AREN’T YOU BORED ON A CRUISE SHIP – JUST WHAT IS THERE TO DO?

These are the questions that we always get asked when it is known we are going on a cruise, or in this case, a long voyage.

As an example, below is what is on offer throughout the ship between the hours of 0800 and 1600 today, Thursday 10 February. Bear in mind though, breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea will have to slot in there somewhere!

Walk a mile

Step aerobics

Christian fellowship get together

Pray the Rosary

Pathway to Pilates

Non hosted social tennis

Interactive games session

Coffee and chat and travelling alone

Line dancing class

Port talk on Bora Bora

Acupuncture for muscle tension and muscle cramps

Deck Quoits competition

Shuffleboard competition

Craft class

Improvers bridge

Theme quiz – classic tv cops and robbers

Non hosted cribbage

Non hosted chess get together

Non hosted scrabble

Beginners dance class

Oasis spa – is beauty skin deep

Tennis competition

Beginners Spanish

Table tennis competition

Guest speaker Charles Carlton on the British Monarchy today

Golf tricky chipping

Battle of the sexes quiz

Aurora vocalists passenger choir

Loose Lips (Aurora’s version of ITV’s Loose Women)

Giant scrabble

Talk on secrets to a flatter stomach and thinner thighs

Art class

Tap dancing class

Aussies get together (there are a large number of Australian passengers on this voyage)

Guest speaker Olga Stavrakis on the Great Polynesian Migrations

Non hosted whist

Whist drive

Duplicate bridge

Interactive bowling

Play reading group

Picture quiz

Dance class

Golf putting competition

Film: 2012

Canasta

Celebrity Guest speaker – Tim Wonnacott on Auctions, Anecdotes and Awful Moments

Snowball jackpot bingo

And that only takes us to 1600!  After that there is late afternoon entertainment, two Captain’s Welcome Aboard cocktail parties for those passengers that embarked in Valparaiso but obviously the whole ship go, dinner at 1830 and 2030 followed by shows, dancing and cabaret until the last passengers go to bed!

No, definitely no time to get bored – in fact sometimes it’s difficult to fit everything into the day, especially like today.

Saturday 12 February.

We are now 6 hours behind UK and lose another hour tonight. This will continue until the day before Papeete which will make us GMT -10.