Friday 2 and Saturday 3 September 2016
Friday is spent entirely at sea as we head back down the North Sea and through the English Channel to berth at Southampton, right back where we started from.
A day at sea allows the shipboard team the opportunity to arrange extra events. We have a look around the specialist restaurants and will probably take advantage of them if we ever come on the Celebrity again as they break up the dining. Jackie usually partakes in a bingo session on a sea day, although I do not always accompany her I do this time. Just as well as she enjoys a small win on this trip, mainly because one number flashes up but was not announced by the caller – although I spotted it! Lucky!
The evening entertainment has been pretty good throughout the trip – a Freddie Mercury impersonator one night and an excellent girl singer who has worked on UK X Factor and won (I think) the Dutch version. I am told we will be doing a Celebrity cruise again in the future, it is more relaxed than Cunard and the entertainment is better – of course the ships are much larger which gives greater capacity but the ratio of staff to passengers is not so good – but the service seems pretty good to me.
On Saturday morning we cannot be sure when we are disembarking as it is done in stages and we are given estimates of when it is likely that we can go and collect our luggage. The more expensive staterooms tend to disembark first. We have time for a breakfast but they are ahead of schedule and we are about half way through breakfast when we are told we can go. Finding luggage is always fun in the adjacent “warehouse” and unlike when we arrived we have to walk back to the car – when we arrived the luggage was collected at the car and that was the last we saw of it until we were in our cabins! Luckily the wheels on the cases work and we are not in a great hurry.
Steve and Veronica have definitely enjoyed the trip and are looking at what might be worth booking for the future.
| Route segment | Distance in Nautical miles |
|---|---|
| Southampton to Bergen | 805 |
| Bergen to Flam | 100 |
| Flam to Geiranger (approx) | 256 |
| Geiranger to Alesund (approx) | 65 |
| Alesund to Stavanger | 250 |
| Stavanger to Southampton | 635 |
| Total (approx) | 2111 |
And with that summary another holiday comes to an end.