More cruise tips

More travel tips for smooth cruising:

Select your cabin with care. Even though you spend very little time in your room, you want to relax when you're in there.

Don't get a cabin on the Promenade deck. Also avoid the floors directly below the dining areas, the pool deck, the sports deck or the gym.

Also avoid rooms with adjoining doors unless you know your neighbors.

Try to select a room in the middle of the deck and on a lower deck as close as possible to the ship's center of rotation. This helps head off sea-sickness.

Insurance runs between 5-6% of the cost of the cruise but is definitely worth it. You'll be covered if you have to cancel the cruise for medical reasons, missed flights, work commitments, cruise line bankruptcy and other issues.