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“TAs are less than flying business class, everyone has a comfortable cabin, the food is
great and you frequently meet new and old friends on the crossing. And no jet lag”

To me, the real difference among cruises is the itiner- looked at us with a mix of admiration and bewilderment
ary. Ask veteran cruisers to name their favorite trip and when we told them that this was our first cruise. TAs nor-
chances are the answer is a repositioning cruise with lots mally are for experienced sailors who love long stretches
of sea days and a handful of interesting ports. (We’ll call of sea days and aren’t afraid of rough seas.
them Transatlantic or TAs because they are the majority
of repositioning cruises.) I’ve never been on a TA that isn’t We learned to love sea days and didn’t mind a few days
jam packed with loyal repeat cruisers with Elite, Diamond of rock and roll in the Atlantic. And we didn’t suffer any
or some other customer loyalty status symbol etched on jet lag at all when we walked off the gangway in Rome.
their sea passes. These folks keep coming back to TAs be- We became addicted to cruising and TAs on that voyage.
cause they provide a unique cruising experience that can’t We just enjoyed our 11th Celebrity TA a few months ago
be duplicated on most other cruises. which proved to be just as enjoyable as our first. In fact,
our cruise on the Silhouette from Fort Lauderdale to Am-
Our first major cruise was on a TA on Celebrity Equinox sterdam will be hard to beat.
that took us from Florida to Rome. Our fellow cruisers

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