This is a day at sea and it a perfect day to rest after several ports.
Ed got up at 9:30am, and went up to the Pool Deck for breakfast
while Barb did her reading and joined him.
We had a great spot, in the sun and out of the wind.
Today will be relaxing with lunch, the show in the evening, dinner,
and the casino.
Before we forget we would like to tell you why the Yacht Club and the perks for being in
the Yacht Club.
They are:
Our own YC restaurant for all 3 meals if we would want to go. We only go for dinner as the rest of the
time, if the weather is good, breakfast and lunch is on the Pool Deck
The separate pool with lots of staff, and food always there
until the evening. There are only 98 deck
chairs on the entire deck and with 125 people on board here is always a couple
of chairs for anyone who wants to be up in the sun
The YC Lounge with drinks and snacks there until late night. We have wine with dinner each night
Then in our cabin – Barb’s walk-in closet that Ed gets to
share.
A very unique feature is the YC elevator.
As you can see in the picture below, when we walk up to the
elevator bank of 5 elevators, there is a key slot that we put our room key
in. That turns the elevator in the
center into a priority YC elevator and it comes right to us. We go in, insert our key card again and it
goes right to our floor, bypassing all other floors.
Getting off the ship at a port and walking right past the
lines and right to the door of the shuttle bus – that’s a big time saver.
When we get to Istanbul, our Butler will take us off the
ship, get our luggage and walk us to our waiting car to go to the hotel. That’s a big walk of about a couple of city
blocks because the drivers cannot get close to the ship.
This is truly a great was to cruise and we hope to continue cruising
with MSC Cruises.
Night for now as we are on our way to the Port of Piraeus,
the gateway to Athens.
The pictures are not in order as is easier to download them.
