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We are boarding now for Oslo🇳🇴 So we will be home in our house in 2,5-3h from now❤️ Monday morning is back to reality🤣🤣👌🏻 But I have done some emails and papers for work during our trip. So it will be fine😊 The best thing is that we are arriving from Asia. It’s the easiest way to turn around the clock. So jet lag is not a problem here. What is the worst is that the chef, housekeeper and secretary has a full schedule at work and at home😂😂🤣 aka ME🙈 Its 1 of advent today!!!! So I need to just run home and start putting up the advent decorations and lights🤩

Hello🇩🇰 from Copenhagen our flight to Oslo is 1.5h delayed🙃 Happy to hear you are safe onboard❤️ Sorry for the delay in boarding. My stomach told me it would be similar issues in Sin🙈 @Northern Aurora sorry for your experience in b2b issues❤️ Looking forward for the updates🤩

When in Singapore 🇸🇬 Must-do…. Hawker market for some food😋 We need to eat something… Mr found a local brew beer 🍺 Some scampi soup, dumplings and chicken rice😋😋😋 We went to Maxwell hawker, so we could walk thru Chinatown on the way. (It’s always fun) After the food coma kicked in, it was time to head for Changi Airport. We took the metro. This works like a clock🙃 Christmas has arrived🎄🎄🎄 Our bags were waiting at the designated pick up point. It was just around the corner from early check-in area by Jewel shopping. Thai Airways uses Terminal 1, counter 4. They don’t open check-in until 3h before departure…. (And this is very important! The majority of airlines that operate at Changi have early counter in Jewel. So you can drop your bags AND they will issue boarding passes) You can drop off many hours before👌🏻 So you can check in, you just need to proceed to this area! We dropped off our bags and received boarding passes to Oslo for all 3 flights. All checked and all cleared at 17.00. So then we walked over to Singapore Airlines Kris Flyer Gold Lounge T3. My Star Alliance *G gives us access. They have full shower facilities, food and drinks. It’s a little bit less fancy than the Biz lounge. But still a very good lounge. Extremely happy for a shower after our beach trip. So now we are “ready” for our trip home🇳🇴 Our first flight leaves to Bangkok, BKK 21.00. Next flight from BKK to Copenhagen, CPH leaves 00.50 in the night. In CPH we arrive 06.35 and last flight home to Oslo leave 08.05.

We went for breakfast at 07.25 in Luminae. Mr had some fruit and crepes. I had berries, yogurt and my cereal. Around 08.00 we went downstairs to collect our backpacks 🎒 and headed up to the retreat. It was several people waiting for tours to depart and b2b process. Janell escorted us and some other guests down to the gangway on deck 5. We pinged off the ship for the last time…. It’s always a bit sad to say goodbye 👋🏻 We walked down to the terminal building and meet the line for immigration. It took us 30.minutes to clear immigration. YES, there were people in line not holding the Singapore arrival cards filled in. They see it asap when they scanned passports. So they were sent outside to get it in order and then put back in line after finishing. We walked further down to collect our bags, screening them thru customs and then we were ready for our day😊 So it took around 45.minutes from we pinged off until we were ready. Since our flight leaves 21.00 tonight, we had decided to use the baggage service from the port to Change Airport. You deliver your bags in the arrival hall of the cruise terminal and they take it to the airport. You pick up your bags at your requested time. They deliver to all 3 terminals🙂 2bags was 50$ SGD They can also store or deliver to hotels in Singapore. Our plan for today is Sentosa island for a beach trip🏝️🏖️ Deliverys for Edge waiting to enter the port: So we walked to the metro station and took us to Sentosa transit station. We took the metro mover over to the island. It’s 4$ SGD pr person. You can just tap your card at the station. Same as for the metro. Beach is the last station on the line. We walk in direction of Siloso beach. It’s public beach and it’s free. Changing/toilets areas are available everywhere. And it’s lifeguard duty. As Jim has mentioned, Sentosa is the party/fun island for Singapore. So plenty of bars, restaurants, resorts, Universal studios etc. I would rate it as going to Niagara Falls for fun🏖️🎡🎠 A good way to kill some hours and have a swim in the ocean😎 last for this year😝

Good morning! We had a 🐉🐲🇸🇬 welcome party! welcome onboard👍🏻 We are packing out❤️

A very good morning ladies & gentlemen! Singapore 🇸🇬 is making sure everyone is waking up🐲🐉 Starboard side as we approached the pier had a full party on 😜 IMG_1592.mov

