After I booked the cruise and before I went much further along the planning path and being a somewhat stickler for details I decided to start a cruise binder - while much of the info could be kept digitally I am enough of the old guard that I like to have a paper trail.
So I found an old large 4" binder and started to put it together - I basically put a divider in for each day of the cruise - yes all 49 days - then put in an info sheet with the day, date, port or sea day and if it is a tender port, time in port etc. I even colored coded them - green for port days and pink for sea days so if I am doing a quick search I know whether it is a sea or port day. I also an writing info I get from other sources and if I booked a private tour that info as well - once I get closer to actual date I will update those sheets and print them out.
I even got more inventive when it came to excursions - printing them out on yellow sheets and putting general info articles on your standard white. It seems to be working so now when I open a particular port it is easy for me to find what I am looking for.
Just a short entry for now.
Next up - finding out about my embarkation port of Fort Lauderdale and booking of the hotel and train.
Future articles - paying for the trip and one on sourcing of info and excursions.
Cheers
binder is a great idea...i usually keep a folder for cruises, but this one is going to take much more space ;)
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