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- 23 mag 2024, 19:41
- 🌬 8 °C
- Altitudine: Livello del mare
- Greenland Sea 64°23’11” N 22°40’52” W
Today is Boarding Day
23 maggio, Greenland Sea ⋅ 🌬 8 °C
This morning has started slow for me, I have a bad headache, and my stomach is not behaving. I'm not sure if I picked up a bug on the airplane/airport or something I ate. Laura is on her own for todays adventures. This is not a problem for Laura, who likes to shop and browse. I haven't mentioned much about our hotel but I will now. We have stayed at the Midtown Hotel. It is very centrally located to all the touristy stuff. The room is very clean and bright. However, this is a self check-in hotel. That means that you get a code the day before for use while you are there. This is much easier for travelers who come at odd hours and have to check out at night, I guess. All communications are done by e-mail or through the Booking app. I do prefer to have a real person to talk to. There is no one at the front desk to ask for restaurant suggestions, etc. Communicating through e-mail is not timely and impersonal. I needed to get late check out because I wasn't feeling good, so trying to negotiate this over email was tedious. They also charged an arm and a leg between the early check-in and late check out.
We finally got to go to the ship to board. The weather is overcast but not railing yet. The ship is huge! So is the line to get in. We did book a time slot for boarding, but I don't think it made a difference. I think next time I will board later around 3 pm. We are boarding the Norweigian Prima. It is a new ship in NCL's newest class of ship.. It has 18 floors, with a water slide that goes over the side of the ship and then comes back in. Other than waiting in line for security, our boarding goes off nicely. You enter the atrium and are greeted with elagance and subdued sofistication. The colours are shades of creams and beige. The lighting is in gold metal in different patterns. Our room is on the 15th floor, closer to the front of the ship. We have a balcony so that we can see the fjords as we come in and out. This type of trip where the scenery is the destination means that you just have to have a balcony to enjoy the views. Our cabin is very spacious with more than enough storage. It is always amazing how these ships can pack so much into so little. We grab something to eat up on deck 17. The weather has turned a bit and we now have a light rain. We then head back to our cabin to see if our luggage has arrived. We unpack and gather ourselves before heading out for dinner.
We have dinner in The Commodore restaurant for dinner. Laura has celiac disease (no wheat, rye, or barley), so it is safer for her to eat in restaurants as opposed to the buffets where cross contamination can occur. I had the French onion soup with the talapia. Laura had the ceasar salad and roast chicken. Both were delicious. Afterward, I headed back to the cabin to make it an early night. While Laura headed down to the main atrium for some music. We have a tour tomorrow morning, so it is off to bed for me.Leggi altro
Oh no that sucks [Karen]