Re: OT: Baltic Cruises

2015-08-02 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 1/8/15, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: We are thinking of a Baltic cruise to St Petersburg. Has anyone on the list taken such a journey? Any recommendations? My wife has a tendency towards motion sickness, and that's why I wangted to hear from anyone who has been on one of

Re: OT: Baltic Cruises

2015-08-02 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Steve. The cruise I was looking at starts and ends in Stockholm. Others go from Amsterdam. If we have a following wind eastbound, we should then have a head wind westbound. Would that make it rougher? How are conditions in the early fall? Dan Matyola

OT: Baltic Cruises

2015-08-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
We are thinking of a Baltic cruise to St Petersburg. Has anyone on the list taken such a journey? Any recommendations? Years back, we took a ferry from Copenhagen to Oslo, and the crossing weas very rough. How rough are the seas likely to be on a cruise ship in the Baltic? What is the best

OT: Baltic Cruises

2015-08-01 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Dan, I don't have any idea about cruises, but I'd suggest that you should allow at the very least 3-4 days in St.-P. (You won't be bored if you can spend more, say, 1-2 weeks. It's like in Paris.) Plan at least a day in Petergof (Peterhof), the summer residence of tzars. Plan to visit

Re: OT: Baltic Cruises

2015-08-01 Thread Stan Halpin
Way OT... There is a site: cruise critic dot com which has more answers to such questions than you can imagine. Baltic conditions, variations among lines, among ships, among itineraries, etc. port reviews, tour reviews, etc etc. stan Sent from my iPad On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Daniel J.

Re: OT: Baltic Cruises

2015-08-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Stan. That site sounds very useful! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Way OT... There is a site: cruise critic dot com which has more answers to such questions than you can

Re: OT: Baltic Cruises

2015-08-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Igor. My wife and I did a river cruise in Russia in 1998. We had three days in Moscow, then a week on the rivers, canals and reservoirs, and finally 3 days in St Petersburg, Since it was a group tour, we did didn't have enough time to see everything we wanted to see. We did make it to