by The Inside Cabin | Apr 14, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 100 – At Sea – April 14th Culinary Operations Manager Florin was the Coffee Chat guest this morning. We learned that the Grand World Voyage is the only cruise where the ship plans the menus instead of the staff in Seattle. Every August, the Amsterdam...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 13, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 99 – Crossing the Equator – April 13th The Crossing the Line ceremony was scheduled for 10 AM by the LIDO pool. I arrived at 9 AM to get a good seat to shoot video. I was in the second row. Here is a video highlight reel Michael, Connor and Grahame, from the...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 12, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 98 – At Sea – April 12th 4 AM wake up call For the second time this cruise, we had an actual first stage alarm. You may recall that the first one was during our late seating dinner back on 10 March. That turned out to be caused by some residual smoke/fire...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 97 – At Sea – April 11th Today is the first of five consecutive sea days which we always enjoy. A big part of our World Cruise are all the activities that we take part in the ship. I was still feeling a little crummy from yesterday so I stayed in the cabin...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 9, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 95 – At Sea – April 9th Coffee Chat Grand Voyages, particularly the Grand World Voyage, have more onboard activities than your normal Holland America cruise. One of those is resident clergy. Today during Coffee Chat, all three of the clergy were...
by The Inside Cabin | Apr 8, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Sea Day
Day 94 – At Sea – April 8th Walvis Bay turned out to be a very nice port, even though we didn’t do very much except visit the mall and the Lagoon Waterfront. On a future visit we look forward to taking advantage of other opportunities. The outlook for our...
