Cruise Countdown Widget for Cruise Guests

This app was built by seafarers to count contracts. Guests count too, in the other direction: toward the ship. So the widget has a guest view. It counts down to embarkation day on your home screen and then counts the cruise itself.

Before the cruise: 21 days, then 20

Enter your embarkation and disembarkation dates and pick your ship. From then on the card shows UNTIL CRUISE, the days left, and AT SEA, the length of the cruise in nights. The bar under them is labelled COUNTDOWN. It starts empty on the day you enter your dates and is full on embarkation morning.

Embarkation day: the card turns over

At midnight before you board, the card changes by itself. ON CRUISE now reads 01. UNTIL HOME counts down to disembarkation. The bar says CRUISE and fills day by day.

Ports visited

The third number counts your ports. Tap plus on the widget when the ship ties up somewhere new. Or switch on port detection: after 15 minutes in a port the phone asks if the ship is alongside, and one tap counts it. The check runs on your phone, and your position is not sent anywhere for it. Details are on the port call counter page.

The weather on the card

The weather block shows temperature, condition and wind in knots for the place your phone is in. Before the cruise that is your weather at home. On board it follows the ship whenever the phone has a connection. Tap it for six days ahead.

One limit, plainly: the widget does not know your itinerary. It shows the weather where you are, not in next week's ports. It is also a forecast for a rounded position. Whether the tenders run is the bridge's call, not an app's.

After the cruise

The day after you walk down the gangway the counters are gone, and the card keeps the weather: today and the next six days. The ship stays on your home screen until the next booking.

Pick your ship

The guest view has three kinds of ship: cruise ship, mega cruise ship and expedition cruise ship. In the app you choose your cruise line and the class of your ship. What the rest of the card does is on the main widget page. The setup guide gets it onto your phone.

The crew behind your cruise

7SHORT1LONG® is a Seafarer Identity Brand, and the people behind this widget have worked on cruise ships. If you want to know that side of your holiday, start with cruise essentials that show respect to the crew and gratuities, service charges and crew respect. Other apps worth having on board are in the best cruise apps for guests.

The seven short and one long blasts you hear at muster drill are the cruise ship emergency alarm. Look at the bar on your widget. It has the same shape.

Guest questions