To pack your bags is a very bothersome task as your preparations go on for a vacation. Because it is a battle destined to fail at the end when in your bag you will discover items for which you have absolutely no need, while you will lament that you have left behind a few things you really needed.
Further, for a cruise ship vacation it is really more difficult to guess what will be necessary and what will not be so. If you have no cruising experience you will be absolutely ignorant about items to be provided during the trip and therefore high probability of your carrying over packed bags will remain. For example, could you think that in most cabins a hair dryer would normally be provided? In fact, even in many hotels that is not the case. But on consideration of the possibility of its use on ship a number of times a day it is included as a standard feature, while of the cruising luxury it remains an essential part.
Therefore decide first with great care which items can be categorized as essential ones, which ones will be helpful if you take those with you, and just for the joy of packing which items you will choose.
Among the essential things, especially...