Well today we headed for the ship full of anticipation and excitement. The trip down to the border was only 40 mins but the wait for the coaches to get through customs was about 3 hours. For each coach ahead of you, you should allocate about 30 mins for them to get through. Luckily for us we got away from Vancouver quite speedily and so only had 2 big coaches and a wee coach in front of us. In the immigration office we had 2 lots of fingerprints and our photo taken. My fingertips must be a bit battered from all the creams and moisturisers I use as it took ages to get mine done. Chris on the other hand went through after me to another desk and was though the x-ray before I was done! We weren’t expecting such a long transfer from the border into Seattle but we think it took another 2 and ¾ hours. Owen put a video on but it was definitely one for the oldies - Out to Sea or something like that.
We hit Seattle downtown around 11.30am and got a wee tour of the touristy bits it seemed very similar to Vancouver. We’ll get a chance to have an explore of the city we get back from the cruise as we changed our hotel stays to included a night in Seattle before we head back to Vancouver. We found out a couple of days back that Fly Globespan cancelled our original flight so we are now leaving on Wednesday flighing back via Calgary and Manchester and get into Glasgow around 11am on the Thursday 18th. We were lucky we didn’t book through Zoom as they have ceased operations and cancelled all flights. Any way back to Seattle and the Ship. The embarkation process we easy and quick we got a couple of pics going up the gangway.
We didn’t get any upgrades or anything (boo hiss), in fact we haven’t had any perks yet I’m a bit disappointed. I have to say first impressions are that the ships not as spectacular as I thought it would be the rooms a bit pokey and people next door us are smokers. The smoking things a bit weird as there’s so called designated areas for them but this seems to be widely ignored. You’re not supposed to smoke in your room but can on the balconies. There’s plenty of storage space in the cabins so I got us unpacked and the bags hidden away. You have to pay for all drinks even soft drinks, so paid $30 to get unlimited soft drinks. The price of the cocktails and wine isn’t too bad either. We set sail just after 4pm and got a good view of the Seattle skyline as we sailed out of port.
I have to say for all of you who told me you can’t feel the boat moving and won’t get sea sick, wants to get themselves on this ship. Head spin time! Hopefully it’ll get better, I have my travel pills with me.
We are on anytime dining which means we can pick where and when we eat we decided to get a table for just the two of us tonight as we were both a bit tiered. The foods ok, menu fairly varied and if you so desire you can have about 5 courses! We had a little wander around the ship after eating but gave in to the tiredness and had an early night.
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