Your so very welcome. Our first Marella cruise was on Discovery 2, lovely first ship to cruise on, very easy layout and some stunning areas. We had so much fun and like us hope you love it so much that it isn't your last. 🚢🍾🍹💃🎤🌞😎🚢
Hi Steven, thanks for taking time to trouble, happy you found us and even happier you found our information useful. Our first Marella ship was Discovery 2, we loved it and it was that cruise that started our love affair with Marella and gave us the cruising bug. Lots of really nice areas, great entertainment and just a real ethos of fun fun fun! Hope you love it as much as we did. Come back and let us know if you can. 🚢🍹🌞😎💃🎤🚢
Thanks for watching Clive and thanks for taking the trouble to leave a comment. We are happy its been helpful. Hope you have a fantastic cruise. 🚢😎🍹🌞🍾🎤🚢
My wife and I are doing this voyager cruise 😢March 2025 for our 50th Birthdays. We found your videos and can I say that are sooooooo informative. We bing watched all 5 tonight. We can actually say we feel more comfortable about the red tape and what to expect. As it’s our first cruise. Thanks again boys. Darren and Gill
Hi Darren and Gill, thank you so much for your lovely comments. We are so happy you found the videos helpful. Not long for you to wait. Voyager is a lovely ship and we have no doubt you are going to have fabulous birthday celebrations and memories to treasure. If you get the chance come back and we would love to hear how you got on. Happy cruising 🚢🚢🍹☀😎🎤🚢🍹
Hi Paul, thanks so much for your lovely comments, appreciate you watching and for taking the time to comment, it means a lot to us and helps show that we are moving in the right direction. 🙂
Thanks Sue, it means a lot to us when people take the time to leave us such a lovely comment, Hope the notes keep growing when we bring part 2 out, will be much more information and tips on that one. 🚢🍹😎☀
Thanks for your lovely comments. We love Marella and finding it hard to try another cruise line. Hopefully Part 2 will also show you a lot more about life onboard a Marella cruise. Thanks for watching. 🚢😎☀🍹🍦🙂
@@michaelthompson6885 Good advice Michael. We loved Discovery 2 but in fact we have loved all three Marella ships we have sailed on. Voyager is probably just our favourite but we enjoyed Explorer as well. Discovery 2 probably had the most impressive areas especially the Atrium, Glass House, Theatre and MDR. 🙂
Thank you, great help, lots of good advice, much needed. First time fly cruise, Tui from Glasgow to Malaga, boarding Marella Discovery 2 for 7 nights 'Spanish Flavour' .Super excited to see Part 2 of your next video, advice for booking excursions. 😁😎☀👏👏👏👏
Hi Patricia, really appreciate you watching and taking time to leave us such lovely comments. We are visiting Malaga in November, sadly not a cruise but a city break. Discovery 2 was our first Marella ship and we really enjoyed it. Despite being old it has still got some beautiful impressive areas such as the Atrium, Main dining room and theatre. I think its due a refurb so hopefully that might be done before you go. The green house is also nice to relax. Sure you will have a lovely time. We are doing a live stream this Sunday but i hope to have part 2 a week later and will definitely focus more on life on the ship and lots about excursions. 🚢🍹🍦☀😎
@@midatravel Departing from Glasgow on the 7th November flying direct to Malaga, so I've got time to see part 2. Love your videos honest and upbeat. I'll see you on live on Sunday from Scotland.😁❤❤
As always, great advice. Did our first cruise September. Was fantastic. Im always sharing your channel as it's so helpful. We did an inside cabin, chosen by marella as we didn't know where would be best. When we were allocated the reviews on-line described it as, worst cabin on the ship, very noisy.. was absolutely fine. But of vibration docking but we treated it as an alarm lol. Can't wait to book the next one!! Thanks again for your advice mike 👍🚢😁
Hi Donna, thank you for taking the time to leave such lovely comments, so happy to know that people find our content helpful and we really appreciate you sharing our vlogs. So happy you enjoyed your first cruise, any thoughts for your next one? We fell lucky with our allocated cabin, not sure i would take the chance again but it was worth the experience. Guess like us you must be heavy sleepers and no need for an alarm clock! Take care and let us know when your next one is booked. 🚢😎☀🍦🍹🙂
Hi Martin, thanks for your lovely comments, we got ours from Decathlon but there are many on Amazon. Here is the link to the one i have, other colours available. www.decathlon.co.uk/p/_/R-p-158325
Great review. Travelled many times on Marella but also on Princess, P&O, Royal Caribbean plus a couple of others so not blinkered. Outside or inside? We like a window to look out, we have had an inside cabin but like to open the curtains and have a view. Balcony? We have cruised a few times and to be honest didn't really use the balconcy much, on our Fjords cruise we dashed side to side to see the views. If the cost is low enough we will book a balcony. On drinks, we find the standard package ok.
