After the winter
spent in Florida and our quick cruise to Hawaii in February, we
thought that we would not look to cruise again until next year. So
here we are ready to go again! We heard about this cruise about 8
months ago as it was featured in a weekly article about cruising in
our newspaper. When the opportunity to cruise to Greenland out of
New York arose, it was too good to resist. It is a bit off the
beaten path and we don't think that are many cruises dedicated to
Greenland. Other cruises do stop there occasionally.
This
will be cruise number 25 on the Princess Line. This cruise is a 16
day adventure starting and ending in New York. No long trans ocean
flights for this one. It has a total of 6 stops. Halifax and Sydney
Nova Scotia are the stops in Canada heading north. 3 sea days later
we arrive at the first of 3 stops in Greenland. Then we head back to
New York with a stop in Newfoundland before getting back to New York.
The Full schedule is as follows:
We
have been to Iceland twice but have never explored Greenland. It is
a bit off the normal cruise route. In fact this a relatively “new”
itinerary for Princess. It only sails there once this year and will
repeat it again next summer.
We
have booked tours for the 3 stops in Greenland. When we first booked
the cruise there were no scheduled tours. Princess added a few
later. All 3 of our tours involve hikes with about 20 people. We
are looking forward to some really interesting scenery.
The
Caribbean Princess carries 3100 passengers and was refurbished in May
2019. It will be the 2nd time on this ship. We have a balcony on
the Riveria deck. The last time on this ship we did a trans Atlantic
out of Houston. The ship has all the familiar venues including the
International Cafe, the small food bar in the atrium which is where
we like to gather for daily tea and small meals .
As
frequent Princess passengers, we are ready to enjoy the perks of
being “Elite”. Free laundry, on board credits, free
internet, mini bar and wine tasting are part of it! We did receive
paid gratuities on this cruise. Thanks to Stacey our agent at the
Automobile Association, we will again enjoy dining in a specialty
restaurant!
We
leave Saturday morning August Wednesday 17th for New York
and will spend the weekend in New York before joining the ship on
Monday. While in New York we will do the tourist thing including a
Broadway performance of The Jersey Boys. It should be fun.
I
hope to report on each day but the New York reports may have to wait
until we are on the ship. I try to post in the late evening each day
and we only have 2 time changes on this cruise. The posts will be
“real time”. We will try to answer any and all emails that we
received.
The ship must be fully booked because we received an offer to give up our spot for a few future perks. Fat Chance!
