by The Inside Cabin | Jan 3, 2020 | Florida, California, San Diego, North America, 2020 Grand World Voyage, USA, Fort Lauderdale
This entry is part 2 of 15 in the series 2020 World Cruise. 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...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 13, 2019 | USA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, North America
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 | Florida, North America, 2018 Grand World Voyage, USA, Fort Lauderdale
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 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, USA, North America, Puerto Rico, San Juan
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 | Caribbean, 2018 Grand World Voyage, North America, Georgetown, Cayman Islands
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...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 4, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, USA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, North America, Sea Day
The Adventure Begins A little before noon we were down in the lobby ready to check out of the Embassy Suites and call an UBER for the short driver over to Terminal 26. The lobby was empty and there was no line to check out. I pulled up my UBER app and requested an...
