The Bliss Cruise: Day One

Monday March 20th, 2017

As part of our hotel package we had free reservations already set up to take the shuttle to the port at 11 am. Maria got up a little before me and went down at around 9am. There was supposed to be a free breakfast. But it was already over. So much for that. We were supposed to get a complimentary lunch as part of our "concierge class" room however on the ship. We just wanted to get on the boat and get started!

Maria pointed out however that it would be hours before we got on board and would be able to eat lunch. She knew that we would probably be standing in long lines and she didn't want me to get hangry. She knows me well. I had also barely eaten the night before and I was already hungry. So we found a bagel place within walking distance and went there and ordered some bagel breakfast sandwiches and tea. My nerves seemed to be gone and I ate every bite. Then we walked back to the hotel and went back to our room for a bit.

We got everything ready and packed up and headed down to the lobby to wait. There were a few other people around us who were waiting as well. I was really curious about who might be going on the same cruise as us? One of the groups was a family. They weren't going on the same cruise! I looked over at the next table and there was a young couple. She had blue hair (again!?) and his arm was in a sling. I peeked at their luggage and their luggage tags said "Bliss Cruise". Yup! Another couple like us.  Soon enough it was time to get on the shuttle and head over.

When we got on our shuttle bus the driver asked us what cruise we were going on. We said Celebrity Summit. Right after us two older African-American ladies got on the van as well. I assumed they weren't going on the same cruise as us?! Then another couple showed up. A 3sum actually. One of the ladies was tall and skinny and dressed in a super short mini skirt. She sat down next to me and the van was full. We were on our way!

The hot lady with the mini skirt seemed way out of my league but one of the things we said was that we would try to force ourselves to be more social. To talk to people more. So I started to chat her up. I tried to be discreet but I said something like, "it looks to me like you're going on the same cruise as us?" and then it was pretty easy. Yes. She and her hubby and their friend were going on the cruise. We did a fairly good job of keeping it discreet and not being too obvious around the other people in the van. It was sort of flirty and sexy and a fun way to get it all started. (In hindsight it occurs to me that I never saw any of those folks again. There were so many people on the cruise.)

Soon enough we were at the port and the van driver let us off. There were guys ready to take our luggage so they could take it onboard. They were expecting a tip. We were directed to go inside a big building. We only had our tickets and passports and IDs on us at this point. In theory our luggage would be delivered to our cabin after we got on board. They made us go through a security check like an airport and we had to show our tickets. Then we got in line. We were in a "special" line because we were in "concierge" class. We're still not sure it went any faster than the other lines. There were hundreds if not thousands of people in the room. It reminded me of Disney mixed with the lines at O'Hara. It took us about an hour to finally get to the front.

While we were in line the people watching started. Wow. So many hot people. So many types. Young and old. Skinny and curvy. It reminded me of a typical swingers club on Sat night but times 100. A bunch of couples were already chatting it up. Some seemed to recognize old friends. Some were making new friends already. We saw a few couples near us that we thought were totally hot. But we were too shy to say anything. There was one couple that was about 10 couples behind us so when the lines would snake around they were near us. They were around our age. He had longer grey hair and a casual jacket. She was long curly red hair and a nice curvy body. One of our few regrets is that we didn't say hello. But they also could have said hello to us?

We did chat with a few couples around us and soon enough we were at the front of the line. The next check in agent was ready and we stepped up to the counter. We gave her our names and we showed her out tickets and passports. She printed out plastic cards with our names and cabin number and drink plans on them. We were ready to board the ship! We still had to walk through a big hall area. There were folks from the Bliss Cruise there with bags for everyone full of swinger swag. We got an SLS pen, some chap stick, a white board for our door, and some official SLS condoms!

They had a big board set up with a picture of the boat and they were directing all the couples to get their pix taken. We later found out that they were selling for $25 for a single pic and a bunch more for the "package". No thank you!

Then it was up a big escalator and down a hall. We could finally see the ship. It looked HUGE! We could see the gangway onto the ship. Soon enough we were going across and we were in the ship. It was a little disorienting at first because he had no idea where we were. We seemed to be in a central area with bars all around that were already full of couples talking and drinking. We decided to just start walking around.

