The routine, as for any last day at sea, was eat; trivia (no win); pack; eat; pack most of the remainder; eat; trivia (no win and I’m sure the winners were using an electronic device – they were the day before); panic - because the last of the laundry hasn’t been returned; put the cases out (once it has arrived), and the sports bag full of vacuum packed items, for collection; eat; say our farewells to two of our table mates, our great waiters, Rocky and Jelena, our previous waiters, Stanford and Soccoro (he’d be nicknamed Socceroo if we’d been Aussies…); the Royal Variety Performance (pic is of Paul leading the Mexican wave, before his starring role as Andy Murray) and the farewell to our Welsh table mates, who hope to be in NZ in November.
In a nutshell, that was our day.
The ship was batting along in mainly smooth seas and the clocks are back 1 hour tonight to put us back onto GB time – 1 hour ahead of GMT.
For future newbie cruisers, you fill in a form the week before, saying what time you’d like to get off and a couple of days before, you get colour coded and numbered luggage tags, such as orange #2, brown #3 etc. With these tags comes an explanation of the procedure and a list of the coloured tags with the meeting place and the disembarkation times.
Elite and Platinum guests get a separate meeting point, where there is tea, coffee, juice etc. available.
So another decent cruise, though I will summarise a day or two after we have landed back in NZ. I can say that overall, apart from the more modern theatre on the Crown, we still prefer the Sun and Sea Princess, hands down, though as yet, I don’t think the Sea Princess has the International Café facility in the Atrium.
Bedtime was fairly late and the alarm is set for 6am, our expected docking time, but we have had no notification as to any changes to disembarkation times. Ours is at 8:05am, orange #2 – straight after the ‘walk off with your own luggage’ and the Princess coach tours to Gatwick and to Heathrow. Hopefully, the queue for taxis won’t be very long, as we are heading to Southampton Airport to pick up our rental car.
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