Seasickness?

Question

I am going on a short cruise soon & am slightly worried about sea sickness. My only experience of sea travel was on a small boat in Greece which rocked about like a pirate ship & oh was I ill & to a great extent has steered me well away from boats since. I know the cruise ships are enormous by comparison & stabilised etc but I am a belt n braces person & dont like to leave things to chance & welcome any tips from anyone who has experienced cruise travel & knows the ropes with regard to sea sickness.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

A cruise ship is very different to a smaller boat. You dont feel as much movement. I have a family member who was a little seasick on a cruise we went on and he bought a kind of wrist band that helped him stop feling sick. They are not expensive, just a couple of pounds I think and you can buy them on board the ship. You could also go to your local chemist and ask for some seasickness tablets.

Have a nice time!

Answer 3

Be carefull with Dramamine and other pills, they make your blood pressude drop and sometimes the outcome is worse than the sea sickness itself.

The gift shops onboard always sell Sea Sickness bands.

Its a brancelet you put 3 fingers from your wrist line, between the tendon and the vein and it makes  a pressure point, works like accupunture, but with no needles.

I worked on ships for 10 years and the people who worked with me who got sea sick always prefered the bands rather than pills.There´s 2 brands, one is pretty bad, in  nylon or plastic, with velcro.

The other is http://www.sea-band.com/seaband.htm

That very good and confortable.

Answer 4

You should be fine, as they are so big you hardly know you are moving even when its a bit choppy. I had sea bands just in case and honestly I never needed them once. If you were sick then there is a medical station where you can get something, but I'm sure you wont need to visit it. Stop worrying and enjoy your trip.

Answer 5

You are making yourself sick just thinking about it.  I think if you went on a rowing boat in the Serpentine you would be sick.  Take sickness tablets, and calm down and think of England.

Answer 6

There are patches you can slap on a few days before your travel aboard a ship that are supposed to help.  My husband and I just returned from a cruise around the Greek Islands last Saturday and the third day, as we neared the island of Crete, the waters got really rough and I threw up.  I am not even prone to motion or seasickness!!  So it doesn't matter...if the water is rough enough, it will affect you.  They say to try and look at the horizon if you can - that it helps.  We were stuck in an ultra small cabin with no window - but I found that laying down and closing my eyes, breathing with the rhythms of the waves, eating potato chips (for the salt), darkening the room and no TV until the rough waters passed work very very well.  The next day I felt fine, as though nothing had happened!!

Answer 7

The cruise crew are well used to this problem and have some stuff they rub at the back of your ears. It totally works and the sickness disappears. Seasickness only affects a few people on the large ships. Some ships have as many as 13 decks and one can't feel the 'rocking'

Also ginger is good for sickness, take some with you or buy ginger cordial on ship

Answer 8

As the late but great spike milligan said the best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree.