Au Revoir Vancouver

Au Revoir Vancouver

Today we boarded Celebrity Solstice and sailed out of the vast Vancouver Harbour.


We begin our homeward run across the vast Pacific Ocean.


Celebrity Solstice is more modern and a bigger ship than ‘Serenade of the Seas’-the ship that we crossed the North Atlantic on 26 August. It is 120,000 tones and carries 30% more passengers & crew (approx. 2,850 and 1,200 respectively).
 We knew it would be home for the next 27 days and the cabins were very modern, fabulous bathrooms and very comfortable bed but surprisingly less wardrobe space for our clothing.

Solar panels cover the one of the pools which is enclosed and open from 6am to 10pm



So we had five at sea days to relax before arriving at our first port of call Kailua Kona on the Western side of the big island of Hawaii, also had 3 nights where the clock was put back 1 hour. Nice and relaxing..



The next four days were sea days, not warm but still ok for a number of shipboard activities, meals are the big problem….we all agreed we had to cut back; easier said than done with such nice treats and tempting dishes. Fortunately the serving sizes of he mains are not large

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