We disembark today.
Been a great cruise with calm seas, great friends and met some wonderful new people I hope we will see again. Norbet, the GM and one of my favourite waiters, Melden and his helper Joseph have all been amazing. Food has been good, consumed more lobster than ever before. Sorry we did not take a lot of pictures. We stayed onboard on several port days as we did these ports on a Carribean cruise earlier this year.
On December 10th we come back to Miami for the Chistening of the Grandeur followed by a 3 day cruise to get acquainted with the ship. Then on December 29 we leave for NZ with time with family before we embark on the Explorer for three cruises back to back. The Auckland to Sydney cruise. Sydney to Singapore cruise. Singapore to Hong Kong Cruise. Longest time we have ever been on a ship.
We had not intended to do the Sydney to Singapore cruise. But to stay on board cut out 2 long distance flights with the associated jet lag and we got a ton of miles back. Seemed the sensible thing to do. The two hosted cruises have a lot of guests but the cruise I added that was not hosted and it is a small number of guests. So it will be interesting to see how we like this additional cruise. We really enjoy our hosted dinners, meeting new people and seeing old friends. This cruise will be totally different for us not hosting every night. We may love it and be like a regular guest or we may miss having the dinners with old friends and meeting new people.
