Whats it like to be a passenger on a mega-liner?
I’ve been on a couple of large ships. You don’t really feel you are one of a crowd as you tend to gravitate to people with the same interests. There are queues to join and leave the ship at the beginning and end of your trip but the cruise companies are masters of organising this. In port there is usually a scramble and queue to leave the ship especially if it is a tender port, but rejoining is more sedate. If you are not going on an organised tour (when you’ll have priority) it’s best to take a breakfast (or lunch) at your leisure and wait until the crowds have thinned. You soon find your bearings and don’t get lost. It is like being in the best hotel ever and I thought my first cruise was fantastic. The second wasn’t good but that was not the fault of the ship but the catering department’s mistakes. Do your homework about the ports of call as organised excursions are expensive and you will probably do better by yourself using public transport or a taxi. When we were in Dublin the cru
