To the Land of Fire and Ice Princess Cruise August 2024- Pre trip

[vampiress88]

Pre trip

Crew 



Me: I’m 36. Married, mum of two girls, part time worker with a holiday obsession, the one who plans and budgets with awesome spreadsheets

Hubby: He’s 36, the annoying one. Who pays for everything and never does any planning.

Scarlett: she will be 10 the day after we get home. She is my smart sensible one. 


Georgia: still 8, she is my crazy funny one.

These are my beautiful girls on Iona at Christmas






The Plan




Going with Princess Cruises on the Caribbean Princess for 16 days in August. School Holidays yay!



Cost us £3496 for two weeks for balcony cabin (kids will be on sofa beds) and includes the food (and drinks such as tea coffee and juice while in the restaurants).

We have $334 obc but no parking. Still this feels like a bargain in the school holidays.
Especially as Scarlett is in the last year of juniors next year so need to be more careful and after next year her being in Comp it’s going to be even harder to have adventures and having to stick to the school holidays.



The itinerary


Tuesday Day 1. Board ship
Wednesday Day 2. Falmouth
Thursday Day 3. Cork
Friday Day 4. At Sea
Saturday Day 5. At Sea

Sunday Day 6. At Sea

Monday Day 7. Quqortoq
Tuesday Day 8. Nanortalik
Wednesday Day 9. At Sea
Thursday Day 10. At Sea
Friday Day 11. Reykjavik
Saturday Day 12. Isafjordur
Sunday Day 13. Akureyri

Monday Day 14. At Sea
Tuesday Day 15. At Sea
Wednesday Day 16. At Sea
Thursday Day 17. Disembark


I have budgeted £700 which is $900 for our drinks and speciality dinning on top of the on board credit and also the dollars left over from our February cruise to the Caribbean so we will have $704 so that’s $100 per day average.

I have also budgeted £700 on shore spending. We won’t get the drinks package as we never use it.

I have already paid £258 for blue lagoon in Reykjavik
Also whale watching for £239 in Akureyri

Still always have my credit cards are back ups and I have more than enough in the bank in case we want to splurge but I’d like to keep it in the bank if I can to pay for my next adventure.

[munmun]

Oh hooray, another trippy. Can't wait!

[disney_l81]

Take your sea sick pills in akureyri on the whale watching and hold on carefully as if they spot a whale they will just do an about turn and we had people fall over and wear something warm. We saw orca as well as humpback whales- hopefully you'll see some whales too.

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by disney_l81

Take your sea sick pills in akureyri on the whale watching and hold on carefully as if they spot a whale they will just do an about turn and we had people fall over and wear something warm. We saw orca as well as humpback whales- hopefully you'll see some whales too.

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Sounds awesome. Just in Ireland with hubby having some pints of beamish.

[Omega1]

We’ll be really interested in your thoughts on the Greenland ports of call. It’s an itinerary we’ve considered several times - having done a couple of cruises around Iceland, it would only be the Greenland bit that would be new. Have a great trip.

[Loulou127]

Originally Posted by Omega1

We’ll be really interested in your thoughts on the Greenland ports of call. It’s an itinerary we’ve considered several times - having done a couple of cruises around Iceland, it would only be the Greenland bit that would be new. Have a great trip.

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Omega, what are your thoughts on an Iceland cruise? Celebrity have some next summer at quite reasonable prices, although we’d need to fly there! I’m guessing that’s probably not cheap!

[Omega1]

Originally Posted by Loulou127

Omega, what are your thoughts on an Iceland cruise? Celebrity have some next summer at quite reasonable prices, although we’d need to fly there! I’m guessing that’s probably not cheap!

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We’ve really enjoyed our Iceland cruises. In several ports we’ve rented cars (Reykjavik, Akureyri (x2) and Isafjordur) and done some fantastic tours, at a fraction of the cost of ship tours. The first was a transatlantic, Southampton to NYC via Iceland and Canada and the second included some Norwegian fjord ports.
Is it one of the 7 day itineraries you are looking at?

[Loulou127]

Originally Posted by Omega1

We’ve really enjoyed our Iceland cruises. In several ports we’ve rented cars (Reykjavik, Akureyri (x2) and Isafjordur) and done some fantastic tours, at a fraction of the cost of ship tours. The first was a transatlantic, Southampton to NYC via Iceland and Canada and the second included some Norwegian fjord ports.
Is it one of the 7 day itineraries you are looking at?

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Yes on the Silhouette, a GTY balcony cabin AI is @£1400 pp, I think that’s quite good, but then there’s flights on top of course

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by Omega1

We’ve really enjoyed our Iceland cruises. In several ports we’ve rented cars (Reykjavik, Akureyri (x2) and Isafjordur) and done some fantastic tours, at a fraction of the cost of ship tours. The first was a transatlantic, Southampton to NYC via Iceland and Canada and the second included some Norwegian fjord ports.
Is it one of the 7 day itineraries you are looking at?

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Unfortunately our port at akureyri has been cancelled and looking at the weather for Saturday we are also guessing that isafjordur might also be cancelled.

Greenland is nice but very remote. It’s different from where we have been before on cruises and I think we might have gotten bad timing as there is so much fog everywhere.

[Omega1]

Originally Posted by vampiress88

Unfortunately our port at akureyri has been cancelled and looking at the weather for Saturday we are also guessing that isafjordur might also be cancelled.

Greenland is nice but very remote. It’s different from where we have been before on cruises and I think we might have gotten bad timing as there is so much fog everywhere.

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Rotten luck that you are missing ports - it’s always possible when cruising but desperately disappointing nevertheless.