Let’s Cruise

Hello everyone! Today is Sunday and it’s finally a rest day. For some they say Sunday is the first day of the week, while for some, they would say it’s the last day of the week. Up until now, I still have confusion about that. Can you give me some clarification about that thing. Anyway, it doesn’t matter which is the correct term for that all I know is that Sunday is the best day of the week. Do you agree with me? But right now what I am going to share to you has nothing to do with Sunday. 😁

I had already mentioned many times in my past articles that my husband is working in a cruise ship. He is actually a waiter, and he’s been in the company since 2008. We were actually planning on cruising together once we have enough money, but because covid happened, all of our savings for that particular travel were all spent up. So right now, I’m gonna start saving again for that to happen.

Last March 2020, their ship docked in Manila Port. The original plan was that we can get inside and explore the ship even just for a while, unfortunately it was the month where the covid cases in Metro Manila started, and their company had a changed it’s plans to let the family members in. Since we cannot get inside the ship anymore, we just took a picture of it. Then on the following week, when the first lockdown in the country was implemented, my husband Anthony together with the other crew from the Philippines took their sign off, just in time before the nationwide implementation of lockdown begin.

Okay what a long throwback we have up there. Eversince Anthony got back to work, there has been a lot of changes because of the pandemic. It actually took more than a year before the authorities gave their company the approval to sail. There has been so many health and safe protocols to be done before anything else. And everyone had to adjust for the time being in order for a safe travel while the world is still battling with Covid.

What I am going to share to you, was just a little glimpse from my husband’s work. Let me show some of the things we must expect while on cruise. Their were only few picture since my husband is not a fan of taking a picture, I only force him so that I can have something to post on my noise account before I came up here at read. And as a supportive husband he is, he willingly agreed, only that he was using an old phone so please forgive me if the picture I am about to share is not too good for your eyes.

This was actually one of the biggest ship in their company. They called it quantum class ship and the it has a capacity of 4900 passengers. But because of the pandemic, they only allowed half of it to travel, also travellers must be fully vaccinated and they must also present a negative PCR test on the day of their travel. This is Anthony’s first contract at Ovation of the Seas, also his first time in Alaska. His last travel destination was in Asia.

The picture above is the guest cabin. So if you want to cruise someday, expect a room like this. Fortunately all crew was able to used this room for their two weeks quarantine as part of the safe protocols implemented by their company. And this was where they spent their two weeks quarantine. They were like having a cruise, only that no one was allowed to go out, unless there was an scheduled for swab test. And everyday their temperature must be checked. After they finished the 14 days quarantine, and everything was all cleared they finally checked out in guest cabin and transferred to their crew cabin which was located at lowest deck of the ship. And so they began the trainings and briefings before their first official cruise started.

Here is the fine dining area. They served food at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Usually fine dine is served during dinner time. Each waiter have different sets of guests to take care of for the whole duration of cruise. And if you give them an excellent service, you’d probably get a good tip at the end of cruise. But if you got some complaints well, expect some notice from your superiors.

Are you hungry yet? These were the foods served on the buffet restaurant. All these foods were served at the crew, they had a series of test cruise before the actual cruise started. Some of them has to pretend as guests while the others were the one who give service. All throughout the test cruise, they ate a lot of food that was why everyone gained weight.

After eating all those foods and gaining extra weight, what do we do? Yes work out and some exercise to get all those extra fats away from our body. So Anthony just sent me this picture, when he got an extra time for some running. Unfortunately when the actual cruise started, he had a complicated schedule that is why, he never got the chance to visit the gym again.

Lastly, the view was spectacular right? The Alaska mountains range has a great view according to Anthony. And the temperature over there was very cold. Even if the season there was summer, it didn’t give the place a warm feeling. I was just a little disappointed because I was expecting some glaciers, but I didn’t see one. Ok maybe in the next season.

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Thank you again everyone for reading until here. I want you to know that I really appreciated you all. I hope you enjoy our virtual cruise for today. I was actually saving my bch so that I can add it for our future cruise. It was my plan all along and I hope it will come true. And to end this up, please give some love to my wonderful sponsors.

All images used are mine except for the Lead image Source here.