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Canadianturtle#1
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Feb 2013
Cabin: Balcony

We are a group of four adults. My husband and I are 51 and 53 respectively. We travelled with my parents who are 72 and 75. We are all Canadians from the western provinces. This trip was our second with Princess Cruises and for my parents, their first. We started planning this trip nearly a year ago. we choose it based on the itinary as a trip to South America allowed us to check an item off our bucket list. We can now say that we have seen the entire continent of the Americas.

We travelled from our home province to Toronto, Ontario, Canada by plane and then onward to Santiago Chile. This trip is not for the faint of heart. It is a long flight of nearly 12 hours. Although the time change is only three hours for us,the flight length is considerable. From our departure point until the time we arrived at our hotel in Santiago we were 35 hours in transit.

we booked two days pre-cruise at the Intercontinental Hotel in Santiago Chile through Princess Cruise lines. We also booked a transfer package with the cruise line. This worked out really well for us. Princess met us at the airport and took us to the hotel. The Intercontinental Hotel is a lovely, newer hotel located in downtown Santiago. The rooms had two double beds, a spacious bathroom with all the amenities and a lovely seating area. The Princess reps were at the hotel each day and where able to provide information on tours and city sites as well as nearby restaurants and bars. The hotel provided a free breakfast each morning which had a wide variety of both hot and cold foods. we booked a city tour and a wine country tour through a private agency to help us to explore Santiago and were not disappointed. The tour company picked us up on time and provided a very good tour of the city for us on our arrival day. we were able to customize the tour and even got to go to a hand craft market. The next day we did a 7.5 hour wine country tour which included a private tasting at two vineyards. This was very nice. The vineyards provided knowledgeable staff who taught us much about the wines of Chile. Of course we also purchased some wines which were excellent.

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