I want you to enjoy your cruise vacations as much as I enjoy mine. I am an expert on cruises having been on many different cruises on many different cruise lines. A big part of the memory of your cruise will be your ports of call. The cruise ship is, of course, loaded with fun and exciting activities, but much of what you are going to remember are the stops you made along the way.
In only a one week time, you will visit up to four, and possibly five different countries. I can tell you from experience, the fondness of your recollections of the cruise will be determined in large part by whether or not you got the most out of your ports of call.
If you are going on a cruise holiday, you want to see things you have never seen before. Parts of the world you have never been and might never see again. You will bring home souvenirs that you would not have found otherwise.
What can you do to ensure that your cruise is exactly what you want? The first step is to decide what you really want out of your cruise getaway and more specifically, your ports of call.
It is very important to plan ahead. It is likely that your cruise will stop in 3-5 ports of call, and of those, some will be designed for shoppers and some will be designed for nature lovers, and so on. Just be sure that you determine for yourself, in advance what you intend to do at a certain port of call. If you are visiting St.Thomas, then be sure you do your shopping there, if you are looking for an historical tour than you want to do that in Puerto Rico.
Some of the primary thing that people look for in different ports of call include: Shopping, general site seeing, nature, historical points of interest, beaches, snorkeling. Chances are the staff on the ship have been to all of your ports before so be sure to ask them what is the best activity at each one.