Day 8 at sea our second Tuesday 26 February crossed the dateline
Bit of a sleep in this morning, late breakfast and no
lunch for us today because we’re going to enjoy the traditional afternoon tea
in the Queens room this afternoon. The weather is beautiful today, calm seas,
warm ocean breeze and lots of sunshine. We’re feeling very tropical.
Thought I must tell you a bit about the accommodation on
board. We are extremely happy with our cabin;
we would not hesitate to book it again.
There is plenty of cupboards and draw space; we even have two large
draws under the end of the bed. Our cabin has a glass fronted balcony; we are
toward the aft of the ship on deck 4. The balconies have an opening door not
sliding door. If you book a forward balcony from 4001 – 4042 you would get a metal
closed in balcony, so you would only see the view if you were standing up on
the balcony. This is necessary for the
forward cabins due to certain weather affecting the forward area of the
ship.
Our bathroom is compact but is well appointed with a
high pressure shower. I have found that
there isn’t enough room on the shelving in the shower itself so I bought one of
those suction containers and it now holds the shampoo and conditioner nicely.
The safe in our cabin is very large with enough room for
a laptop and/or iPad plus the normal bits and pieces. You could even put a handbag in there. The
refrigerator is a good size and works very well keeping everything well
chilled. I read someone’s review saying that there is no control for the
temperature in the cabin…..that isn’t correct… there is a temperature control
and it works very well to keep the cabin at the temperature you prefer. Room
service is complimentary up until midnight then there is a minimal charge
between that time and 6.00am.
This ship does not have an interactive TV to access your
account information. The girls reading this will be pleased because they can
now happily shop without wondering if dear husband isn’t lying on the bed with
the ‘Account page’ up on the TV screen watching what you spend….lol.
Love the Promenade deck.
We walked right around this morning. It even gives you a view right over
and down the back of the ship from Deck 3.
I will take a pic next time we do that walk. Would love to be putting
photos up on here whilst at sea but it is way too slow to upload a photo. The internet itself hasn’t been too slow as
long as I pick my time to go online.
We do like the radio at sea program they have on board
every afternoon from 5.00pm, called Live@five. They take requests and have competitions
for all guests on board. There have been some great requests of all types of music
from the decades. Perfect to put in a request to Mark, turn the TV up loud, sit
out on the balcony listening to our requested song watching the sun set over
the ocean with a nice glass of Sav Blanc in hand before getting ready to go
down for another pre-dinner drink and dance then off to the restaurant at
8.30pm.
No housework, no driving, no supermarket shopping, no
cooking, no cleaning, no making the bed...ah bliss… J Can you tell I’m feeling
very relaxed and in holiday mode now… J
I picked up the 2014 brochures today and see that Cunard
have some great itineraries for next year from Australia and New Zealand for
all three Cunard ships so there’s a good choice of both itinerary and the three
ships. I’m beginning to sound like a Travel Agent now….lol.
P.S. What a surprise, I’ve won todays competition on
Live@five and now have a nice Cunard bag and some other goodies. J
