cruising on the Ocean Princess

This is my overview of the ship and our Sea Days. We were on the Ocean Princess, which is one of their smaller ships. It takes about 660 passengers, but there was only about 520 on board this trip. I heard a lot had cancelled because of the change to itinerary and the Japan situation.

sunset from our balcony

Me on the balcony of our cabin.

Our room was smallish, but we did okay. The bathroom was a typical cruise ship bathroom where you could touch all walls without really extending your arms much. We had two twin beds, a small desk, small night stands, a loveseat, and a small end table also very little other floor space. Very "cosy, but we did fine as long as we took turns going around the bed.

The captain and myself at one of the parties

Me with peanuts at the Captain's party. Mom and Holly won a magnum of Champagne and took it to dinner to share with their table mates. First Holly won a day pass to Hong Kong, then she and Mom get this. They really would like to win something that is more of use to one of them. As they already had tickets to Hong Kong Disney and neither is much of a champagne drinker.

They had this cool rum punch at the captain's party. The bartender put a lot of rum in mine, so it was only sipped a little.

At dinner with Holly on the last formal night.

Mostly on the ship we relaxed. Mom and Holly spent some time in the Hot Tub and loads of time in the spa. They probable spent more on treatments than on the cruise itself, but they had such a yummy time. A lot of reading got done also. Watched some moving on the television also. We had gotten their drink passes so we had a lot of hot chocolate, juices, and virgin drinks. Favorite was the raspberry frozen drink. We had a couple of rock and roll times on the ship, but none of us got sea sick. All in all a good experience.

Some of the Staff on board ship. I think they were all party of the cruise directors staff.

One of our tablemates, she and her husband were from Panama. We had a few in depth conversation. She was trying to teach us some spanish.We have more pictures that we bought from the cruise photographer, but need to get home to scan them in.

This was the other couple from our table. We stared on two different tables, but we consoladated into one. So glad we did. Alan and I became quite good mates. They were from England.

Mom, Holly and Myself at the last formal dinner.

From Disneyland to Ship

Holly and Me on train

I am finally able to  put some things up. This was our ride from Disney Hong Kong to the main rail line.

Disney train to main Hong Kong system

Pretty spiffy, huh? It was really nice. Of course our train ride on this one was pretty short then we on a regular train/light rail type system. It still went okay clear up until the time after we got off and were making our way out of the underground station. We did not find lifts and ended up carrying our luggage up a flight of stairs. What a mess, a girl helped Terry, but Holly had to do it all on her own. painful!

Then we walked the .5 miles about to the terminal for the cruise ship. That was hard to find as it was inside the largest shopping mall I had ever seen (at Least 10 times the size of University mall and it was on five levels). It was not marked well and we were frustrated by the time we finally found where we needed to be. But all that aside we made it fine and got upgraded to a balcony room. We did not go out again on this day, we just got our way around ship down. More to come on each port and the ship.