Cruising at Christmas

Are you planning to spend ‘The most wonderful time of the year’ on a cruise this year?

Cruising really is the most ideal way to holiday over the festive season, whether your cruising in warmer or colder climates the idea of spending Christmas away from home, away from the busy shopping centres and all that cooking and washing up you need to think of doing you can now spend your time relaxing on a ship, letting someone else do all that cooking for you! The ships really do like to make a fuss of the festive celebrations and you will find the cruise ships are decorated and have their Christmas tree’s all set up normally from around late November.

I sailed on-board the Allure of the seas early December 2014 and the Christmas tree was spectacular! Situated along the Royal Promenade and attracting lots of attention from the 1000s of cruisers wanting to take photos of themselves next to the huge tree!

If you are onboard for Christmas day , you will find that Santa Claus himself might make an appearance around your ship! And you can expect a traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings in the main dining rooms onboard

During the evenings you will find parties galore, and if you are lucky enough to be sailing over New Year’s eve you can expect to attend the part of year and many ships if able will let of fireworks and make the evening really special for the customers onboard!

One of the best ports of call for fireworks over new year’s eve is Madeira, the island really does put on a fantastic fireworks show and cruise ships flock to the island to try and get the best place to ‘park up’ for the celebrations!

Some passengers even like to take their own decorations and mini Christmas trees for their cabins, this has been known to happy very often!

Are you cruising this Christmas?