We thought we would start by looking for our cabin. We went up to the 8th floor and figured out which way to go. But soon enough we ran into a big sign that said something like "Cabins not ready yet". We were supposed to get a free lunch with our cabin but we weren't sure where to go or what time it was. We had also heard that the buffet area was open so we decided we would check that out.

I should have perhaps mentioned that since we were still in port we were still able to use our cell phones and message and text other people. We sent a message to Todd and Diana and Jean and Bob to let them know that we would be down in the buffet area grabbing some lunch. They said they would try to find us and meet us there.

We found the buffet area and it was pretty nice! Soups and salads and bread and cheeses and a carving station and Indian food and Asian food. We both filled up our plates and found a table that could seat a few more people. The food wasn't fantastic but it was good. Soon enough Todd and Diana and Jean and Bob found us and we finished lunch together. We all admitted that we were feeling a little overwhelmed.

We all decided to talk a quick tour around the boat and explore. We decided we would check out the pool deck. We figured out which way to go and found our way to there. Once again it was already packed. It seemed that the veteran cruisers knew to wear bathing suits while getting on board and heading straight for the pool deck. Because we were still docked and at the port nudity wasn't allowed yet. In fact there was a rule that you couldn't be nude in the nude areas unless the boat was more than 2 miles off shore. They made an announcement! We noticed our friends Barb and Dan in one of the hot tubs. They were talking to one of the other couples that we had been chatting with on KiK. We said hello and explored some more.

We made our way to the front of the ship and then sort of looped around. We walked all the way around the top deck. One of the other things we talked about was that we wanted to check out the aft orgy deck. We had an orgy planned for Tuesday night there so we wanted to see what the space looked like. We walked around to the back of the ship. We noticed that already a lot of the deck chairs were full of ladies in their skimpy bikinis sunning themselves. So much eye candy already! It was fun to just look at all the sexy people all around us.

The orgy area was supposed to be on deck 12 in the aft area. We made our way to the back of the ship, found some stairs going up, and found the area. It was amazing. There was a huge LED movie screen that was showing ocean nature films. Later it would be showing porn. There were a bunch of comfortable couches to sit on all around the side. In the middle were two sets of beds where they had put together four king size mattresses to make a nice big area to play on with a bunch of people. There were also a row of these wooden shack sort of things that had one open side and a big king size mattress inside. Someone later called them the fuck huts. A perfect name!

It looked like the perfect spot for an orgy! But I had another problem. We still hadn't gotten to our cabin. Our luggage was supposed to be delivered to our cabin. In our luggage was our sunscreen. I could tell that I was already getting a burn. I needed to get out of the sun. We all decided that we would go and see if our cabins were ready yet. Jean and Bob went off on their own while Todd and Diana decided they would go with us first so they could see what our cabin looked like. We went back inside the ship and figured out how to get back down to deck 8 where our cabin was. This time we didn't see the door closed with a sign on it. It was open so we assumed we could go to our cabin.

We walked back towards the back of the ship and found our room. We swiped the cards and went inside. It was nice! We had paid a little extra to get a cabin at the very back of the ship. We would be looking over the back deck and would be able to see the wake of the ship. The room was a small but larger than I imagined actually. It was nice. Our deck was really nice. We had a table with four seats and then two deck chairs. Plenty of room. Todd and Diana decided that they would go and check out their room. The only problem we had was that they still hadn't delivered our luggage. We had noticed that a bunch of the other cabins around us had their luggage outside their doors but not us.

We chilled for a bit and relaxed. We had done it! We were on board the swingers cruise! We had paid our first downpayment practically a year before. We had been anticipating this for long. We were finally here! We hugged each other and I gave Maria a deep and long kiss. We were really happy to finally be on board!

We heard a knock on our door and it was Jean and Bill. They had come to say hello and see our cabin as well. They had signed up for the cruise only about three weeks beforehand so they were only able to get one of the last remaining cabins in the "steerage" as they called it. An internal room with no windows. They were shocked when they saw our cabin. It was SO much bigger than theirs. They said our deck area was probably bigger than their whole room. We were even happier that we had taken the plunge and paid a little more for a really nice cabin. At one point I took one more peak out our door. Our luggage had arrived! Jean and Bill took that as a cue to go back to their own cabin to see if their luggage had arrived. We got our stuff inside and unpacked. Now we we really felt like we were good to go!

