Route: 22 day voyage: Warnemunde – Tallinn – St Petersburg – Helsinki – Stockholm – Copenhagen – Kristiansand – Bergen – Glasgow – Belfast – Cork – Boston – New York City
1. General Comments: We are regular cruisers, and this trip covered several places on our bucket list. We had the rare situation of sunshine at all stops; temperatures were in the 60s. We were a full ship with some 3,000+ passengers. Passengers were a real international mixture. We were mainly US, but there were large groups of Europeans, Asians, and even travellers all the way from Australia and New Zealand. Ages were from infants to really old folks (ie, older than I).
We had a suite (11th deck) that made for a comfortable cruise. While the ride in the Baltic and North Seas was calm, we did do some rocking and rolling in the north Atlantic. The captain had to route us further south in the Ireland – Boston segment in order to avoid the worst of Tropical Storm Ian. We still felt it, but the effects were much reduced.