Hi Ian, thanks for your lovely comments and for watching. We have only tried Celebrity besides Marella so we need to start seeing what these other cruise lines have to offer. Have to admit i was like you and never thought i could stay in a room without a window. We started with balcony on Celebrity but found apart from early morning we didn't really use it. With Marella we went down to an outside which i quite liked but while on a cruise we got to look at the inside rooms on our changeover day and i was really pleasantly surprised so we decided to try it on our next cruise on Explorer and have to say i coped absolutely fine. I don't always plan to have inside rooms, if i saw an outside with a free upgrade to balcony i would do that. I am hoping we will do the Fjords next May and have to admit i love being on top deck as we sail into a port, it will help burn some calories running side to side! We went premium initially but like you we decided that the standard package had everything we needed. 🚢🌞😎🍹🍾
We always take one. We have a 3 plug adapter with 2usb's and a usbc. Make sure if you take one that it has not got surge protection. Sounds daft but they can be dangerous with the ships system. 🙂
Thanks for your nice comments and glad your enjoying our content, means a lot. I was surprised by the no surge protection as well but it is correct. Surge protectors are designed for land-based power with consistent voltage. Cruise ships create what’s known as “dirty power” where voltages fluctuate. This dirty power also degrades the life of mobile devices much faster than land-based power. Some cruise companies ban extention leads totally but i have never had a problem on Marella. Hope this helps. 🙂
hey, first of all my husband and I love your videos guys ! also when will there be an Aegean shore one , I need help :) Question - do you know if there is any issues with the hold luggage being large suitcases , I have see a lot of the suitcases at port on videos and ours are larger I just want to me sure there is no issue there as these as hold ones and its only the weight that matters? thanks in advance.
Hi Joanne. Thanks so much for your lovely comments, really gives us great encouragement. No plans at the moment for an Aegean shore cruise but hopefully we will get round to it one day soon. Regards the suitcases. TUI When flying with TUI, passengers can take one piece of hand luggage and up to 15kg of checked luggage free of charge. The TUI hand luggage size and baggage allowance are as follows: Cabin Bags (Max. Dimensions) H55 x W40 x D20cm Max. Weight - 10kg Hold Luggage (Max. Dimensions) H x W x D = Any Size Max. Weight - 15-23kg (valid August 2024) So if you are flying with Tui then their policy states Any size between 15-23kg depending on weight given at booking. If not Tui then take a look at this website. itluggage.com/pages/airline-luggage-size-guidelines Hope this helps and now that is one worry less. 🙂🙂🙂
Hi Rick. Have to admit that on reading the small print I did see that the one I used is surge protected and therefore unsuitable for cruising. Have found this one which I will probably order for our next cruise. Also more compact which is a bonus. Sorry is this shows as long link but will try, if not I'm afraid its copy and paste. .www.amazon.co.uk/Travel-Extension-BEVA-Retractable-Camping-White/dp/B0D99QTQFV/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2JVUNKP2Z40N7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8dguOhp4k5cEYdY63Og0D3lC_zjiaawlOI4x5nDtUSBHq4SkKtKXCzTdtlP0jijY-rwilp-21MVwSygXrwv_9yD44in6AYoxXvBwxwpt-rpZlloOBu3uMmYDqV1mHU2z9-ZixNIRTTdF1QWC4ZAms0bo4nE7Qo7fVbDH4hN_zLb3qQx7J8MPAzFz3dyJ0daOYWVdUobBNJHA65--VmCBzWPsEDqlymFzdYPjLF3EMJg.WqDT5biJoQQeH4wImWCumMEtYC7V5TKkKWkRFqrJYYw&dib_tag=se&keywords=amazon+cruise+extension+lead&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732550609&sprefix=amazon+cruise+extension+lead%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-4
Hi, i got mine off Amazon. I have looked but would appear it is no longer available as i cannot find it. I have found this one and may well be more on Amazon at a cheaper price.www.amazon.co.uk/Extension-Outlets-Protector-Cruise-Travel-White/dp/B0B3DC27Q3/ref=sr_1_6?crid=26DHX1Y3HHZHB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pMft1m6nUv4C9YzYs0a6q9d7Z-OjlkL5mWdWfWjoiQL71wOmP7JtSwc5dRsoGyGmOE3GMR4pFNYi5H52GMuRutB1EU9H-0vpHz8DwaHxLDpnt2_Ye0o57a3ZaEnwmoA9d1xSDrisxf3cFm4zVspOFIlPVUYwm6p4qHjjfOVEm8p3-kV-XmlUx1Sf9tQIJ5zL9t29tNRMund0pFdCxGY6BPdPcVn23frnRX3pwPpglgc.-6_RwJt7DihZR7Vfrd3_znLebaVMYNO3EzJ69ynPX28&dib_tag=se&keywords=non+surge+power+strip+for+cruise+ship+uk&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1729441899&sprefix=non+surge+%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-6
Cheers Jack, appreciate that. You should have no problem taking or using a tripod on board the ship. Many people who have taken tripods state that they rarely use it and many say a monopod is better. So be confident it will get used and hope you get to take some great photos. 🙂
A really good video, thanks.
