Many cruise ships have stabilizers now. The very front of the ship is when I feel it the most. Your doctor can prescribe something for seasickness. Ive used the patches you put behind your ear and dramamine. Dramamine can make most people sleepy, me just a little. Some people use those wrist bands. I tend to book rooms on lower levels since you feel the motion of the boat less there.
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Our very first cruise was 7 nights on Oasis of the Seas and even that felt like we didn’t get to do everything. (With the caveat that the Oasis class ships are bigger than all the DCL ships.) Every cruise we’ve taken since has felt a little too short, both 4 and 5 nights.
I think seasickness is a very different beast than park rides. There’s definitely no spinning. I can’t ride FOP or teacups and Guardian’s hits my max of spinning. I’ve gotten seasick on really small craft in choppy waters. I have been 100% fine with no medication or patches or anything on all 3 cruises I’ve been on. And our Bermuda cruise had a few hours of serious rocking (like I had to hang onto the railings in the hallway to walk).
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Well, at least if everything goes to plan
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Well on the Alaskan cruises evidently they do turn the ships 360 degrees inside the Glacier national park!
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Oh man I’ll have bigger problems than being sea sick then hahah
My son had a talk with us and decided he wants to stick with Hawaii first. So we will do Aulani may 2025, cruise 2026.
Which I’m happy about I can get right on the 2026 cruises right when they drop for their best prices. I’m hoping there is a 5 day cruise my wife will like, maybe the new hero and villain ship
All this info from this thread is a godsend and gives me plenty of time to think and research for 2026 now.
Everyone here is the best
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Maelstrom!
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I took Meclizine each day of our cruise (Allure of the seas). I definitely felt slightly nauseated on the first night (when you could feel the ship swaying more) despite having taken the medication, so I am sure without it I would have been quite sick. The rest of the cruise I had brief periods of “uneasiness” but it was mostly fine.
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Just had to read thru this thread 
We are doing cruise Sept 2 (this year) …originally RCCL Utopia. But now might splurge on Disney Wish. Just waiting for the 75 day mark to see if there is a price drop for a GTY.
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We’ve done a 7-day western and a 7-day eastern. DH has developed some motion sickness over the past few years. We were fine on the western, but our dining room server mentioned that they tend to see the rougher days on the eastern sailings. On our last sea day of the eastern we had a rough sea day. DD and I were a little queasy. DH was miserable, spent most of the day in bed, and couldn’t even come to dinner and the show with us. I did like the itinerary of the eastern better but not sure where we stand on doing an eastern again.
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DH cannot do many of the wilder rides due to motion sickness. But cruising has never been a problem for him. We’ve done more than 20 cruises, including several to the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. Even when there has been rougher seas with a lot of motion, it has not been an issue. So maybe there is not always a connection between how you do on rides and how you do on cruises.
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7 day cruises are the best. Me and my family went last year in September and it was fabulous, the weather was perfect (not too windy). We went with cruise118 and it was a deal so it worked out extra cheap.
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