We returned last week from our wonderful cruise on the Serenade for our Thanksgiving cruise from Nov. 21 to Dec. 02. Let me begin my review with debunking a few rumors.........fleet wide, I hope. We were offered fresh ground pepper ten nights out of eleven. I had brought my own, more as a joke but never had to use it. Parm was also served when the dish called for it.
The very best debunking of rumors was meeting several Pinnacles in the main theatre and having wonderful conversations about everything and anything including status level. They were some of the nicest people aboard. I hope this was not an unusual situation for our sailing. and a very Happy Birthday to Bill celebrating his 64th. Hope to meet up with you on another sailing and buy you another White Russian.
OK, that out of the way, we drove from Myrtle Beach to Melborne and that was enough. We stopped to eat at Appleby's and needed to find a hotel. Bad area to wing it as the space launch sightseers had booked everything for miles. We could not find a hotel with any vacancy until hotel number 5, we took it and almost walked out as it truly was a dump of a rathole that was probably rented out by the hour. We were way to tired to continue so we took a blanket and pillows from our car and made the best of it. Going on a cruise is an adventure and seedy hotels on the way may be part of the experience. We were out of there by 7:30 am and were very lucky not to have brought out any bed bugs with our own blanket and pillows.