Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Our Stateroom

Here are some pics of our stateroom.  We always book the lowest inside cabin as close to the center of the ship as possible...that way if the seas are rough, there's not so much "rocking and rolling" in our cabin.  Cabins are quite small, but I was amazed at the amount of closet and storage space and the safe was easy to program and use.  The room wasn't as yellow as the pictures indicate...the closet is a better image of the colour.  One of the channels on the TV was a "bridge cam" so we could see where the ship was going and what the weather was like.  Another station had the "report from the bridge" telling you the distance sailed from embarkation, or the last port, air temperature, sea temperature, sea condition (rough, moderate, slight, or calm)...all that sort of fun stuff.

Because this is Princess' 50th anniversary they had a TV station with all the re-runs of the "Love Boat" on it.  There were also TV stations with news and movies on them.

From San Francisco to Hawaii, Ensenada and back to San Francisco we travelled 5448.3 nautical miles = 6066.2 statute miles = 9769,3 kilometers.  From San Francisco to Vancouver is an additional 862.5 nautical miles.  We were on board the ship for 17 nights.




Monday, May 25, 2015

correction

It was the end of April that we were in San Francisco.

San Francisco

The end of May we flew to San Francisco and stayed 2 nights on Fisherman's Wharf then boarded the Star Princess and sailed for 5 days to Hawaii.  Stopped in 4 ports then sailed to Ensenada, Mexico, San Francisco then on to Vancouver.  Didn't think I'd enjoy SF because we'd been there a couple of times before, but it was really neat to stay in a hotel on Fishermen's Wharf and go out exploring.



The hotel had an area map on the wall and up on the ceiling.  It was handy to watch the news and look up where the places were.  It also had a really neat magnetic dart board....no holes in the walls!!!


It was also really neat watching the bakers make all the neat shapes of bread loaves...the teddy bears and alligator were the best!