Cruise Essentials We Can't Travel Without
Whether it’s your first cruise or one hundredth, forgetting to pack an essential item before you leave can be a real hassle. Here are some items that we have found to be cruise essentials.
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Cabin Essentials
These products help you maximize the limited space inside your cruise cabin/stateroom.
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$7.99Buy NowWe use these magnets on every cruise. They can be stuck to the walls, ceiling, and doors of most cruise ship cabins. Perfect for keeping things organized! We use them to hang bathing suits, lanyards, hats, and door decorations.
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$9.99Buy NowSpring clips have so many uses on a cruise! We use them to clip towels to chairs, clip wet bathing suits on the balcony, and to clip the curtains closed.
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$4.87Buy NowWe always pack permanent markers. They are useful for putting names on bottles of water, cups, toothbrushes, and many other things.
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Fun Essentials
Finding hidden ducks and decorating our cabin door are essential activities for our family. We love hiding ducks; it’s a fun way to explore the ship. Decorating the door is an enjoyable activity that makes it easy to locate our cabin.
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$35.99Buy NowHiding rubber ducks around cruise ships is a fun way to enhance your vacation. Be sure to pick up some labels so other guests know who hid the duck!
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Buy NowAdding personalized stickers to the bottom of your ducks is a quick and easy way to enhance the fun of hiding them.
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Buy NowAdd a splash of fun to your door and make it easier to find in the sea of identical doors with a personalized magnet.
Device Charging Essentials
Keeping all your devices charged can be a challenge due to the limited number of available outlets in cruise ship cabins. Use one of these solutions to ensure everyone’s devices are charged and ready.
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$29.99Buy NowBasic option for multi device charging. The pigtail style plug prevents the whole outlet from being used up by the charging brick.
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$29.99Buy NowA more powerful Fast Charging capable power station that will be the best option for most people. We never travel without one of these!
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$14.99Buy NowThese adapters allow you to make use of the international receptacles in your cabin if you need maximum charging capabilities
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Cruise Comfort Essentials
Staying comfortable on a cruise isn’t a challenge at all! Although most necessities are provided, we don’t leave home without these essentials.
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$8.88Buy NowWe have tried dozen's of brands of sunscreen, and we think this is the absolute best. We find it lasts much longer and offers better protection from the sun's harmful rays.
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$14.98Buy NowIf you are traveling to a place that only allows the use of "reef safe" sunscreen, we have found that this is the best option.
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$7.88Buy NowThese allow for the quick removal of small stains in clothes and are a must pack item for our family.
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$8.99Buy NowMany people like to keep their cruise card on a lanyard. You can purchase one on the ship, or bring one from home and start using it right away!
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Cruise Packing Essentials
Packing and unpacking can be the least pleasant things about a cruise vacation. We always bring these products on our cruises to make that slightly unpleasant aspect of vacation a little more tolerable.
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$18.99Buy NowThese are a total game changer for dirty clothes. You can pile all of your dirty clothes in one of these bags and push the air out to save space. No more folding dirty clothes to make them fit!
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$13.99Buy NowWe like to keep all of our passports in one place with this wallet. We also print a copy of our travel insurance documents and keep them in here.
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$7.99Buy NowWe like to protect our paper luggage tags provided by the cruise line with these. It decreases the risk that a tag gets ripped off, delaying your luggage delivery.
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$7.99Buy NowThis wrinkle release spray saves time and money by avoiding having to have your clothes pressed. We keep ours in a zip top bag to prevent leakage in our luggage.
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