[Blumpkin]

Just curious how much sleep people get on the cruise. I personally HAVE to get my beauty rest, meaning a full night's sleep (as well as take periodic rests throughout the day whenever I get tired). I can go sleep-deprived for a day or so, but not the whole 4 days (5 if you count the pre-cruise shenanigans), but I've heard plenty of people say they hardly sleep at all until after they get off the boat. I don't know how they do this, especially if they're drinking a lot (drinking makes me tired), although none of the people who told me this moshed during any of the shows, so that definitely helps save some energy. What's your sleep schedule like while on the cruise?

[stoverkill]

I was drinking beer all day, every day. I was in the mosh pit all day, every day, and I got about 3 hours sleep every day.

Thrashing hard, livin' fast, dyin' young, and leaving a good-looking corpse.... that's the life for me!

Try power napping

[DrinkMoxie]

yeah, 3 hours a night average was about the best I could pull off

[Pero]

The shows usually start at 10 am and end at 4 or 5 am, then it's time for karaoke. So the only time left for sleep is between 6-9am :)

[mooyagi]

First 70K I got about 3 hours of sleep a night. Second 70K I got a lot of sleep. Planned on taking naps but then had a ton of trouble rolling out of bed from them. On Barge I got a decent amount of sleep as the running order was nice enough to let me sleep in on most days.

The day we make our port stop is the day I get the most sleep. I prefer to sleep in then just spend a couple of hours at most off the ship. If Cockburn Town is like Nassau, it will be hard to get me off the boat.

[KDibildeaux]

I also like to get my sleep. Hell if I could get 10 hours a night I would, though on the boat of course that isn't possible. I think I usually got around 5-6 hours of sleep except the last night. The first cruise I just didn't sleep the last night, the second one I got about a hour and for Barge I got about 2 hours the last night. I suspect this cruise I will have a lot of sleep time

[Mal2000]

On 70k I got average 4 hours sleep a night, except for the last night, when I did not sleep at all.
On Barge to Hell I had max. 2 hours sleep a night, with some 2 times of 15min powernaps on a deck chair mainly during sound check so not really sleep.
When I got off the ship on Friday, I slept more than 16 hours before my Saturday's flight.
As Stover said - live is short, so live fast

[STACH100]

The first bands don't start til 10 AM, gives you enough time to get 6 hrs sleep if you want.

[athun]

i read a study that said multiple 45 minute power naps (with rem sleep) work best. any longer than 40 mins rem and you just feel more tired. or you can heed the words of the great warren zevon "I'll sleep when i'm dead"

[doomguy]

Sleep? Ain't nobody got time fo dat!

[Jebus_Cripes]

I personally had no problem getting a good 6 hours of sleep. Usually stayed up till 2-4 am and got up 9-10. If you want to get sleep you could easily miss the early morning shows and sleep in.

[Ecliptica]

Seriously thought this thread was going to be about the doom metal band Sleep.

The problem with the cruise is that everyone has total fear of missing out (FOMO). The first cruise, I didn't go to much karaoke because most of the bands I wanted to see either played disgustingly early (Swashbuckle) or disgustingly late (Witchburner), so I was up until 4:30 watching bands or up at 9:30 making sure I was in the front for Swashbuckle (I could've gone to that at 9:59 and still been up front. . .).

Last year, I was a karaoke fiend and got about 2-3 hours of rest a day. I did a lot of relaxing during sets of bands I wanted to see but didn't need to be up front for (Venom I watched from the Viking Crown, Riot I was in the seats in the Spectrum, etc.).

Basically, you just have to think like a cold-blooded animal -- conserve energy when you can and go friggin' nuts when you want to. It worked well for me last year.

[AlaskaRachel]

I'm a big fan of getting a full night's sleep as well, but on the cruise it was rare that I was ready for bed before 4am. I'd get tired a lot, but there were so many other things I wanted to do or places I wanted to be. Occasionally though there were a few times where I said "F*** this band, I'm taking a nap." I didn't drink a lot of coffee or energy drinks or anything. I think most of us were running on adrenaline from the excitement.

