Summer 2016, I was on RCCL on a 12-night Med cruise. The final night we had to cut directly across the Med to get to Barcelona. The prediction was smooth sailing. Well, at around 2am we ran smack into a random pop-up storm that was in Tropical Storm territory on the Beaufort Scale. I had a bow facing cabin and could hear waves crashing over the bow. And we were rocking. On the usually reported as smooth as glass Med (I later learned it it notorious for these pop up storms). I loved it - the rockier the better so I know I am on the water (I would not cruise if I didn’t) - but a lot of people didn’t.
We happened to do the Eastern route right after the Japanese tsunami and we definitely felt a lot of movement. Crew told us the seas were the roughest they had ever experienced, and even that wasn't enough to impact our enjoyment of the cruise. Unless there's a hurricane or something, it should be pretty smooth.
Forgive me if I'm missing the obvious, but I'm struggling to see how a Japanese tsunami could impact an Eastern Caribbean cruise. One of the Hawaiian or Western US coast cruises, yes. But an Eastern Caribbean?