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Pacific Coastal Repositioning

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2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Oct 2010
Cabin: Mid-Ship Mini-Suite with Balcony

Pre-cruise..

Flew to Seattle and spent 3 nights in Seattle. Great town great time, but this is a cruise review. Used SeaTac car service to get to hotel downtown. Cost was about $40 + tip. This was real late at night and we have found the car services to be about the same cost as a cab, but much nicer, cleaner, and we feel safer. Doesn't mean we are any safer, but we feel it so who cares. Did take Amtrak from Seattle to Vancouver. DW booked the ticket and paid extra for business class. I highly recommend this. The extra cost (minimal, about $10 or $15 per ticket, can't remember) got us early check-in with no waiting (bypassed a long line,) early boarding onto a crowded train station, $3 each off of anything in the bistro car. However, eat something before you get on the train and use this just for a snack or coffee. It also allowed us to get off the train first and get us through Canadian immigration prior to the coach passengers getting off the train. Took a cab from the train station to the cruise terminal. It was right out front of the station and dropped us off right at the terminal. Gave the cabbie $13 US and we were both happy. Very pleasant ride. Baggage porter met us at the cab and took bags (as we had luggage tags on already.) There were about 10 people in line. Would have just done it myself with less people in line, but was expecting it to be further away like in Miami. Probably should have done this myself and saved the 5 bucks, but hey, it is vacation. Next in through security. This was a long winding line, but it seemed to keep moving. There were 3 ships in port, maybe that made it longer. Probably took 15 or 20 minutes. Got in the terminal through security and went straight in to get our room keys. We had a mini suite AF, so we got to go on the side of the suite passengers. No wait. Other line looked like a fairly short wait. But we were on early.

Day 1, Vancouver. Went right on the ship and DW asked if the restaurant was open. He said yes, deck 12, directing us to the buffet. I then asked, "Is there a sit down restaurant open?" He said' "Versailles." Of course we figured it was, but didn't know what time it was at the moment. So we went to Versailles for lunch. Not very crowded and of course it was very tasty. We have learned from Cruise Critic members to always go to the restaurant the first day for lunch ,as it is less crowded than the buffet. They try to get everyone in the buffet and out of the way of the entry deck. While we were eating a message came on the loudspeaker that cabins on Decks 11 & 121 were ready, so a lunch, we went on up to our cabin. This was our first time in an AF, our biggest cabin yet. We loved it. Luggage came fairly quickly and not all at once, so we had ample time to unpack. I went downstairs to order some surprise chocolate covered strawberries for DW. Went to dinner around 6:30, which is late for us. We went to the Aqua, and it had a line of about 7 parties in front of us. Line went fairly quickly and for the first time in a while, they asked if we minded setting with others. We said no and sat at an 8 top with 2 other couples. We had a great meal and a great time. Went to bed early. Skipped the show.

Cabin Review

Mid-Ship Mini-Suite with Balcony

Cabin MA

Large balcony. Plenty of room. Our roomiest cabin yet.

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