[WizardBeast]

Just curious how much sleep people get on the cruise. I personally HAVE to get my beauty rest, meaning a full night's sleep (as well as take periodic rests throughout the day whenever I get tired). I can go sleep-deprived for a day or so, but not the whole 4 days (5 if you count the pre-cruise shenanigans), but I've heard plenty of people say they hardly sleep at all until after they get off the boat. I don't know how they do this, especially if they're drinking a lot (drinking makes me tired), although none of the people who told me this moshed during any of the shows, so that definitely helps save some energy. What's your sleep schedule like while on the cruise?

i moshed and drank and only slept about 4-5 hrs a night. somehow it works. in real life i enjoy at least 7 hours :-) i dunno, just go with it and if you need a nap, take it!

[Tobbe]

Not enough I guess, because I wake up still drunk every morning. Going to bed somewhere between 6-8 and crawl out of my bunk at 9. Try to sleep a bit longer when the ship is ashore. I really didn't care much for either Cozumel or the Caymans. Just took a stroll on each island to buy some stuff. On the first night / morning on 2011's cruise, I have some loose memories that the ship was very empty and that's why I left for bed. I also have trouble to sleep when things are moving, like ships, trains and on flights.

[Stained Class]

Sleep? Ain't nobody got time fo dat!

Lord jesus it's a metal cruise!

Seriously thought this thread was going to be about the doom metal band Sleep.

Me too

As far as sleep goes, I have one thing to say:

MARGARITAS AND RED BULL.

[ArlequinA]

OH MY GOD HOW I LOVE MARGARITAS.

[Stained Class]

OH MY GOD HOW I LOVE MARGARITAS.

OH MY GOD THAT'S AWESOME

[Blumpkin]

I don't know how you guys do it. I just know I can't stay up like that. Once I fall asleep (unless it's somewhere really uncomfortable or loud), I sleep all the way through unless something wakes me up. I know I definitely stay asleep if I've been drinking too. I'd usually go to sleep late, then wake up around 12 or 1, which meant unfortunately missing the early shows. It definitely would be nicer if it were a 5 day cruise with only the bands playing over the course of only 12 hours on the full play days (sea days).

[Stained Class]

I don't know how you guys do it. I just know I can't stay up like that. Once I fall asleep (unless it's somewhere really uncomfortable or loud), I sleep all the way through unless something wakes me up. I know I definitely stay asleep if I've been drinking too. I'd usually go to sleep late, then wake up around 12 or 1, which meant unfortunately missing the early shows. It definitely would be nicer if it were a 5 day cruise with only the bands playing over the course of only 12 hours on the full play days (sea days).

I set an alarm, so that I don't oversleep like Marlo. It's not even hard getting up after a 2 hour sleep because there is just too much awesomeness to be had.

[Jebus_Cripes]

I made the mistake of taking off on a flight home the Friday last year. This time I booked a hotel for sleep.

[Goddess of Metal]

Sleep? Ain't nobody got time fo dat!

Exactly!!!


15 hrs total on 70K - 2011
13 hrs total on 70K - 2012
10 hrs total on Barge
Predict even less on 70K -2013

At home though I like 8-10 hrs / night.

[KDibildeaux]

I made the mistake of taking off on a flight home the Friday last year. This time I booked a hotel for sleep.

The only drawback is that a lot of times they won't let you check in very early

[doomguy]

Sleep? Ain't nobody got time fo dat!

Lord jesus it's a metal cruise!

Haha!

I slept normally between about 5:00-5:30 and 9:00. I set my alarm for 9am every morning, so I could get up, have a quick shower and breakfast before the events started. Except for the final night I decided to go all out and do an all nighter in the Boleros lounge for Karaoke, being the final night after the last band had played, and since I never saw much of the Karaoke at all the previous days. Surprisingly I didn't feel tired at all that morning when we're leaving the boat, I felt quite good albeit a little bit depressed that it was all over. There was plenty of time to sleep on the plane if I wanted to, so that was ok.

I only felt tired during one of the days and was dozing off during one of the bands I was up front for, haha. But I think I had some red bull and a meal after that to re-energize myself and all was good.

[DemonNIN]

I slept and ate way more than I should have on Barge. I'm hoping to get less sleep and eat better on 70k.

[ShoreSlayer]

4 - 6 hours sleep per night then, if there's a lull in the lineup, maybe a power nap at some point in the day with an alarm set. Rinse, repeat and sleep when it's over (or when ya die as they say)

[Blumpkin]

I guess since I feel since I'm on vacation, I want to sleep in. Maybe next time I'll try being a little more sleep deprived. It'll be difficult though, so no promises. I definitely had to put work in to keeping up my energy on the cruise -- tons of water (which was one of the reasons why I didn't drink much, and generally don't drink much at shows), large meals (2 a day and then that stupid pizza after the restaurants closed) with plenty of fruits and vegetables and little rests when I could (whether it be napping, lying down or sitting down).