A big thank you for watching and for your lovely comments. Happy you found it useful. 😃
Thank you so much for the info guys. First time cruisers on Discovery 2 in May.
Your so very welcome. Our first Marella cruise was on Discovery 2, lovely first ship to cruise on, very easy layout and some stunning areas. We had so much fun and like us hope you love it so much that it isn't your last. 🚢🍾🍹💃🎤🌞😎🚢
Just found your channel and yous give really good information as my partner and I will be going on the discovery 2 next year for the first time
Hi Steven, thanks for taking time to trouble, happy you found us and even happier you found our information useful. Our first Marella ship was Discovery 2, we loved it and it was that cruise that started our love affair with Marella and gave us the cruising bug. Lots of really nice areas, great entertainment and just a real ethos of fun fun fun! Hope you love it as much as we did. Come back and let us know if you can. 🚢🍹🌞😎💃🎤🚢
Looking to book Xmas brilliant advice thank you 👍
Thanks for watching Clive and thanks for taking the trouble to leave a comment. We are happy its been helpful. Hope you have a fantastic cruise. 🚢😎🍹🌞🍾🎤🚢
My wife and I are doing this voyager cruise 😢March 2025 for our 50th Birthdays. We found your videos and can I say that are sooooooo informative. We bing watched all 5 tonight. We can actually say we feel more comfortable about the red tape and what to expect. As it’s our first cruise. Thanks again boys. Darren and Gill
Hi Darren and Gill, thank you so much for your lovely comments. We are so happy you found the videos helpful. Not long for you to wait. Voyager is a lovely ship and we have no doubt you are going to have fabulous birthday celebrations and memories to treasure. If you get the chance come back and we would love to hear how you got on. Happy cruising 🚢🚢🍹☀😎🎤🚢🍹
Absolutely brilliant video. A must watch before your introduction to marella cruises.
Hi Paul, thanks so much for your lovely comments, appreciate you watching and for taking the time to comment, it means a lot to us and helps show that we are moving in the right direction. 🙂
Brilliant video, thank you , I have been making notes!
Thanks Sue, it means a lot to us when people take the time to leave us such a lovely comment, Hope the notes keep growing when we bring part 2 out, will be much more information and tips on that one. 🚢🍹😎☀
Not a first time cruiser, but looking for a first cruise on Marella. Very helpful. Thank you for your time and effort.
Thanks for your lovely comments. We love Marella and finding it hard to try another cruise line. Hopefully Part 2 will also show you a lot more about life onboard a Marella cruise. Thanks for watching. 🚢😎☀🍹🍦🙂
try to book one of the discovery ships for the best onboard experience would be my advice.
@@michaelthompson6885 Good advice Michael. We loved Discovery 2 but in fact we have loved all three Marella ships we have sailed on. Voyager is probably just our favourite but we enjoyed Explorer as well. Discovery 2 probably had the most impressive areas especially the Atrium, Glass House, Theatre and MDR. 🙂
Thanks for the tips
Your very welcome and thank you for watching. 🚢🍹🌞😎🚢
Thank you, great help, lots of good advice, much needed. First time fly cruise, Tui from Glasgow to Malaga, boarding Marella Discovery 2 for 7 nights 'Spanish Flavour' .Super excited to see Part 2 of your next video, advice for booking excursions. 😁😎☀👏👏👏👏
Hi Patricia, really appreciate you watching and taking time to leave us such lovely comments. We are visiting Malaga in November, sadly not a cruise but a city break. Discovery 2 was our first Marella ship and we really enjoyed it. Despite being old it has still got some beautiful impressive areas such as the Atrium, Main dining room and theatre. I think its due a refurb so hopefully that might be done before you go.
