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Explora 1 Day 1
Miami December 13th, 2023 Today is the day! We are due to board at 12:30, and I was so excited. I looked out the window of our hotel room, and there she was, hiding behind a Regence Seven Seas ship. We will be on her in a few hours. I had planned to spend the...
Itinerary
Despite the promise of diverse itineraries, ours really isn’t that different to the usual Caribbean itinerary. The good news is we get to see a new country – the Dominican Republic. We were planning to go there on our Virgin Voyages cruise last year, but missed it...
Prologue
Until about 2 months ago I had not really thought about the new cruise line, Explora Journeys. Yes, I had been inundated with their marketing materials, but I must admit that I get sooooo many marketing emails on a daily basis, all of their promotional material...
Queen Mary 2 Day 22
April 28th, 2023 Southampton to the US For the first time in a very long time we had breakfast in the dining room, and jolly good it was too. We usually have to go to the Kings Court and Carinthia for breakfast as the dining room is long closed by the time we...
Queen Mary 2 Day 21
April 27th, 2023 Southampton Today was another cold and rainy one. We decided to skip the Isle of White, and instead blow all of our OBC in the spa. Well I did anyway. It was OBC well spent. I had fallen in love with a scarf in the Liberty shop on board, but it was...
Queen Mary 2 Day 20
April 26th, 2023 Southampton The Daily Programme Port Highlights has a description of Southampton on the front page. This has been the same since Sunday. I am thinking of offering to try to make it more interesting, reading exactly the same prose every day is...
Queen Mary 2 Day 19
April 25th, 2023 Southampton Nothing has changed, except there is a new car carrier docked across from us. We are still in Southampton on Queen Mary 2, waiting for the information on when we will fly home. We have been officially told that everyone will be off the...
Queen Mary 2 Day 18
April 24th, 2023 Southampton I dreamt last night that we were back at sea again, and speeding towards New York. I looked out the window, and the car park was still there, No we were not at sea, We spent the morning in the Commodore Club. We knew we should be off...
Queen Mary2 Day 17 Part 2
April 23rd, 2023 Southampton Well we are still on board. It’s weird, it’s almost like nothing happened. We had drinks with our friends who had been on the Queen Victoria world Voyage, and it was fun hearing about all of the excitement on their voyage, and we filled...
Queen Mary 2 Day 17 Part 1
April 23rd, 2023 Southampton Well there was an 8:00 AM announcement from Captain Hall. He told us how far the world voyage passengers had sailed, and wished all of the disembarking passengers a safe journey home. Phew! No bad news. I was told by a passenger that my...
Queen Mary 2 Day 16
April 22nd, 2023 At Sea Well mostly at sea, with a little bit of Southampton thrown in This is the last day for the majority of passengers on the ship. You can feel it in the air. There is a definite sense of melancholy. This has been their home since January, and...
Queen Mary 2 Day 15
April 21st, 2023 At Sea The captain was right. The weather had definitely changed, and we awoke to a cold and rainy day. Usually most of the passengers seem to be out on deck, and we were concerned that the ship would feel crowded with everyone indoors. I would...
