Today, the only things on our agenda was breakfast at the hotel, pack, taxi to the dock & board the Crystal Symphony. Boarding was scheduled to start at noon. We were ready to leave the hotel by 10:30 am, so we checked out of the room and went down to the lobby to order a taxi. I didn’t want to arrive at the dock early because I pictured us waiting outside with our suitcases and backpacks.
We arrived at the port around 11:30 am. I was pleasantly surprised by a number of things:
1. the passenger terminal was in a building
2. our ship was the only one docked there
3. There were plenty of Crystal staff members in the parking lot to greet us and take our suitcases.
4. We were in the 1st group allowed to board, and we were seated for lunch by 12:15 pm
Lunch was a delicious buffet, but I just selected a few things to sample and they were all very good.
For dinner, I had a really good vegetable soup, that probably had a significant amount of cream to add to the taste. My entrée was a couple of small portions of veal steak, which was perfectly sized because I was mostly full after the soup.
During dinner, the ship started leaving Port, and I only knew that we were sailing because we were sitting by a window and we could see the movement. The ship is the smoothest ship I can remember - there is no sense of movement.
One thing we noticed in contrast to our cruises on Viking, the other passengers are not as friendly as the ones on Viking. We really noticed this when we went to dinner and asked to be seated at a larger table than just for the two of us. The head waiter discouraged us from that, saying that we wouldn’t want to be sitting at a table for six people and be the only two people sitting at the table. On our Viking cruises, we would always ask to be seated at a larger table and met many people that way.
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