May 2010

If you are lucky enough to be cruising during the month, please list your cruise and the date and we will do our best to stalk you along your journey to get a glimpse of your ship. Please list your dates and ports.

It has been awhile so it will be nice to be sailing on the Mariner again. We've decided to do two nights in Venice before the cruise, an overnight in Cairo during the cruise, and two nights in Istanbul after the cruise.

May 28 Fri Venice, Italy

May 29 Sat Venice, Italy

May 30 Sun Split, Croatia

May 31 Mon At Sea, International Waters

Jun 01 Tue Santorini, Greece

Jun 02 Wed Agios Nikolaos (Crete), Greece

Jun 03 Thu Alexandria (Cairo), Egypt

Jun 04 Fri Cairo (Port Said), Egypt

Jun 05 Sat Haifa, Israel

Jun 06 Sun Ashdod, Israel

Jun 07 Mon Limassol, Cyprus

Jun 08 Tue Rhodes, Greece

Jun 09 Wed Kusadasi, Turkey

Jun 10 Thu Istanbul, Turkey

Jun 11 Fri Istanbul, Turkey

Sue

sounds perfect Sue!

I agree with Joanna, you picked a winner, Sue!

Fred & Pat's itinerary on Navigator:

5/6 Ft. Lsuderdale
5/7 Sea
5/8 Cayman Island
5/9 Sea
5/10 Cartagena, Columbia
5/11 Sea
5/12 Puerto Lemon, Costa Rica
5/13 Panama Canal
5/14 Sea
5/15 Puntarenas, Costa Rica
5/16 Ses
5/17 Puerto Chiapas, Mexico
5/18 Huatulco, Mexico
5/19 Acapculpo
5/20 Sea
5/21 Puerto Vallarta
5/22 Cabo San Lucas
5/23 Sea
5/24 San Diego
5/25 Sea
5/26 San Francisco

Pat

We get on, for BEAR, as Pat and Fred get off.


May 26 Wed San Francisco

May 27 Thu At Sea

May 28 Fri Astoria

May 29 Sat Seymour Narrows

May 30 Sun Ketchikan,

May 31 Mon Cruising Tracy Arm

May 31 Mon Juneau

Jun 01 Tue Juneau

Jun 02 Wed Hubbard Glacier Cruising

Jun 03 Thu Valdez

Jun 04 Fri Cruise the Pacific Ocean

Jun 05 Sat Skagway

Jun 06 Sun Sitka,

Jun 07 Mon At Sea

Jun 08 Tue Victoria, Canada

Jun 09 Wed Vancouver, Canada

David and I are booked on the Voyager May 12 thru June 5, with a couple of nights in London post-cruise.

May 12 Ft. Lauderdale, United States
May 13 At Sea, International Waters
May 14 At Sea, International Waters
May 15 New York, United States
May 16 Newport, United States
May 17 Boston, United States
May 18 Bar Harbor, United States
May 19 Halifax, Canada
May 20 At Sea, International Waters
May 21 Corner Brook, Canada
May 22 L'anse Aux Meadows, Canada
May 23 At Sea, International Waters
May 24 At Sea, International Waters
May 25 Reykjavik, Iceland
May 26 Reykjavik, Iceland
May 27 Heimaey, Iceland
May 28 Torshavn, Denmark
May 29 Kirkwall, UK
May 30 Portree, UK
May 31 Belfast, Ireland
Jun 01 Dublin, Ireland
Jun 02 Waterford, Ireland
Jun 03 Cobh, Ireland
Jun 04 Falmouth (Cornwall), UK
Jun 05 Southampton, UK

I had to cancel my cruise - so never mind!
:(

Leonard and I will be cruising in May aboard the m/s Paul Gauguin. Our ports are:

May 1: Papeete, Tahiti
May 2: Raiatea
May 3: Taha'a (Motu Mahana)
May 4: Bora Bora
May 5: Bora Bora
May 6: Moorea
May 7: Moorea / Papeete, Tahiti
May 8: disembark Papeete, Tahiti

This is our first time in French Poly and we're looking forward to it!