The green house is also nice to relax. Sure you will have a lovely time. We are doing a live stream this Sunday but i hope to have part 2 a week later and will definitely focus more on life on the ship and lots about excursions. 🚢🍹🍦☀😎
@@midatravel Departing from Glasgow on the 7th November flying direct to Malaga, so I've got time to see part 2. Love your videos honest and upbeat. I'll see you on live on Sunday from Scotland.😁❤❤
As always, great advice. Did our first cruise September. Was fantastic. Im always sharing your channel as it's so helpful. We did an inside cabin, chosen by marella as we didn't know where would be best. When we were allocated the reviews on-line described it as, worst cabin on the ship, very noisy.. was absolutely fine. But of vibration docking but we treated it as an alarm lol. Can't wait to book the next one!! Thanks again for your advice mike 👍🚢😁
Hi Donna, thank you for taking the time to leave such lovely comments, so happy to know that people find our content helpful and we really appreciate you sharing our vlogs. So happy you enjoyed your first cruise, any thoughts for your next one? We fell lucky with our allocated cabin, not sure i would take the chance again but it was worth the experience. Guess like us you must be heavy sleepers and no need for an alarm clock! Take care and let us know when your next one is booked. 🚢😎☀🍦🍹🙂
Thank you 😊 your advice is so greatly appreciated x
Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comments, you are very welcome. 🙂
Thank you so much .That is brilliant.
Thanks for your lovely comments, hopefully you will find part 2 as useful, will be a lot more ship focused. 🚢🍹🍦☀😎
Great video mike . I am a first time cruises good information
Thanks Kieth that means a lot. Hopefully part 2 will have lots more tips to help. Thanks for watching and for taking time to comment. 🙂
Great video both of your advice is always excellent
Cheers Terry, Definitely helps our confidence with comments like yours, really appreciate you watching and for taking trouble to leave a comment. 🙂
Brilliant series of Videos...Can you post a link to the..Microfibre Beach Towels...Thanks
Hi Martin, thanks for your lovely comments, we got ours from Decathlon but there are many on Amazon. Here is the link to the one i have, other colours available. www.decathlon.co.uk/p/_/R-p-158325
Great review. Travelled many times on Marella but also on Princess, P&O, Royal Caribbean plus a couple of others so not blinkered. Outside or inside? We like a window to look out, we have had an inside cabin but like to open the curtains and have a view. Balcony? We have cruised a few times and to be honest didn't really use the balconcy much, on our Fjords cruise we dashed side to side to see the views. If the cost is low enough we will book a balcony. On drinks, we find the standard package ok.
Hi Ian, thanks for your lovely comments and for watching. We have only tried Celebrity besides Marella so we need to start seeing what these other cruise lines have to offer. Have to admit i was like you and never thought i could stay in a room without a window. We started with balcony on Celebrity but found apart from early morning we didn't really use it. With Marella we went down to an outside which i quite liked but while on a cruise we got to look at the inside rooms on our changeover day and i was really pleasantly surprised so we decided to try it on our next cruise on Explorer and have to say i coped absolutely fine. I don't always plan to have inside rooms, if i saw an outside with a free upgrade to balcony i would do that. I am hoping we will do the Fjords next May and have to admit i love being on top deck as we sail into a port, it will help burn some calories running side to side! We went premium initially but like you we decided that the standard package had everything we needed. 🚢🌞😎🍹🍾
Our first cruise in 3 weeks, Caribbean Islands, do we need a plug adapter for the cabin ? Great informative video again.
We always take one. We have a 3 plug adapter with 2usb's and a usbc. Make sure if you take one that it has not got surge protection. Sounds daft but they can be dangerous with the ships system. 🙂
@@midatravel yeah we have non surge, many thanks again
Why are the extension leads to have no surge/overload protection? Thank you and enjoying you content 🙂
Thanks for your nice comments and glad your enjoying our content, means a lot. I was surprised by the no surge protection as well but it is correct. Surge protectors are designed for land-based power with consistent voltage. Cruise ships create what’s known as “dirty power” where voltages fluctuate. This dirty power also degrades the life of mobile devices much faster than land-based power. Some cruise companies ban extention leads totally but i have never had a problem on Marella. Hope this helps. 🙂
Hi everyone it will be my first cruise on marella voyager in feb 25 med cant wait
Excited for you, sure you are going to love it. 🙂
hey, first of all my husband and I love your videos guys ! also when will there be an Aegean shore one , I need help :)
Question - do you know if there is any issues with the hold luggage being large suitcases , I have see a lot of the suitcases at port on videos and ours are larger I just want to me sure there is no issue there as these as hold ones and its only the weight that matters? thanks in advance.
