Germany to New York Transatlantic Cruise – 2018

We have decided to go on another Transatlantic Cruise with Princess Cruises on the Regal Princess ship.  Ever since we did the Transatlantic Cruise that ended in Copenhagen in 2016, we have thought about trying to get back to see St. Petersburg, Russia.  After we disembarked the ship in Copenhagen in 2016, the very next cruise itinerary for the Regal Princess was to visit St. Petersburg, and we had wished…

It has been a while since we have posted anything about this trip, but we have been doing a lot of planning none the less.  We have made our final payment, and now are just monitoring the flights in case there is a reduction in airfare pricing.  We have until 45 days before our departure date of August 28 to make changes to our airfare without penalty. A reduction in…

We have put together general plans of what we want to do while in most of our ports of call for this trip.  Several are fairly easy, and do not require us to go very far from the port, or, we are just staying in the port city.  There are a few others that we will venture farther away from the actual port, so those always take more upfront planning…

We will be leaving three weeks from today to begin our journey to Europe to board the Regal Princess. We have been trying to do more research on what to do in some of the other ports where we will be spending more time away from the ship. These ports include Stockholm, Greenock and Cobh. in addition we have done a lot more planning on what we’re going to try…

This will be our last planning update before we leave about a week from today. We have put the final touches on most of our planning efforts, and have also made a few changes since the last update. The biggest change is that we decided to switch hotels from staying in Warnemunde, Germany to staying in Rostock, Germany for the two nights before we leave on our cruise. There were…