- go through security again
- run about 1 mile more
- find out that the plane to Hartford would not leave because there were no passengers yet
- run to the bathroom (the plane does not have one)
- jump into the plane
- don’t care anymore.
Folks, to whoever reads this; if I tell you that I still love Canadians, make a correction for Air Canada. Fly through Seattle.
As for the ship itself I don’t think that is was classier than the big ones in Royal Caribbean. Through the whole first day the air inside was unhealthy. It was also very humid inside. And smell, oh my God! Not only on that first day but every morning there was a smell of toilet and toilet chemicals all over the hallways. The crew people were running around all day long with cans of some disinfectant and poured it on everything so it always seemed to me that I was eating, drinking and breathing Windex. There were some sculptures but not that many. Apparently the management considered that there would be many old people (and there were!) so there was not much ingenuity in entertainment. The entertainment cruise director was a matron who called herself Cher. Of course if she was real Cher I would have nothing against her but she wasn’t, sorry. People should not call themselves by the names of great celebrities. Poodles Eisenstein, the comedian maybe enjoys his California home (as it was said in the newsletter) but I did not enjoy him. His jokes were boring and repetitive. There was also a ventriloquist with his black doll advertised as Brungilda from Jamaica. What Jamaica has to do with Alaska? Brungilda had some personal problems because she had only one topic on her mind. Make your guess. Correct, men.
Did I mention the smell? There was also the sound. I could hear every toilet flushed from the Deck 1 to Deck 10. What a symphony!
We were told that food on the ship was supposed to be better than the one on the Royal Caribbean. It wasn’t. In fact it was worse. And I know why- it wasn’t fresh. Folks, if the food on the ship is not fresh, it shows. It means it will be overcooked, over frozen and overdone so that there would be no taste. No taste! Coffee and tea were obviously flowing through the rusty tubes and you could taste the rust. Juice glasses looked suspiciously foggy. Did they use Windex there too? The Buffet in the Ocean View Café was very predictable: first three days scrambled eggs were eggs and then they became more like scrambled water. Oatmeal… I could lubricate my lawnmower with it. Salads could as well be made of spruce - the taste would be the same. Salmon was perfect - the one and only relief. We tried the Japanese buffet once but it tasted as if you chewed on an anchor cable. There was this European café (for extra money). I tried it. The only European thing there was the silverware. The deadly taste of burned coffee was so familiar! So was the view of the ‘Danish’. Prince Hamlet would commit suicide if he saw those. There was one exception- a perfect place to eat was that Healthy Café in the solarium area. Its menu was limited but so fresh, so full, so good. And it was healthy!
They had a Royal Buffet at midnight and it was less impressive than the ones on Royal Caribbean. There was no caviar. There were no olives. There was a very limited amount of fruits. We made the photos and let it pass.
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