Marella Spirit Review
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After enjoying a great cruise on Thomson Spirit last year to the Baltic, my wife and I were attracted to this cruise to Norway primarily because it sails from Newcastle so there would be no flying, and it was a new country for us to visit.
The main attraction though was that this cruise was to go up into the Arctic circle and visit North Cape and see the Midnight Sun.
We arrived in Newcastle by car and headed to the International terminal there we found everything signposted for Thomson Cruise and we were shown where to drop off our luggage and then directed to the car park. There was a shuttle bus from the car park to the terminal and the check in desks.
Cabin Review
Our cabin (which we had last year) which was on deck 4 and was an outside cabin was very quiet. The cabin had two single beds arranged in an "L" formation and a large porthole/window. The room was quite spacious,surprisingly bigger than our previous cruise ships. The wardrobe space was very good, two quite large wardrobes with plenty of coat hangers. Shelves above for small luggage and room for some luggage in the bottom. There is also a safe which has to be rented if required. There is also lots of room under the beds for suitcases etc.
There is a dressing table with three drawers each side and in one of the drawers there is a hair dryer. There is a 220V and a 110V socket above the dressing table. Remembering last year, we took one of those square sockets, that takes a couple of appliances, to plug into the ships mains socket, as some phone chargers will not fit due to the shape of the charger plug. On the other side of the cabin were three large drawers and a container for wine or other bottles.The cabin had a TV with Sky News, BBC World News, Sky Sports News, two movie channels, ship channels and some other channels.
The bathroom was very good with plenty of room and an easy to operate shower.Still no tea/coffee making facilities though in this cabin.The cabin was kept very clean by our cabin staff. There was either an elephant or some other sort of animal made out of your towel on your bed when you retired for the night along with a chocolate.