Soon enough it was 2pm and time for the obligatory Muster. We were to meet at the Rendezvous Lounge. The Muster is the safety drill. Gotta know what to do if there's a problem and we need to go to the life boats. This was our first cruise so we wanted to pay attention. The room was full of swingers though. People were chatting it up. Once again it seemed like we were surrounded by so many beautiful people. Right next to us was another thin hot lady with blue hair. What was up with the blue hair?! Was it some sort of code/signal?! We also noticed the hot couple we had seen in line earlier near us. The lady with the red curly hair. Once again we wanted to say hello but they were on the other side of a partition and it was really crowded and full. We never saw them again! That was one of the things we learned on the cruise. You sort of had to be bold and seize the moment. Because you might not ever get that chance again. But we also learned there there was so much going on that we were able to more or less "go with the flow" and things happened naturally.

After the Muster Maria and I headed back to our room. The ship was supposed to leave at 4pm and I wanted to watch. I was really curious what it would feel like once we started moving. Maria was still worried that she would get motion sickness and had already put a patch on behind her ear. I was a little worried and didn't take any meds. I had only ever had a problem on a boat once and it was a really small one. Soon enough I could see the guys taking the huge ropes off of the dock. We started to move really slowly at first. There we a few other couples on their decks as well checking out the view. We were able to say hello to our next door neighbors. There were interested in going to our orgy on Tuesday night. There was a guy standing on his deck a floor below us. He had on a bright red "Make America Great Again" hat. All of a sudden I noticed the couple to the left of us. The lady was one of the hottest most beautiful ladies I had ever seen. Super pretty with long dark curly hair, brown skin, and amazing breasts with pierced nipples. I couldn't tell if her breasts were real or enhanced? Either way they were spectacular. She flashed me a huge bright smile. Then she noticed the guy below us with the Trump hat and said, "Woo! Make America great again! Yeah!" Fuck...  popped that bubble real fast!

I had wondered if we would run into Trump people? This was so weird for me/us! We just never run into people like that in our scene here in Chicago. Yes. We totally live in a liberal bubble.

There was a Meet and Greet at 4:30 that we wanted to go to. It was a Meet and Greet for first time cruisers. We were planning on meeting Todd and Diana and Jean and Bill there. It turned out to be pretty interesting and we learned some good tips. The big one was to check the schedule that they would leave in our room each day. Go through it and circle what we wanted to do the next day. It seems obvious but it helped. We all talked about the rest of the night. First of all we all agreed that it was so nice to have met each other online beforehand. It was nice to feel like we knew some people on board. We agreed that we would meet for dinner at 7:30 at the main restaurant. Then we would check out the "Green" party and then hopefully check out the orgy deck after that!

We split back up and we headed back to our cabin. It had already been a long day. When we got back to our cabin we discovered that they had left the schedule they had just talked about and some chocolates on our pillows. I had gotten a little sunburn that always makes me tired. So we decided to take a nap together. But first when we got back to the cabin we got naked and fucked! We were both worked up from looking at all the sexy people and thinking about having more fun later that night. Then we both crashed. Naked in each other's arms.

I suppose I should mention that when we laid down we could both feel the ship rocking back and forth. Very slowly but you could feel it when you were laying down. I liked it. But Maria was a little worried about it. As it turned out we had no trouble sleeping once we got used to it.

Soon enough my alarm went off and it was time to go to dinner. We were told that men were supposed to dress in a shirt with a collar so I put on one of my "nice" shirts. The one with the green stripes so I was ready for green night. We got there a little before our friends and watched the beautiful swinger couples arrive. A LOT of the ladies were dressed in super short club sort of skirts. Lots of cleavage and long legs and high heels. Sure enough, just like we had been warned, there was someone by the door leading into the dining room handing out towels to any lady wearing a super short dress. It cracked us up! But very practical.

Todd and Diana arrived first and then we waited a bit for Jean and Bob. (This turned out to be a repeating pattern!) We told the person at the entrance that we were a party of six. They asked us if we would mind another couple joining us and we said "sure!". They led us to a big table for eight. After a few more minutes another couple joined us. We all introduced ourselves to them. Felix and Martha were from Vancouver. This was their first cruise as well. They were a super hot couple and seemed to be our age. Felix was Asian. Very handsome and Martha was thin and super pretty with long dark hair. She was wearing a very sexy top that barely covered her breasts. She was sitting right next to me and it was hard for me to not stare!