[Jebus_Cripes]

Personally I felt great on the cruise and I drank a LOT. It was after the cruise I finally crashed. Maybe there is something to that adrenaline theory...

[viathyn]

I slept about 6 hours a night.

One night, I was up until 8am at karaoke, so of course I missed Atheist and Alestorm on the pool deck. I was disappoint.

[KDibildeaux]

4 - 6 hours sleep per night then, if there's a lull in the lineup, maybe a power nap at some point in the day with an alarm set. Rinse, repeat and sleep when it's over (or when ya die as they say)

But sleep is so wonderful!

[pablov8]

I got most hours of sleep on wednesday after returning from Cayman... first one hour and a half in the form of Children of Bodom gig, then went to a one hour power nap, which turned in almost 4 and lost Kataklysm show on the pool
Then got up, got drunk again an slept two or three more hours. The rest of the days were 4 hours or less (none on last night).

[Stained Class]

On barge bands ended at like 3 before the destination port so i got a couple extra hours in that night

[rwalters]

4-7 hours.

Please note that the people on this forum are the minority of people that actually attend the cruise. You'll see WAY LESS people after 1:00 am than you will at 9:00 pm. Most people sleep. There are people you'll eat dinner with that you won't see the rest of the entire cruise. Everybody does their own thing. Sleep or don't sleep. It's your call. I've seen shows at 2 am with 50 people there. In a 2000 person cruise, what exactly do you think most people are doing?

This forum is a small subset and are more of the hardcore crowd. Just be aware of that.

[Blumpkin]

4-7 hours.

Please note that the people on this forum are the minority of people that actually attend the cruise. You'll see WAY LESS people after 1:00 am than you will at 9:00 pm. Most people sleep. There are people you'll eat dinner with that you won't see the rest of the entire cruise. Everybody does their own thing. Sleep or don't sleep. It's your call. I've seen shows at 2 am with 50 people there. In a 2000 person cruise, what exactly do you think most people are doing?

This forum is a small subset and are more of the hardcore crowd. Just be aware of that.

Hmm, I saw quite a bit of people during the late shows. The late hour stuff there was definitely less people, but they could've just been scattered all around the ship for all I know. So it's hard to say when the "peak" attendance period was, especially since the earliest show I saw was at 1 PM.

[Blumpkin]

I got most hours of sleep on wednesday after returning from Cayman... first one hour and a half in the form of Children of Bodom gig, then went to a one hour power nap, which turned in almost 4 and lost Kataklysm show on the pool
Then got up, got drunk again an slept two or three more hours. The rest of the days were 4 hours or less (none on last night).

That's why I don't like the idea of running on fumes the entire day. It's so easy to fall asleep in those cushy chairs in the lounges, and I'm not good at "power naps" if I've only gotten like 4 hours of sleep. I also wanted to spend more than just a couple hours in port, so I didn't want to turn that day into a time to catch up on sleep.

[Tuup]

A few 5-minutes' power naps on the couches in the theatre or in the lounge basically do it for me normally. I've been promising myself to use the bed in my cabin, but that just isn't happening.

[AlexB]

70k 2012: about 3 hours of sleep per night

BTH: first and last night without sleep, the other nights: about 2-3 hours

No powernaps, just great food, moshing, Coca-Cola and beers, lots of beers, and whisky in the evening

[Metal1529]

I heard on the last 70K, Fabio did some awesome karaoke. As a big Rhapsody fan, what are my best chances of catching some Fabio karaoke too, assuming he'll be up for it again? Was that early morning, after the shows ended?

[Stained Class]

I heard on the last 70K, Fabio did some awesome karaoke. As a big Rhapsody fan, what are my best chances of catching some Fabio karaoke too, assuming he'll be up for it again? Was that early morning, after the shows ended?

Yeah just go to karaoke, it'll happen whenever. Hopefully there will be more artist participation then there was on barge.

[doomguy]

Fabio did some pretty good Karaoke, the one song I did hear him do was with a girl, I remember it being close to about 5am because I went to bed not long after that, don't remember what day (tuesday or wednesday). That was the only time I went to the Karaoke lounge other than the final night which was an all-nighter, and I spent probably no more than an hour in there, so for me it was purely by chance. Your best bet would be to spend more time there or like Gnoff said, ask him.