Today we met some old friends....well it felt like that. Actually we met them for the first time less than 2 weeks ago at our first cruise critic meeting. Having promised to arrange a second meeting, Chris and I played postman yesterday evening and delivered a suggested time to each member’s cabin. Hey presto! They nearly all turned up. Everyone looked relaxed and was in jovial mood. We shared experiences by scoring different aspects of the ship out of 10. Unsurprisingly, there were different experiences, but two main themes emerged, as follows:
Service and food were largely considered to be excellent.
Entertainmen and especially communication by Princess were not so well thought of.
Nevertheless, most of us said we would go on Grand Princess again, and there was a general feeling amongst the group that the quality of a cruise is partly what you make of it.
I’m having trouble loading photos tonight, but when this improves, the cruise critic group picture will appear below.
After 13 days at sea, I am beginning to feel institutionalised. We wake, we breakfast, we walk round the deck, we lunch, we take photos, we quiz, we dress up, we eat, we drink, we watch a show, we sleep. Occasionally, a port visit or other activity interrupts the routine, but that more or less sums it up. Today Chris and I were trying to categorize different groups of cruisers. This is what we came up with......
The Grumblers These are people who spend their whole cruise moaning about everything. It doesn’t seem to ruin their cruise, but it’s not much fun for the people with them
The Sunbed People They grab a towel and stake their place on the sun deck regardless of the weather. They stay fixed on those sunbeds risking both sunburn and hypothermia.
The Fitness Fans You never actually see these cruisers, but I am told they do exist. They rise before breakfast, spend at least an hour in the gym, eat all the healthy options onboard, treat the promenade deck like a running track, and their clothes still fit at the end of a cruise
The Serious Quizzers These people are incredibly knowledgeable, but don’t join their team and get a question wrong. They won’t let you forget it.
The Cruise Eaters I mean the real cruise eaters. They get calorific value from every meal and snack.
The Navigationally Challenged Easily spotted as they wander out of the lifts without direction. The horizontally challenged cannot differentiate between port and starboard and fore and aft. The vertically challenged always leave the lift on the wrong floor.
There’s something of me in several of these groups. Does anyone recognise a bit of themself?
Gibraltar tomorrow.
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