They were also just a lovely and interesting couple. They were both in education so we had a fair amount to talk about. The only "problem" however for us was that they were the dreaded "soft" swingers. They admitted that they would do everything with other people except for intercourse. That was their limit. To be honest they were so hot that we would have done that with them! We gave them our card with our names and cabin number. I didn't think much would come of it but I was hopeful. Sure enough we never heard from them again.

But dinner was great! We really enjoyed the company and the food. You were able to order an appetizer, a main course, and then dessert and coffee. One of the tips we had read beforehand was that you could also order multiple appetizers and even main courses if you wanted. It was all included in the price. That first night I got the french onion soup, a steak, and two different scoops of ice cream for dessert. Once again it wasn't fantastic but it was really good. It also took a LONG time. About an hour and a half for the whole meal. We really enjoyed it. We really enjoyed the company and talking. But I had also heard the phrase beforehand on one of the message boards, "the dining room. where dreams go to die!" I understood that a little better.

After dinner Felix and Martha headed off while the rest of us talked about plans for the rest of the night. The theme party for the night was "Green". Every night there was a different theme party. Some of them we were more excited about than others. We heard that the Glow party in particular was a lot of fun. Maria had ordered a skin tight green body suit so we wanted to go back to our room so she could change. We agreed that we would meet at 9pm at the pool deck where the Green party was supposed to start. We went back to our cabin and Maria changed into her green thing while I changed back into shorts but kept my green striped shirt on.

I thought Maria looked amazing in her green thing. Basically a skin tight body suit that showed off every curve and you could see her nipples a bit. It was hot! We had by this time sort of figured out our way around the ship and we went to the front of the ship to the pool deck. It didn't take us long to find our friends. The green party was pretty much as we expected/feared. Pumping techno music and lots of hot young people dancing. We went to the side and talked...

We all decided that we thought it would be fun to explore the ship some more and see what was going on. We could check out the dance party later if we wanted. We wandered towards the front of the boat. There were some stairs going up so we went up. We found a big lounge/bar area called the (???? Lounge). It looked nice. There were windows looking over the front of the ship. It was also completely empty! We were the only ones there. We went up to the front the check out the view. We discovered that at night you couldn't see a thing. It was just darkness ahead.

So we decided to leave and go check out the orgy space at the back of the boat. We wanted to see if anything was going on. Just as we were leaving another couple, should I say a 3sum arrived. They were doing the same thing. Exploring. They seemed really cool and nice and we started to chat. It was two ladies and a guy. Perhaps a little younger than ourselves? One of the ladies seemed to be Latino and had a nice curvy body with nice big breasts. The other lady had long blond hair and a nice tight body in a see through white lace body stocking. You could see her pink nipples sticking out. The guy had an average body, was pretty good looking, and just seemed like a nice guy.

They were from San Francisco. They were all friends with benefits and not in a relationship together or anything. Just on the cruise to have fun. The curvy lady grumped that earlier in the evening a creepy guy had fondled her breasts and pinched her nipples without asking. We talked a little about consent and I asked her if she minded if I felt her breasts? She said "sure!" We laughed about how if you only ask first good things can happen! We told them about the orgy we were planning for the next night and they told us they might join us. We gave them one of our cards with our cabin number. Then we told them we were headed off to the orgy area at the front of the boat. We hoped that we would run into them again.

The six of us walked all the way around the top deck again to the back area where the orgy deck. We walked the same way we had gone earlier in the day when the sun was out. It was interesting to go at night now. You could look up and see a full canopy of stars. Off to one side of the ship you could see some islands. I think they were the Florida Keys?

We got back to the orgy area and it was going on...  Every single one of the "fuck huts" were full and there were couples in a bunch of the couches....  the huge LED movie screen was showing porno now. It was a beautiful night. A slight breeze in the air. Mid 70's. The stars above. The six of us ended up sitting on one of the couches together. We talked a little more and snuggled and touched each other. We also kept an eye on the fuck huts.

After about 15 minutes we noticed that the couple who were in the one closest to us got up and left. Maria and I checked it out. The Bliss cruise staff were soon by with new sheets. They cleaned off the mattress and put on new sheets and we claimed the hut for ourselves. Todd and Diana joined us. We were a little disappointed that Jean and Bob stayed on the couch and watched us. They told us they were still nervous about all of this and might join in.

