- The Journey Begins – The 2018 Grand World Voyage
- Leaving San Diego for Fort Lauderdale
- Arriving in Fort Lauderdale and our first day
- Fort Lauderdale – Day 2
- Day 1 – The Adventure Begins
- Day 2 – Our First Sea Day – Abba Fabulous!
- Day 3, Georgetown, Grand Cayman
- Day 4, At Sea En Route Puerto Limon (San Jose), Costa Rica
- Day 5, Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
- Day 6, Transit the Panama Canal
- Day 7, Fuerte Amador, Panama
- Day 8, At Sea
- Day 9, At Sea
- Day 10, At Sea
- Day 11, At Sea
- Day 12, At Sea
- Day 13, At Sea – Enroute to Nuku Hiva
- Day 14, At Sea, Enroute to Nuku Hiva
- Day 15, At Sea – Enroute to Nuku Hiva
- Day 16, Taiohae, Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia
- Day 17, At Sea
- Day 18, Avatoru, Rangiroa, French Polynesia
- Day 19, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
- Day 20, Mooera, French Polynesia
- Day 21, Bora Bora, French Polynesia
- Day 22 – At Sea
- Day 23, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
- Day 24, At Sea
- Day 25 – Alofi, Niue
- Day 26 – At Sea – Crossed Dateline – Jan 29th GONE!
- Day 27 – At Sea
- Day 28 – At Sea
- Day 29 – Auckland, NZ
- Day 30 – Tauranga – 3 Feb 2018
- Day 31 – Napier
- Day 32, At Sea – Super Bowl Monday
- Day 33, Port Chalmers, Dunedin
- Day 34, Fjordlands National Park – Milford Sound
- Day 35 – At Sea – Enroute Sydney
- Day 36 – At Sea
- Day 37 – Sydney, Australia
- Day 38 – Sydney, Australia
- Day 39 – At Sea
- 2020 World Cruise Possibilities
- Day 40, Hobart, Tasmania
- Day 41, At Sea
- Day 42, At Sea
- Day 43 – Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
- Day 44 – Adelaide, South Australia
- Day 45 – At Sea
- Day 46 – At Sea
- Day 47 – Albany, Western Australia
- Day 48 – 21 Feb Perth
- Day 49 – Perth Yarn Crawl
- Day 50 – At Sea
- Day 51 – At Sea
- Day 52 – At Sea
- Day 53 – Benoa, Bali
- Day 54 – Benoa – Bali
- Day 55 – At Sea
- Day 56 – At Sea
- Day 57 – At Sea
- Day 58, Puerto Princesa
- Day 59, – At Sea
- Day 60, Manila, Philippines
- Day 61, Manila, Philippines
- Day 62 – At Sea
- Day 63 – Hong Kong
- Day 64, Hong Kong
- Day 65 – At Sea
- Day 66 – At Sea
- Day 67 – Phu My, Vietnam
- Day 68 – Siem Reap (ms Amsterdam at Sea)
- Day 69 – Siem Reap
- 2020 World Cruise – w/detailed dates
- Day 70 – Singapore
- Day 71 – At Sea
- Day 72 – Phuket
- Day 73 – At Sea
- Day 74 – At Sea – Enroute to Sri Lanka
- Day 75 – Columbo, Sri Lanka
- Day 76 – At Sea – Enroute to the Seychelles
- Day 77 – At Sea
- Day 78 – At Sea
- Day 79 – Victoria, Seychelles
- Day 80 – At Sea
- Day 81 – At Sea
- Day 82 – St Denis – Reunion Island
- Day 83 – At Sea
- Day 84 – At Sea
- Day 85 – At Sea
- Day 86 – Maputo – Safari Day 1
- Day 87 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 2
- Day 88 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 3
- Day 89 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 4
- Day 90 – Cape Town, South Africa
- Day 91, Cape Town, South Africa
- Day 92 – At Sea
- Day 93, Walvis Bay, Namibia
- Day 94 – At Sea
- Day 95 – At Sea
- Day 96 -Luanda, Angola
- Day 97 – At Sea
- Day 98 – At Sea
- Day 99 – Crossing the Equator
- Day 100 – At Sea
- Day 101 – At Sea
- Day 102 – Banjul, Gambia
- Day 103 – Dakar, Senegal
- Day 104 – At Sea
- Day 105, Praia – Cape Verde
- Day 106 – At Sea
- Day 107 – At Sea
- Day 108 – At Sea
- Day 109 – At Sea – April 23, 2018
- Day 110 – At Sea
- Day 111 – San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Day 112 – At Sea
- Day 113 – At Sea
- Day 114 – Fort Lauderdale
- 2018 World Cruise Entertainers
Day 110 – At Sea – April 24
There wasn’t any Coffee Chat this morning due to the crew drill which happened about the same time.
Today is the last sea day before we arrive in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we will clear United States Immigration. Clearing Immigration in Puerto Rico should make things go faster in Fort Lauderdale since we will only have to clear Customs.
Amazon gift certificates
As earlier reported, the Grand Dollars from previous years has gone away and substituted with Amazon gift certificates. Each gift certificate is worth $.10. Vouchers for the gift certificates were handed out for participation in various events from Trivia to Miniature Golf to Shooting Baskets. There is no longer any premium given for those teams which come in first as there has been in the past. A group of us from Table 303 have been going to afternoon trivia almost every day since early in the cruise. My table mates have been giving me their vouchers after the games each day. At 4 o’clock today they announced they will be redeeming the vouchers for Amazon gift cards for the final time this cruise. I took mine down to the Explorer’s Lounge and waited in a short line. They accepted our word for the number of vouchers we had, not bothering to count them up, and then rounded our total up to the nearest five dollars and gave us the appropriate number of gift cards. It was a better process than the Grand Dollars was since we could only trade those in for a limited number of HAL trinkets which we may or may not have any interest in. With the Amazon Gift Cards we were able to buy something on Amazon that we would find useful.
Today I was able to cash in my 340 vouchers for US$35 in Amazon gift cards.
Indonesian Crew Show
The highlight of the day was the Indonesian Crew Show directed by everyone’s favorite assistant dining room manager, Presty. Here is a photograph of the program which consisted of six different numbers:
• Welcome Saman Dance
• Traditional Albutahu & Sipato – Pato Song
• Cendrawasih Dance
• Surprise Song
• Sesonderan Dance
• Kecak Ramayana Dance
We arrived in the Queen’s Lounge around 2 PM and were able to get seats in the first row of the Balcony. The place was filling up quickly and was almost completely full around 2:30 – 30 minutes before showtime. The show was very entertaining, and most people were eagerly looking to spot their waiter/waitress or cabin steward amongst the performers onstage. The next evening, when Judy entered the dining room for dinner, she asked Presty if he had learned those dances when he was in school. He told her that the dances they performed were from a different island than the one he grew up on and he didn’t learn them until he was working on Holland America cruise ships.
Tina, the Pinnacle Grill Manager, and Nasirum, were the Masters of Ceremonies.
Maria Lyn
Maria Lyn was back for her second show this evening. She put on another fantastic show featuring big hits from Stage and Screen, including “The Phantom of the Opera” and “’S Wonderful” from Diana Krall.
