Well, Stephanie and I got the travel bug again, and now we are planning our next adventure, another Transatlantic Cruise to celebrate our first wedding anniversary.
This trip will begin with a flight to Madrid, Spain on Friday, November 6, 2009, and end in Miami on November 21. We will spend two nights in Madrid before taking a high speed train to Malaga, Spain. The actual cruise portion starts in Malaga on Monday, November 9. Malaga is on the south coast of Spain on the Mediterranean Sea, just east of Gibraltar.
We were able to use the return ticket portion of our airfare leftover from our last cruise and land trip in London, and change the dates and the destination for less than half of a normal round trip fare. We picked the starting point of the trip as Madrid, mainly because it was the largest city in Spain close to Malaga, and the airfare and flight connections were better. We fly from Jacksonville to Philadelphia, then non-stop on to Madrid from there.
The cruise will be on a Royal Caribbean International Ship, the Navigator of the Seas, instead of our normal Princess Cruise Line ships. It will give us a chance to compare services between the two lines, and have the new adventure of figuring out a totally different ship. Now we can look lost like a lot of other cruisers we normally see!
The ports of call on this cruise include Malaga, Spain; Madiera Island, Portugal; Tenerife, Canary Islands; Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands; Nassau, Bahamas, and ending in Miami. Along with the ports of call, there is one sea day between Malaga and Madiera, and six sea days between the Canary Islands and Nassau.
More to Come!!