Hi Joanne. Thanks so much for your lovely comments, really gives us great encouragement. No plans at the moment for an Aegean shore cruise but hopefully we will get round to it one day soon. Regards the suitcases.
TUI
When flying with TUI, passengers
can take one piece of hand luggage and up to 15kg of checked luggage free of charge. The TUI hand luggage size and baggage allowance are as follows:
Cabin Bags (Max.
Dimensions)
H55 x W40 x D20cm
Max. Weight - 10kg
Hold Luggage (Max.
Dimensions)
H x W x D = Any Size
Max. Weight - 15-23kg
(valid August 2024)
So if you are flying with Tui then their policy states Any size between 15-23kg depending on weight given at booking.
If not Tui then take a look at this website.
itluggage.com/pages/airline-luggage-size-guidelines
Hope this helps and now that is one worry less. 🙂🙂🙂
The extension lead you showed, was this a non surge one?
Hi Rick. Have to admit that on reading the small print I did see that the one I used is surge protected and therefore unsuitable for cruising. Have found this one which I will probably order for our next cruise. Also more compact which is a bonus. Sorry is this shows as long link but will try, if not I'm afraid its copy and paste.
.www.amazon.co.uk/Travel-Extension-BEVA-Retractable-Camping-White/dp/B0D99QTQFV/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2JVUNKP2Z40N7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8dguOhp4k5cEYdY63Og0D3lC_zjiaawlOI4x5nDtUSBHq4SkKtKXCzTdtlP0jijY-rwilp-21MVwSygXrwv_9yD44in6AYoxXvBwxwpt-rpZlloOBu3uMmYDqV1mHU2z9-ZixNIRTTdF1QWC4ZAms0bo4nE7Qo7fVbDH4hN_zLb3qQx7J8MPAzFz3dyJ0daOYWVdUobBNJHA65--VmCBzWPsEDqlymFzdYPjLF3EMJg.WqDT5biJoQQeH4wImWCumMEtYC7V5TKkKWkRFqrJYYw&dib_tag=se&keywords=amazon+cruise+extension+lead&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1732550609&sprefix=amazon+cruise+extension+lead%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-4
Thanks guys, I'll get it ordered now as we go this Thursday.
Where did you get your extension from, I can't seem to find one without surge protection?
Hi, i got mine off Amazon. I have looked but would appear it is no longer available as i cannot find it. I have found this one and may well be more on Amazon at a cheaper price.www.amazon.co.uk/Extension-Outlets-Protector-Cruise-Travel-White/dp/B0B3DC27Q3/ref=sr_1_6?crid=26DHX1Y3HHZHB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pMft1m6nUv4C9YzYs0a6q9d7Z-OjlkL5mWdWfWjoiQL71wOmP7JtSwc5dRsoGyGmOE3GMR4pFNYi5H52GMuRutB1EU9H-0vpHz8DwaHxLDpnt2_Ye0o57a3ZaEnwmoA9d1xSDrisxf3cFm4zVspOFIlPVUYwm6p4qHjjfOVEm8p3-kV-XmlUx1Sf9tQIJ5zL9t29tNRMund0pFdCxGY6BPdPcVn23frnRX3pwPpglgc.-6_RwJt7DihZR7Vfrd3_znLebaVMYNO3EzJ69ynPX28&dib_tag=se&keywords=non+surge+power+strip+for+cruise+ship+uk&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1729441899&sprefix=non+surge+%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-6
Hope this helps. 🙂
@@midatravelThank you 👍
@@odball1966 Not quite the same as mine but very similar. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B093C3P9R3/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3MP35926IG7ZR&psc=1
Hello great video.
Quick question: can I take my tripod stand for my camera on board marella Explorer two.
Thanks
Jacko
Cheers Jack, appreciate that. You should have no problem taking or using a tripod on board the ship. Many people who have taken tripods state that they rarely use it and many say a monopod is better. So be confident it will get used and hope you get to take some great photos. 🙂