We did a 10 day Fll-London on the Royal Princess, about 1200 passengers in size, no ports. It was a fairly nothern route, we could see Bermuda.

This was in June, and it was hot hot hot out of FLL,
but the last two days were much cooler, the last day was fairly foggy.

It was smooth as glass. We heard that the return trip just after Labor Day was quite rough. Remember, hurricanes are most likely in Aug, Sept, and early Oct. They caught the tail end of one.

Even though it wsa 10 days, we had to turn our clocks one hour earlier every other day -- I still say Princess owes me 10 hours of cruising -- the 5 hours I lost going over, and gaining the 5 hours the other direction.

We thought it was heavenly. I did a lot of reading, sleeping, and cross stitching. Bob went to a lot of movies.

I kind of have my eye on next Nov Funchal-FLL on RSSC. It gets back Nov 20, which is just before Thanksgiving, and that might be a bit iffy for employee standby, so we might just buy tickets. It's a Southern crossing, so should be reasonably warm.

We really love sea days. One of my complaints about Seabourn and Sea Dream are they are too port intensive. And another reason why I'm not ready for a Greek Isle cruise -- too many ports in such a short time. I would love to spend 2-4 days on some of the islands.

5,000 years of history can't be viewed in 8 hours.

Frances