We’re back on Victoria for the first time since our Western Med cruise back in 2018, and back in Britannia for the first time since the post Covid “Cruise to Nowhere” in 2021. We took this short cruise because we needed three more days to reach the Diamond loyalty tier and we are off on another QV cruise in a couple of weeks and the extra benefits provided by being diamond would be welcome. Because this was a short cruise my theory was we wouldn’t need much luggage so it would be a good time to try getting the train
Year: 2023
The clocks went forward overnight, which meant that when I woke up I was a little confused about what time it actually was my watch said seven am, and I assumed that because my watch was tied to my Garmin account and GPS time it would not change. so I started bustling around the room thinking it was actually eight am and needed to get ready for breakfast. Needless to say Jane was annoyed to be woken at seven and I was told to get back to bed. It was a glorious morning, flat calm seas and a cloud free
Jane had asked Cecilia, our cabin steward, if they could have a look at the air-con yesterday, as the room was too warm for a lady of a certain age. I can report that it’s fixed because it was freezing overnight and I was fully wrapped up in the duvet when I woke this morning. I’m really enjoying being in a Britannia cabin on this cruise, yes the stateroom is slightly smaller than the PG stateroom and you don’t get free bottled water delivered every day, but I do have a shower that comes up past my chest and as
I had a disturbed night with a work call from Asia at 02:45, I informed them I was on holiday and to speak to my colleague and tried to get back to sleep, which took a while. I woke for a second time at 08:30 to a grey old Amsterdam morning, and promptly managed to knock over my water glass trying to turn on the bedside light. Today was not starting well! Nicely showered we headed down to the MDR for breakfast, there was a queue for the first time on the voyage, probably because we’d departed Amsterdam earlier and
Our returning berth had been changed from the Mayflower to the Queen Elizabeth cruise terminal. Our only experience of this terminal was not a good one with train movements causing traffic chaos and extensive delays to cars arriving at the terminal. So naturally we were worried since our train was scheduled for 10:30 and our disembarkation time was 09:40. Normally plenty of time to collect our bags and get to the station but in the circumstances we were concerned. It turned out that it wasn’t an issue, our 09:40 turned out to be an 09:10 with an announcement for all