Hello, my name anastasia, 38, i'm a chef and a restaurant owner, i traveled with my husband, 52, daughter, 16, and son, 9. Ive spent many hours on this forum researching my cruise vacations and want to save a lot of your time sharing information i have and what i’ve learned on my 06/31-07/07 western cruise.

We’ve been on 36 cruises that are on different lines and it was one of the best cruises!

Pre-cruise: buy anything before your cruise (i recommend to buy when you book your cruise) close dates to sail prices raising, pre-buy your drink packages, spa treatments, speciality restaurants, because they're much more expensive on board! When on board i only see discounts on photos. Also in some bars they have drink of the day which is $6.75 Read more