by The Inside Cabin | Jan 4, 2020 | 2020 Grand World Voyage, USA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, North America, Knitting
Day 1 We arrived in Fort Lauderdale mid-day Thursday which gave us one full day to recover from our jet lag before boarding the Amsterdam on Saturday. In the past we stayed at one of the many hotels near Port Everglades, but this time we stayed at the Residence Inn in...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 3, 2020 | 2020 Grand World Voyage, USA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, California, San Diego, North America
. Happy Days Are Here Again! The piano was not being used, but was ready to play, complete with the sheet music for “Happy Days Are Here Again! We finished checking our 4 bags to Fort Lauderdale and were heading to the TSA checkpoint when we spotted the piano...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 13, 2019 | Florida, North America, USA, Fort Lauderdale
Here is a video of our cabin on the Nieuw Statendam – 7143. We started a 7 day Eastern Caribbean Cruise on 13 January...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 28, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, USA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, North America
Day 114 – April 28 – Fort Lauderdale Today is the final day of our cruise, and it’s only a half day as the ship starts disembarking passengers early in the morning and we expect to all be off by 10 o’clock. We chose the latest disembarkation time since we were...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 25, 2018 | San Juan, 2018 Grand World Voyage, USA, North America, Puerto Rico
Day 111 – San Juan, Puerto Rico – April 25 Today is the first port day after five sea days and our final port day of the 2018 World Cruise. We will be entering the United States for the first time and are required to clear Immigration. Everybody on the ship must...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 6, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, North America, Georgetown, Cayman Islands, Caribbean
Late Sleepers Since our tour was cancelled we could sleep in for a bit since we now didn’t have any reason to get ashore at any particular time. One of the down sides of a Grand World Voyage is that 80% of the ship is 4 star mariner or higher which means that priority...
