Regal Princess/At Sea
Friday, September 27, 2024
Sunny,
54F
Our
first sunny day since last Saturday in Pittsburgh! Then, early this morning,
the captain announced that he was very sorry but our trip to Dublin was
cancelled. The sea on this tender port
was too rough to safely take passengers ashore.
Apparently, some lifeboats used for tendering were lowered, but safety
is paramount, and that was that. Captain TK of the Blazebuster
for 15 years and four year Navy veteran agreed.
No
Book of Kells, no Aran sweater market, no Irish cottage pie. We won’t be
able to meet the 573,000 people we were hoping to meet. We did not have a Dublin tour scheduled
because we wanted to walk around the city, have a genuine Irish lunch, and
enjoy a city we had never visited.
After
the announcement, the crew was scrambling to arrange activities to do on the
ship—can you imagine 3600 passengers with nothing to do? At least I have books!
First
on TK’s agenda was visiting the Future Cruise agent to sign up for future
cruise vouchers. Then, shockingly, he booked an Eclipse Cruise on the Sun
Princess for August 2026 out of Southampton that includes Cherbourg,
Bilbao, Malaga, Cartagena, Gibraltar, Lisbon, and Santiago de Compostela. We need to stay healthy and truly determine
if this is what we want to do in August 2026, but there was only ONE stateroom
left in the category TK likes. Now the
room is reserved for us with a deposit, and we have until 90 days before the
cruise to cancel without any penalty and our money back. That’s my TK.
A
day at sea, why not tea? That is what we will do this afternoon.
Tomorrow,
Belfast! Let’s hope for
sun and fun!
TK's Takes: Sunniest day since we havea been here. Stuck on board with 3000 people, crowded. That's bogus, man.
Note: Even though we are off on a great vacation, we are still thinking of the hurricane in Florida, and other things that are going on in the world. We have a close friend whose home is in "The Bend" of Florida, and that area was already hit by two recent hurricanes. Others, inlcuding family, also live in Florida and we know they have been affected. Prayers all the way.
I want that eclipse cruise! But it looks like Tim took the last good cabin. lol
ReplyDeleteMaybe you'll see the Odyssey in Belfast harbor. That's the ship for "Residential Cruisers", like Randy Cassingham (author of the This Is True newsletter.) They haven't been able to leave port (last I heard) due to a boatload (pardon the pun) of details and nitpicky inspection items.
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