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A First Timer’s Guide To Activities Onboard A Cruise

Cruise vacations offer a fun-filled trip filled with a ton of activities for you to enjoy throughout the day and night. There’s something for everyone be it shopping, contests, courses, gambling, entertainment, or adventure rides. Or if you want to just rest and sunbathe, there’s that option too.

Here’s our guide to getting the best out of your cruise vacation:

Daily Newsletter

Every evening a daily newsletter is delivered to your cabin, highlighting the activities and entertainment offerings scheduled for the next time along with useful information about the upcoming ports and the timings of the amenities available onboard.

During the daytime

Throughout the day cruise ships offer outdoor and sports activities such as pool games, basketball, and golf along with indoor classes and lectures on topics such as history or flower arranging. You can also opt to watch musical performances, comedy shows, or movie screenings or participate in a cooking workshop or a wine-tasting.

Gym and Spa services

Modern cruise ships offer a plethora of state of the art fitness centers and spas along with fitness classes, usually in the morning and in the early evening. Dropping into the spa or the salon is also a great option with multiple pampering treatments including massages, facials, manicures, pedicures, and hairstyling on offer. Most cruise ships also offer a range of unique treatments such as thalassotherapy, acupuncture, and more.

Kids’ entertainment

Many cruise ships offer separate kids’ sections with multiple play areas, water slides, arcades along with various camps. These camps offer vocational training along with several games supervised by trained youth counselors such as DJing courses, acting classes, science experiments, and arts and crafts projects. Usually, the kids’ sections close during meal times allowing families to dine together, and it is mostly up to the kids and parents how much time they spend in the youth lounges.

Evening entertainment

Cruise ships are all about the party once the sun sets with casinos that get packed with people flocking to the blackjack tables and slot machines, live bands, cabaret performers, and multiple avenues for partying. They also feature large scale shows with captivating production elements and performances by famous artists along with outdoor film screenings of blockbuster films.