Andrea

Betty - sorry to hear you had to cancel. I was looking forward to meeting you!

Andrea - it will interesting to hear about your experience on the Paul Gauguin since Regent is no longer operating her. I don't think I've seen any other LCT folks scheduled to be on baord since the changeover. Hope they can keep up the standards. We really enjoyed our Paul Gauguin cruise and loved French Polynesia.

Andrea, I'm also going to be waiting to hear about your trip on the PG! May, in my experience, is a great time of year to do t his.

Cindy and Wendy,

I'll definitely give you a full report upon our return. We actually wanted to sail on March 27 but there were only two staterooms available (Owner's Suite and a Grand Suite). April cruises were also very booked but May had good availability.

Andrea

My Mom and I will also be on BEAR. Um this is Arlene.

Tom and I along with our friends Mike/Donna will sail on the Coral Princess (Inside Passage of Alaska).

May 22 embark in Whittier
May 23 Hubbard Glacier
May 24 Glacier Bay
May 25 Skagway
May 26 Juneau
May 27 Ketchikan
May 28 At Sea
May 29 Vancouver disembark

We will spend one night before the cruise in Anchorage at Embassy Suites (sharing a 2 bdrm/2bath suite) with free airport shuttle and free bkfst. After the cruise spending one night at Hyatt Regency Vancouver.

We are booked in a mini suite and chose the anytime dining plan.

Sue, hoping Tom, Mike/Donna and you have a wonderful/majestic Alaska cruise..best, wes

Thanks Wes!

John and I will be on the first leg of the Voyager crossing, Ft. Lauderdale to Reykjavik, May 12-26. Yea!!!!

Cindy, I'm looking forward to meeting you and David! We'll have a great time.

Cindy, we will be on the Reykjavik-Southampton portion of your cruise. We were on the same cruise this last year (either the Norway or the Venice to Istanbul--can't remember which). Anyway, we never formally met. I was trying to figure out who you were. Let's try to meet up this time for sure!

Great! I was wondering if any other LCT cruisers would be on board. Looking forward to meeting you both. Only 69 days, 4 hours and 23 minutes until our cruise (but whose counting!!)

Let the countdown begin, Cindy! :banana:

We haven't been on a ship since our Alaska cruise last June, and we are REALLY ready. I'm glad to know there are other LCTers onboard also. RachelG, maybe we'll even get to meet you as we exit (sob) and you board!

Lars and I will be doing a crossing on Holland America....it's the right timing for us and we will disembark in Barcelona where we will pickup a lease car for the summer. We plan to spend about 10 weeks in Europe - visiting friends and family.

The Noordam leaves Fort Lauderdale on May14 - we arrive in Barcelona on May 27 - it will be cruise shock after the Seabourn Legend 200 to 2000 passengers. But I'm sure we'll have FUN!

Here's our itinerary:

Date Port Arrive Depart
14 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US 05:00 PM
15 - 21 At Sea
22 Funchal (Madeira), Portugal 08:00 AM 05:00 PM
23 At Sea
24 Cadiz (Seville), Spain 07:00 AM 07:00 PM
25 Malaga, Spain 07:00 AM 06:00 PM
26 Alicante, Spain 10:00 AM 05:00 PM
27 Barcelona, Spain 07:00 AM

Margo - we enjoyed our HAL Cruise - even if it was very short. Our room and service were very good and if you are a suite passenger, there was a special dining room for Breakfast/Lunch that was the Steakhouse at night.

Cindy, and anyone else on the Reykjavik-Southampton cruise, I am trying to arrange a CS Lewis tour of Belfast for the morning we arrive there. There is a man named Sandy Smith who does these every Sunday, but he is willing to do private tours as well. We just need to get a few other people so it would be economically feasible. It lasts 2 1/2 3 hrs, and I already told him we would need to be back at ship no later than 1 as we have a 1:45 ships tour.

The tours get good reviews. Anyone interested??

Andrea,
Sorry I am going to miss you. I am embarking on the 8th.

