Friday, October 22, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Final comments on the cruise
OK, I took a bit longer getting back to this than I intended. The original plan was to wrap it up a week later. I missed this deadline by 1,075 days.
Oops.
So here's the wrap-up:
The cruise was brilliant. I had high expectations, which often leads to high disappointment, but the good points well and truly outweighed the low points.
There were so many highlights - the almost surreal experience of sailing up Tracy Arm and seeing my first glacier, the joy of watching the fish merchants at Pike's Market in Seattle hurl fish at hapless tourists, the picture-perfect sail into Bora-Bora (and ringing the relatives to gloat about how "just totally amazing don't you wish you were here?" it all was), walking through a volcano crater on Hawaii, jetboating in Christchurch (as always, nowhere near fast enough for Emma, but quite fast enough for me)...
And of course the people, especially fellow guests, some of whom we are still in touch with. And while I wasn't always delighted with aspects of the cruise, generally the staff were brilliant. Which matters. Lots.
The good stuff more than made up for things like the generally execrable on-board coffee, or missing out on Fjordland due to weather.
In fact the cruse was such a great experience we've booked another one. Our holiday starts on Friday, only this time we're sailing from New York to LA via the Panama Canal, with lots of cool bits in-between.
Whic means it's time for a new blog: Brian and Emma's Great Pan-American Adventure.
http://great-panam-adventure.blogspot.com/
I'm a bit excited about this one too.
Oops.
So here's the wrap-up:
The cruise was brilliant. I had high expectations, which often leads to high disappointment, but the good points well and truly outweighed the low points.
There were so many highlights - the almost surreal experience of sailing up Tracy Arm and seeing my first glacier, the joy of watching the fish merchants at Pike's Market in Seattle hurl fish at hapless tourists, the picture-perfect sail into Bora-Bora (and ringing the relatives to gloat about how "just totally amazing don't you wish you were here?" it all was), walking through a volcano crater on Hawaii, jetboating in Christchurch (as always, nowhere near fast enough for Emma, but quite fast enough for me)...
And of course the people, especially fellow guests, some of whom we are still in touch with. And while I wasn't always delighted with aspects of the cruise, generally the staff were brilliant. Which matters. Lots.
The good stuff more than made up for things like the generally execrable on-board coffee, or missing out on Fjordland due to weather.
In fact the cruse was such a great experience we've booked another one. Our holiday starts on Friday, only this time we're sailing from New York to LA via the Panama Canal, with lots of cool bits in-between.
Whic means it's time for a new blog: Brian and Emma's Great Pan-American Adventure.
http://great-panam-adventure.blogspot.com/
I'm a bit excited about this one too.
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