Cruise end Hong Kong

At sea and Hong Kong journeys end days 16&17

Thursday the 22 of November, important day for one of the tourists, we started the day with a spa before breakfast and then some shopping for alcohol before checking out future Cruises and making a tentative booking for a London to Saint Petersburg Cruise next July, though the intention is to change to a Cruise the following year. We then joined Stella, Lee and Maureen for another game of 5 crowns which Maureen won. It was a great way of killing time on an at sea day which was a bit crowded in most the public areas as the weather was a bit inclement and this kept people indoors. We shared a dinner table with Lee and Maureen in the Metropolitan dining room and after dinner we had a quiet shot on the pokies before having a nightcap in cafe Bacio and chatting with Anne Marie and her friend, we turned in around 11pm.

We didn’t spend to long on the Ship Friday morning,we took advantage of the Shuttle bus to Diamond Hill, Hollywood Plaza we wandered around the centre for a short period before heading to the MTR and organising our Octopus card and catching the train to Jordan Station, from there we found our accommodation for the next few nights the Prudential Hotel which we would check into on Saturday. We then did a lap of Nathan Road before heading back to Hollywood Plaza to catch the shuttle bus back to the Ship.

We spent the evening in the Oceanview cafe and planned to meet up with Stella and John to hopefully catch a glimpse of the Symphony of Lights show which is projected from buildings on the Kowloon side of the Harbour at 8pm every evening. While we did manage to catch a view of the light show the best experience is had by being in position on the mainland. Still it was nice sitting in that location and watching the lights in the harbour. We said goodbye to various friends we had made on the cruise and gave out a few gratuities to staff that had looked after us, Gusti our cabin steward Helena in Café Bacio who was a great companion throughout the cruise and Vaseesh in the dining are who was a pleasant young man.

We returned to our room around nine to contemplate packing for departure as we had to vacate our cabin by 8am.