In the meantime Maria and I and Todd and Diana took off our clothes. We were ready to play! The night air felt perfect. We got on the bed and soon enough it was blow job time! Diana started to suck me while Maria sucked Todd. We were soon both very hard and enjoying ourselves. I looked up and could see the stars through the slats in the room of the hut we were in. A cool breeze. Moans and groans all around me. This was amazing!

After she sucked me some I wanted to eat Diana's pussy. I got between her legs and started to lick her pussy lips and clit. She was soon moaning and told me how good I was. I looked over and Todd was pulling out a condom and soon enough he was fucking Maria from behind. She started to cum hard. I put on a condom myself and Diana started to ride me. Both ladies were starting to cum hard now.

Then Todd did something I wasn't expecting. He pulled out of Maria and put on another condom. He moved behind Diana so he could DP her along with me. I was a little worried about Maria not getting attention but I was on the bottom, I couldn't really move, so I just went with the flow. I felt Todd enter Diana's ass. It was hot. I love DP. We in a great position. He was able to enter her and started to move in and out. I stayed still at first but then started to move in and out myself. Diana was loving it! We fucked her for a long time like that it seemed. One of the best DPs I've ever pulled off. It was amazing.

Then it was a little weird. Both of us guys were pooped. We needed a break. Almost too much stimulation? We pulled out and rolled on our backs. We pulled off our condoms. Maria and Diana tried to revive us but it seemed like we were spent for the time being. I wanted to see if I could make Maria squirt so I started to finger her very wet pussy. Sure enough she started to squirt hard. She was very worked up from all of the excitement that night. Todd and Diana watched while I made her gush. She soaked the sheet on the bed.

Jean and Bob were sitting on one of the couches watching us. We went over to talk to them. They said that they had gotten so worked up watching the four of us that they had played on one of the orgy beds while watching us. He had only lasted about one minute though! Maria and I were still a little wired. We told our friends that we wanted to explore a little more. Todd and Diana wanted to chill and talk to Jean and Bob some more so we split ways and promised that we would keep in touch.

Maria and I had talked earlier and we wanted to at least peek into the other play areas and see what they were like. We decided that we would first check out the Solarium. It was all the way back at the front part of the ship. On the deck under the pool deck. There was supposed to be an open orgy area there as well.

We found the entrance and were told that you could only be nude inside. They had bags for you to put your clothes in. That was fine with us so we got naked and put our clothes in the bag and went inside. It looked like an interesting space. It had a sun roof on the top but was otherwise enclosed. We could go there during the day and not get a bad sunburn. There were a couple of hot tubs and a nice salt water pool. Around the pool there were mattresses set up for group play. There was a small group playing on one of the mattresses around the pool. One of the guys looked up and said, "Hey you guys! You're setting up the orgy tomorrow night right?" They were coming to our orgy. They invited us to join them. We were tempted but we were also still worn out. So we told them that we were just checking things out but we were looking forward to seeing them at our orgy!

We looked around some more. On each side of the room there were mattresses set up with canopies and curtains around them. It looked like some people had their curtains closed and some had their's open. Interesting and obvious and something that looked like a lot of fun! There were people playing all around us.

We however had one more play area that we wanted to check out. The Fetish room. We left the Solarium and pulled our clothes out of our bag and got dressed. The Fetish room was located in the Conference room down on deck 3. Soon enough we found it and walked in.

Another interesting area. There were three benches set up. There was also a frame to tie someone up and a St Andrews cross. The Dom lady we had seen the day before at the Meet and Greet at the hotel was using a paddle on a guy in the cross. There was a row of beds along one wall with curtains around them. Each bed had bondage cuffs at the top and the bottom. There was a table along one wall that was full of bondage equipment and toys. Floggers, whips, paddles, ticklers... There were also a lot of people just standing around and watching and giggling. While we thought we could have some fun there but we were beat. We decided to call it a night and head back to our cabin.

It had been a long day. We felt like we had really discovered a bunch of the ship. It had been a lot of fun! An amazing first day of our cruise. We also knew we could sleep in. Tuesday was going to be a day all day on the sea. We went back to our cabin and crashed. We both slept really well...