This video is about the Pros and Cons of Repositioning Cruises and why these cheap cruises may be right for you. We took a fall repositioning cruise on the Celebrity Apex from Barcelona, Spain to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida making stops in Gibraltar, Malaga, Valencia, Azores, Bermuda, and Bahamas. We tell you what a positioning cruise is, when and where they travel, and give you some of the pros and cons of this type of travel. We also share some of our thoughts on the amazing Celebrity Apex and how you can get some great cruise deals.
We took our repositioning cruise on the Celebrity Apex. It is one of the modern Edge® Series – five innovative outward facing ships. Celebrity has put the world front and center visiting more than 50 countries and 120 ports of call. We highly recommend the any of the Celebrity Edge® Series cruise ships.
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00:00 Introduction
00:25 Upcoming Retirement Travelers Plans
01:21 What is a Repositioning Cruise?
02:05 When and Where do Repositioning Cruises Go?
02:20 Spring and Fall Repositioning Cruises
02:42 Pros and Cons of Repositioning Cruises
03:03 #1 Pro: Repositioning Cruises Save Money
03:47 Thoughts on Celebrity Apex
04:21 #2 Pro: Less Jet Lag with Repositioning Cruises
05:00 #3 Pro: Fewer Crowds on Repositioning Cruises
05:37 #4 Pro: Great Amenities on a Repositioning Cruise
06:33 #5 Pro: Easy to Make New Friends on Repositioning Cruise
07:04 #6 Pro: Fewer Children on Repositioning Cruise
07:35 #1 Con: Weather in the Shoulder Seasons
08:17 #2 Con: Rough Seas on Transatlantic or TransPacific Crossings
09:15 #3 Con: Additional Travel Required for Repositioning Cruises
09:56 #4 Con: Laundry Prices on Cruises
10:43 #5 Con: More Sea Days on Repositioning Cruise
11:34 Conclusion
21 Comments
We had a great transatlantic repositioning cruise on the Celebrity APEX and wanted to share our thoughts. If you have experience with a repositioning cruise, please share them with us in the comments.
Safe travels,
John and Bev
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Thanks! for rememboring me. next year england to FLL
Happy holidays to you and your family!!
is there a way or place to search for only repositioning cruises? thanks
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We are on the Apex for their TA in May. We’ve been on the ship a few times before (Europe, Scandinavia), and we love it! We cruise Celebrity almost exclusively. As recent retirees, we would never have had the opportunity to spend two weeks on a ship before. Although we are on the Celebrity Ascent this month, I’m looking forward to our TA in May. Now, we always tag a land trip on the front and/or back end of a cruise abroad.
When Apex returns to Europe in early May, we’ll be on her. And unless we book something for late 2024, our followup cruise after that will be a transpacific on the Solstice.
Thank you for a great video regarding repositioning cruises. We've done 9 day repositioning cruise we haven't considered a 14 day repositioning cruise. After watching your cruise we are going to look for a repositioning cruise which will suit our needs. BTW we also subscribed.
Bill
Thank you, this video has some great information …well done !
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We did transatlantic on apex spring 2022, I loved it!! And I was only 26 at the time 😆 Botox and large diamonds were everywhere
Thanks for this. I have never done a big cruise. Just a small Galapagos eight day cruise, small yacht type thing, and a small expedition through some Philippine islands (highly recommend) but never a big ship. I’m quite fascinated with the idea of a repositioning cruise. So smart 😊
Thank you for this video, I am definitely going to look into a transatlantic cruise.
I went on Celebrity from Ft. Lauderdale to LA through the Panama Canal. As a solo traveller it was my best bang for the buck.
Keep in mind that some cruise lines use repositioning cruises to do maintenace, upgrades and other refurbishments to the ships. This can create noises at all hours, chemical fumes, venues closing etc.
We did our first repo cruise in April-May from Sydney to Honolulu – 18 days on RC Ovation of the Seas. Got to Sydney a few days early to sightsee there. Missed first stop in New Zealand due to rough seas so 3 sea days, then a day in Aukland, 5 sea days to Papeete/Moorea for 2.5 days, 5 sea days to Honolulu arriving the afternoon early before departure day. Lots of fun. Too many sea days for my wife, though. Fun crossing the Dateline and the Equator. Still have Atlantic crossing on my bucket list.
Loved this video… Thank you for sparking my interest. I will look more into this for future trips. Safe travels to you guys!😊
Very nice job on this video. I haven’t seen your channel before but will look for other content based on the quality of this
Love this! Almost 45 and want to spend the rest of or my career doing what I love, so I am working to become a travel agent/ certified cruise counselor. Would love to do a transatlantic cruise someday. Did 11 Northern Europe this past summer.
Just came across your channel. It was an excellent subject! We are booked next October on the Apex to the Canary Islands and can’t wait. Their repositioning from Southampton to Ft. Lauderdale would be the next but one. I would LOVE to take that, but it wasn’t feasible (this time) to do that. I would probably have to do a repositioning cruise solo as my husband isn’t a great fan of sea days. Ship looks beautiful and cannot wait to sail on her.
You two are adorable. Hope you don’t mind a GenX subscriber. Thanks for the info. Booked a 10 day for March.