Over the years we began to consider whether to do a World Cruise. There were places on the globe we hadn't yet had the opportunity to visit. Most notably were India, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the southern part of the African continent. Early in 2009 we became aware of a new sailing by Princess Cruises that would travel around the African continent stopping at nine ports. Once we got to review the brochure showing the extent of the full World Cruise itinerary, we made the decision to do this cruise on the Pacific Princess scheduled for January 2011.
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| Princess Cruises World Cruise Brochure |
But, how do you begin planning for such a cruise? What are the little things you need to know before leaving home for nearly 4 months? Although we have cruised many times to locations all over the world, this adventure would be something very new to us. Not knowing all the answers but knowing we wanted to visit more of the world, we went ahead and booked this cruise in September 2009. After the cruise was booked the hard part really began. We searched for people who had done a world cruise before and searched for Blogs by other world cruisers. All of this in an attempt to learn what you should and shouldn't do.
Basically what were the lessons learned by people who had taken a similar cruise? Over the coming months we tried to learn as much as possible about our itinerary; the ship; weather for the route, packing issues; tax extensions; immunizations; visa requirements; foreign currencies, global cell phone, travel insurance and all the other things that one needs to consider in their overall planning process. What are ALL the other things!?!
