Adriatic Cruise from Venice Part 2
To be continued - start here
In the morning with suitcases we go to the port to continue our journey, but already on the majestic cruise ship «Voyager of the Seas»,
which is owned by an American cruise company. Adriatic cruise, passing through Koper (Slovenia), Ravenna and Bari (Italy), Dubrovnik (Croatia) and returning back to Venice .
That's how we got past the port
Glancing at the six huge cruise liners that were in the port and hoping that there would be another vaporetto berth near our ship, as I read on the Internet, we do not unload at the Tronchetto stop and calmly, bypassing our pier, we go into the lagoon towards the island Giudecca. I had to unload, transfer ...and again we are at Roma Square.
I'm trying to figure out on the map what's wrong.
No map needed. I look, in the left corner of the square there is a row of buses, with signs on the windshield with the name of the cruises. The casket opened easily!
It turns out that transfersfrom the airport and from Piazza Roma are organized for delivery to ships. I immediately remembered my transfer from the railway station. from the station to the airport "Zhulyany".
Two big differences! Buses bring us to our terminal, on the issued tags we write our decks and cabins, we hook it to the luggage and it goes along the conveyor into the bowels of the terminal.
Our path to registration. Everything is fast, clear, without delay. Everywhere there are people from our cruise company, directing the flow of tourists, and there are 3.000 of them. Near the counter, having learned that I had, to put it mildly, poor knowledge of the English language, two minutes later a girl who knew Russian was standing next to me. Passed all the formalities, received the so-called.
guest card, which is everything on the ship - passport, checkbook and cabin key, climb aboard this huge ship through a glassed-in gallery. Everywhere friendly smiles, willingness to help.
Our deck number 6, the high-speed elevator stops on our deck very quietly and imperceptibly for us, it’s very easy to find my cabin, it’s not for nothing that I studied this liner at home on the Internet, but tips are at every step. After checking our key card, we go into the cabin.
I took an inner cabin with a window on the Royal Promenade. So called, created in the form of Broadway, a street located inside a three-deck high ship, on which shops, bars, lights stand, where the main life of the guests of the liner passes in the evenings, there is also an exit from a restaurant, casino, theater, and various cafes and much that is on this ship.
A cabin - fifteen meters, a huge bed, two small sofas near the window, a table, a mirror with a dressing table, a corner cabinet with a TV, a built-in closet, opposite it is a bathroom with a washbasin, shower and toilet. Everything is very well thought out, functionally comfortable and cozy. Paintings and sconces on the walls, of course, internal telephone, air conditioning.
Interior cabin overlooking the Promenade
Cabin overlooking the exit
It's clean, but I was struck by the fact that there was a bucket filled with ice on the dressing table and two glasses with ice were poured, covered with a napkin. Apparently, realizing that we would come to the cabin sweaty from the heat and worries, and they worried about it.
After taking a shower, we got ready and went to the eleventh deck, where we were promised food in a restaurant with a buffet and from where we could watch the departure of our liner for a cruise. I won’t talk much about food, there is everything that we, not spoiled by our catering and food in Egypt and Turkey, can imagine. Meat, fish, diet dishes, salads, desserts, their burgers with fries. Iced drinks, Cola, juices, coffees and teas, a variety of pastries, fruits. Eyes open! But there is not much time before sailing, we had a quick bite to eat, than the “chef sent” and to watch and shoot at the exit, how the liner will leave the port.
There are a lot of people on the deck, Latin American rhythms sound, a singer sings on the stage. Someone accepts solar and water treatments, but most are waiting for this magnificent spectacle as the beginning of the cruise.
Music is playing, sunbathing
And so, one after another, greeting each other with horns, cruise ships smoothly began to depart from the piers - a Norwegian, two Italians, an American and the last one - our « Voyager < strong>of the Seas" - Rogue of the Seas.
Ships leaving the port of Venice
Very impressive as they pass through the canals of Venice, slowly, decks above the rooftops. It is especially impressive to see the liner surrounded by houses on the bend of the canal.
Here comes the liner, the upper decks are higher than the roofs of Venice
Someone said - "Does not fit into the canal - half of Venice will collapse. " Joke! Everything went well, Venice was astern, they left the lagoon for the Adriatic, the last farewell beeps and the ships dispersed along their routes. And the holiday on board continues. And this holiday lasted for a week before returning back to Venice.
Views of Venice from the deck
Last look at Venice, leaving for the lagoon
About the ship
A little about the ship- Voyager of the Seas, one of the largest ships of the cruise company “ Royal Caribbian International” with a displacement of 142.000 tons, a length of 311 meters, a draft of 9 meters, has 15 passenger decks, 3110 passengers, 1180 crew members. Cruises are designed for the modern public, an extensive program of entertainment and recreation. It has on board an incredible amount of entertainment for every taste.
Royal Promenade has already been written about, but there is also Ice Rink, where you can see an ice show and ride on the ice yourself, theatre « La Skala , where the interiors of the famous Italian theater are copied and where nightly concerts and shows take place, Kasino Royal casino, night disco, climbing wall, mini-field golf courses, solariums, spa-salons and much, much more. Very interesting programs of the children's club Adventure Ocean are designed for children from 3 to 17 years old.
Royal Promenade (evening)
It's all on the promenade
A chic main 3-tier restaurant that hosts gourmet dinners, when several waiters do not leave you, ready to fulfill all your wishes.
One pours water with ice, the other carries bread, the third carries a menu in which, of course, you don’t understand anything, but you carefully study it in order to say, as a result, at your discretion. Discretion under the name of Mario never failed and brought gourmet meals, his attention was appreciated by an extra tip at the end of the cruise.
There are also alternative restaurants - Italian cuisine” Portofino” , grilled Chops Grill , Johnny Rockets, then Cleopatra, Aquarium and more cafes and bars - from Sportsbar to Vinotheka , Champagne bar, Pub and more, and more. I forgot about the nightclub on deck 14 - Viking Crown Lounge. True, I did not reach it, there was a catastrophic lack of time.
I must say right away that this is not Turkey and Egypt, where everything is included.
All alcohol, from beer, cocktails to wine, whiskey and other strong drinks, is included in your bill and paid at the end of the cruise. The importation of alcohol and in general any food from the cities where we were is also excluded, bags and other other wallets are checked by security when you go on board, so the importation of alcohol is possible only in the stomach.
The only time when it is possible to drink champagne "for free" is the captain's reception, when the captain treats the guests of the ship, takes pictures with them, he introduces his assistants and then the orchestra, dances on the Royal Promenade.
Cleopatra Bar
Guests show all their outfits, men - from a tailcoat to a tuxedo and an ordinary evening suit with a tie or bow tie, women flaunt in evening dresses or cocktail dresses.
I also saw an Indian in a turban with his wife in a sari, a Japanese woman trotted in a kimono, and rode in an elevator with a Scot - top - a white shirt, a bow tie, a tuxedo, bottom - a kilt, leggings, black shoes and on the stomach a silver bag, or lock . Mixture of peoples. Original and unusual! When we were taking pictures with the captain, we brought glasses of champagne, we took a sip, he stayed to take pictures with another couple, and we sat down with friends who appeared in the bar to continue tasting champagne.
With friends at the captain's reception
Next, dancing, conversations, acquaintances with bars, casinos, went to the night deck. Calm ...and the city sparkling with lights floats on the water.
We have an unforgettable vacation ahead of us.
Yes, four years have already passed, and the first cruise, probably, like the first love, is unforgettable.
Now this liner roams on cruises in the Far East, Australia and Oceania, new, even more majestic ships have arrived in the Mediterranean.