8 Papeete, Tahiti
9 Moorea
10 Bora Bora
11 At Sea
12 Aitutaki, Cook Islands
13 Rarotonga, Cook Islands
14 Cross International Dateline (lose a day)
15 At Sea
16 At Sea
17 Vava'u, Tonga
18 At Sea
19 Savusavu, Fiji
20 Sava, Fiji
21 Malolo Island, Fiji
22 Lautoka , Fiji

We are excited because Dominique, who certified us years ago in Tahiti, is going to be onboard and we are looking forward to diving with him again. We are going to stay a few days at the Intercontinental in Papeete to see some recent changes there and are looking forward to sailing on the Paul Gauguin under the new ownership.

Susan - You and John have a great time! Looks like a spectacular cruise! Tell Dominique hello for us. Let us know how the reef in Moorea and Bora Bora is doing. Oh, if you see Michael the waiter (Daisy, from the bar staff is his wife) please give them a special hello from us. Thanks!

Susan, have a wonderful trip. I know you will. How can you not in the South Pacific, right? It will be interesting to hear what you think of the Paul Gaugin these days.

Kim and Alice,
I will pass along your greetings to Dominique and Michael. Wish you two were coming along. Will let you know how the reef is doing although I heard from someone recently that the Crown of Thorns is really taking over.

Pricilla,
I agree it will be interesting to see what if anything has changed on the PG since I was last there two years ago.

I promise to do a review upon my return.

Sue and Tom in Georgia,

I know you will enjoy your Coral Princess cruise, that is the first cruise we did and it was fun. Not as small as RSS ships (that is one reason we changed) but one of their smaller ships.

Have a great time - - Rod and Cynthia :bv:

Susan,

Hope you have a great cruise - - do you all do scuba also ??

Rod

Cynthia and I will be cruising on the following cruise in May.

May 26 Wed San Francisco,
May 27 Thu At Sea, International Waters
May 28 Fri Astoria,
May 29 Sat Seymour Narrows, International Waters
May 30 Sun Ketchikan,
May 31 Mon Cruising Tracy Arm, International Waters
May 31 Mon Juneau, United States Elegant
Jun 01 Tue Juneau, United States Elegant
Jun 02 Wed Hubbard Glacier Cruising, Ak,
Jun 03 Thu Valdez, United States
Jun 04 Fri Cruise the Pacific Ocean, International Waters
Jun 05 Sat Skagway, United States
Jun 06 Sun Sitka, United States
Jun 07 Mon At Sea, International Waters
Jun 08 Tue Victoria, Canada Elegant
Jun 09 Wed Vancouver, Canada

We are really looking forward to this cruise. The last time we did it, was on the Mariner. But, Cynthia couldn't remember much due to severe back pain and the medication they had her on.

Rod

Rod and Cynthia have a great trip - hope to see you both soon!

Thanks Joanna, we sure hope to - - wish you and Tony were going to be on board !!! Rod & Cynhia

Thanks to some great offers, we made a last-minute decision to take the PG's 15-day Fiji-Tahiti cruise on May 22. We've loved the PG on our two previous trips and look forward to new destinations on this one. Due to crossing the international date line, we get to enjoy May 28 twice!

May 22 Lautoka, Fiji
May 23 Malalo Island, Fiji
May 24 Suva, Fiji
May 25 Savusavu, Fiji
May 26 At Sea
May 27 Vavau, Tonga
May 28 At Sea
May 28 At Sea
May 29 Rarotonga, Cook Islands
May 30 Aitutaki, Cook Islands
May 31 At Sea
Jun 1 Bora Bora
Jun 2 Bora Bora
Jun 3 Tahaa/Motu Mahana
Jun 4 Moorea
Jun 5 Papeete

Dena, have a great time. That's a great itinerary. I'm jealous .

That's awesome Dena! Have a great time!! I'm sure you will.

WOOHOO! the upgrade fairy has struck and we are now in a category B penthouse butler suite. My husband wants to know what a butler does. I told him I have no idea, but am ready to find out.