Days 4 to 6 Sailing to Hong Kong
We have spent three sea days making our way from Singapore to Hong Kong. The weather has been fine and mostly sunny, and the seas smooth.
Shipboard life tends to be pretty similar from one day to another so I have lumped these three days together so your poor blog writer doesn’t have to strain his brain quite so much to fill a page.
We are really enjoying our time on the Queen Anne. You can see they put a lot of thought into its design and operation. A good example is the casual dining area where we usually go for breakfast and lunch. Every cruise ship has one of these mounted up on one of the ship’s top decks.
When we sailed on another line, they used to call this dining area the Horizon Court, but the passengers’ nickname for it was “The Horror Zone” and it was a pretty apt description. Everyone was stressed as there were never enough seats, desirable food items would appear and would vanish in one or two huge self servings.
On Queen Anne, this area is another world, there is space, seats for all and some (we have got a window seat every day). All the food is behind glass and is served by staff at your request. The area feels peaceful and meal times here are very enjoyable.
We have spent time exploring the various parts of the ship.
In the evenings it’s dinner in the Britannia Dining Room with Noelle and Alan, then on to the theatre for the nightly show. These have covered a variety of formats from a stand up comedian, a production from the travelling dancers, to the standout so far, a Beatles Tribute Band called the Australian Beatles.
These guys were so good belting out a heap of Beatles numbers to a packed theatre with people standing along the sides.
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