9 Cruise Mistakes Seniors MUST Avoid

Your flight lands at ten on the morning the ship sails. Your medication is packed in the suitcase you'll hand the porter, and the brochure calls your shore excursion "easy." At home, every one of those decisions seems harmless. If you're cruising after sixty, the mistakes that make a trip miserable are usually not the dramatic ones. Airplanes do not care about your cruise schedule, your suitcase may not reach your cabin for hours, and easy is not a measurement. 01:14 - #9 Not Drinking Enough Water Because You're on Vacation 02:20 - #8 Packing Shoes for Dinner Instead of Shoes for Walking 03:31 - #7 Sitting Too Long on Travel Day to "Save Your Legs" 05:10 - #6 Medication in the Suitcase You Hand the Porter 06:50 - #5 Flying In on the Same Day the Cruise Leaves 08:06 - #4 Choosing a Cabin by Price and Category, Not Location 09:36 - #3 Handing Over Your Suitcase Without a First-Day Bag 10:57 - #2 Booking an Excursion Because the Brochure Says "Easy" 12:42 - #1 The Insurance Mistake That Can Matter More Than the Cruise I'm Calvin Rusk. I'm sixty-five, and getting older doesn't mean you stop traveling. It means you stop wasting energy on problems you could have prevented before you left home. Here are nine cruise mistakes passengers over sixty should avoid, including the water you forget on a hot port day, the shoes you pack for dinner instead of walking, the travel day you spend sitting still to "save your legs," the cabin most people pick in three minutes, the small bag that saves your first afternoon, and number one, an insurance mistake that can matter a lot more than the price of the cruise itself. Which one have you made, or what would you add for somebody taking their first cruise after sixty? Put it in the comments. Next time: the cabin mistake I left off this list, and what I heard above my ceiling at five thirty in the morning.