If you take a cruise ship to Alaska, is there much chance of getting sea sick?

Question

If you take a cruise ship to Alaska, is there much chance of getting sea sick?

Answer 1

yes but they have specia; piel or patches called dramimin to help you from getting sea sick

Answer 2

There are two types of Alaskan cruises.  One is a round trip cruise and the other is a one way cruise (either north or south).

If you take a round trip cruise, then you will spend most of your time in protected waters (the inside passage) where it is very unlikely you will get seasick.

If you take a one way cruise, you will spend a day in the Gulf of Alaska which is a large body of unprotected water.  It is possible, if there is a strong enough wind, to get seasick in the Gulf of Alaska.

However, these ships are big and have stabilizers.  Though it is possible to get seasick, it is not likely.

I get seasick easily (I have been on eight cruises including two weeks in Alaska) thought I have never gotten seasick on a cruise ship.  However, for one Caribbean cruise I was warned ahead of time that it might be rough (there was a storm chasing us and the seas were rough).  I took ginger tablets with me and I was fine.

I like ginger because it is not a drug and because it is the only thing that worked on Mythbusters.  I took one tablet before breakfast (starting the morning before I boarded the ship), with water, and one tablet before dinner, with water.  I heard others on the ship did get seasick, so I assume the ginger worked for me.

Answer 3

sea sickness comes from an imbalance in the inner ear.  If you have poor equilibrium, (do you run into doorways when you try to go through it) you have an issue with equilibrium.

You can get through a cruise with little to no discomfort because it is a very big vessel.  If you do feel nauseous at first it will probably go away with time as your body adjusts to the movement.

Answer 4

It depends on whether or not you suffer from motion sickness, for example, if you feel ill while travelling by car, bus, train or aeroplane, you may get sea-sick on a cruise liner. Having said that, cruise liners are so big and are so well stabilised, that you really need to be ultra-sensitive to motion or to be travelling in really bad weather to be affected by the movement of the ship.

There are many preventative measures that prevent sea-sickness, wrist bands, injections, tablets and the ship's captain who will try his up-most to avoid any bad weather in case his ship gets damaged and sea sick passengers don't spend if they are lying ill in their cabins.

Answer 5

Before We took an Alaskan cruise, out travel agent said it was best to take the North to South cruise because the waves were much milder in that direction. We flew to Anchorage, did a 4 day tour which was all part of the cruise. We went to Denali park, took a train south to the coast and many neat thing in between like the white pass railroad tour. When then got on the ship, and sailed South and to  the inside passage, then South some more ending up in Canada. I have been on 8 cruises, all with Princess, and to this day, Alaska is still my all time favorite. Oh yea, no sea sickness at all and my husband is prone to it. He did have those sea bands on which I'm sure is a psychological thing, but did work. So there you go.

Answer 6

If you're prone to it and the seas are choppy, absolutely.  My partner was seasick for a day on ours.

I'm told you can lessen the effects by getting an inside stateroom on the lower decks, no windows.  That way you won't feel the choppiness as much.  I met someone on the ship who is prone to seasickness who only books an inside stateroom on the lower decks and she said it really works.