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Review for Canada & New England Cruise on Eurodam
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zackiedawg
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Oct 2011
Cabin: Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom

It was nice for a change to get away from Caribbean scenery and see something different -â€" risking the sometimes ugly northeast weather for some gorgeous fall scenery. As it was, we had pretty good luck ALMOST all the way through.

The cruise started in Quebec City, so I flew up the night before on WestJet, an airline I didn't even know existed, but which gets top rates from me for friendly service, reasonable rates, and very few extra charges for what used to be normal services for airlines. Arriving in Quebec airport at a little after 9:30pm, we cabbed to our hotel in the old quarter of Quebec city in the upper city walls -â€" Hotel Clarendon. It was a quick booking with no knowledge of the hotel -â€" just wanting a cheap room in the old town...$160 per night was reasonable enough for the location. Heading up to the room, I was pleasantly surprised to find it had two separate rooms, and 5 windows on 2 sides overlooking a lovely square and the cafe strip next to a Cathedral and 1 block from the Terrasse. It was an old hotel -â€" yet nicely stocked, comfortable bed, lovely views, and lots of character. That first night, I decided to go on a night photography expedition through the old town, both upper and lower, taking photos until 2am. It's such a gorgeous city at night! The next morning, checkout wasn't until noon, so I started out at 9am on another walking tour of the town, this time during the day...heading back to the hotel at noon to get my luggage and check out. The hotel concierge got us a cab quickly -â€" there was a clot of folks outside clamoring for every cab, but since the concierge obtained ours, he already had his cab reserved with our name, and we bypassed the angry but unorganized mob who failed to plan ahead. We didn't get too far initially, since the line of cabs struggling to get into the port was unbelievable...but our cabby was proud of his French heritage, and drove like a Parisian...coming in the back way behind a condo and through their parking lot, squeezing past dozens of cabs to get us to the ship in just a few minutes.

The line to get on the ship was a bit long too, at first, but opened up reasonably as we got to the main checkin -â€" taking advantage of the 4-star Mariner line, we were onboard no more than 25 minutes after leaving the hotel. Pleasantly, our room was already cleared and ready to use -â€" no waiting around the lobbies with carryon luggage...so we headed to Navigation, Deck 8, all the way to the back where our aft cabin, 8166, was waiting. The aft VA category cabins are pretty much identical to other VA's, except the balcony is deeper by a foot or two -â€" and being Navigation deck, there's a nice overhang over the balcony so noone above can look down on you, and you are safe from rain and spray. I'm often asked if Navigation rooms suffer from chair noises and foot noises from above...I can say for me, not at all. I may have heard chairs being moved every rare once in a while, usually during the day when I'm already awake, but nothing that should bother anyone. One night, we had unusual racket around 11pm followed by lots of feet running around and chairs sliding, but that was a very rough sea night and some stuff started moving that wasn't supposed to, so we were hearing the crew running out there to stow everything...after 30 minutes, all was quiet again.

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Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom

Cabin VA

Not enough shelving, but ample closet space. Large bathroom, full tub and shower. Comfortable beds, couch for two, small desk. Balcony slightly larger on the Navigation deck Aft than the VA cabins facing the sides - about 2 feet more deep. Good overhang on Navigation aft makes balcony completely private, and sheltered from rain and spray, but still short enough to get some sun. Quiet - very little hall noise as it's at the aft, very little noise from pool deck above except for during the day, with the occasional chair noise.

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