Back to our dinner……. The menu tonight was looking good 👍🏻 We went for asparagus, salmon and cod. Oh my….. The asparagus was so tasteless. Like really tasteless. Like nada flavours😳 out the back door 🚪 The salmon was tasty and good 👍🏻 The cod 🐟🐟🐟 Remember we go fishing? This piece of fish is definitely not a cod. It arrived, we had a look on the skin and we said in twins: this doesn’t look as a cod…. Strange…. Its tasted definitely not as a cod. This is something else…. It was too fatty and the structure of the fish was wrong. It was like a halibut, but not really a pure one… just very strange. As we sat there, cutlery 🍴 plated as we were done, trying to get contact to get some attention from crew….. Supervisor was running to 🙈 hide… we tried to get him to us, but he knew what the “el fishermen from Norway” probably had to say🤣🤣🤣 We had to laugh, they probably did a stone, rock and scissor behind the wall🤣🤣🤣 since this was plate nr 2 not very successful this evening🤪🤪🤪 So it went out the back door 🚪🤭 our waiter had a light panic attack…. (Brilliant way to end our evening, cruise scores of food/luminae -10 in his eyes 👀) We asked for something else on the menu… because we were hungry…. So he said beef & fettuccine 😋 After a little while it arrived on the table🙃 From hell to heaven tonight😂😜😋 This was definitely 💯 Flavours and just excellent 👌🏻 Tonight’s dessert menu: Mr had the chocolate dessert and I ice cream. Both tasted good 👍🏻

So, our cards for first part of our b2b had not arrived to our cabin…. Mr asked for them yesterday. No cards on our door during today… So at 19.00 we asked again in the retreat😣 Well, here’s the problem… since we didn’t stay in the retreat last part of our b2b…. They don’t have the cards in their possession…. So after some phones and Physical movement, the cards arrived in the retreat🤩 we just sat down on a sofa with a pre dinner drink😆 so no sorrow for us😅 They had our cards in guest relations🙈 We are satisfied and have our cruise cards for both cruises in hand👍🏻👍🏻 After the search of cruise cards we decided to go for dinner at 20.00. We arrived during rush hours. But we had plenty of time🙃 So no stress😅 We had a table on I-95 but not an awful location. The most bothersome is people unpacking or packing plates and cutlery. Today’s menu: Chefs delight:

There are now bad weather😁 it’s just bad clothes😎 So we went to the retreat pool deck. It was only a super light drizzle and it slowly cleared up😉 We sat in the gray sun and enjoyed ourselves. This is a day you get mega lobster 🦞 if you think the light is not sharp. (Believe me, the uv is out😎) We took a dip in the pools, the gelato walk served cassis gelato😋 Cheers to a great holiday 🥂 Around 15.15 we decided that it was time to go inside. We took a Clark-Kent and went for some afternoon tea and pick up the passports😌 Will really miss the opportunity to sit outside in shorts and a light shirt 👚… its a long time until next time🥶😎 We asked for our cruise cards from last sailing yesterday. They have still not arrived…. (We always need to deliver them to the gangway and then they return them back) we want our cards to our stack of cards 🃏 Now it’s time for me to do luggage 🧳 Mr will have a last date by the ducks 🦆 Then it’s time to enjoy the last evening onboard for this time💙⚓️💙 When they changed from breakfast to lunchtime, it’s the day of their “dress to impress” cakes, food and decorations was rolling out🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩵

😅 sorry for laughing this is really the worst nightmare when you plan to use it😳 We have extra batteries. So this has saved us. But our old GoPro just died on holiday. It was working perfectly and suddenly it was just completely dead 🫠 It was kaput☠️🙈 This was during our NZ advanced experience🙈 So we called a store and ordered a new one for pickup!

Good morning from a wet and humid sea day! It’s showers off/on. I was awake to my normal time… Mr was half way dead😜 So it was buffet breakfast on the last minutes (together by lots of others🤣🤣) Mr had his usual omelette and had my milk, apricot and cereal. It’s dry by the windows on the balcony. So we could sit outside😉 On our door, the letter for passport delivery had arrived. I was surprised it wasn’t on our bed already when we arrived back yesterday…. At some point we needed to get them back😝 Well, make the best of it🤩 What to do? Jacuzzi, shopping, live music, have some martinis? Well, as the big drinker I am, martinis are out😅 I think we will hit the pool for a dip😎

Cruise Compass Day 12. Sea Day. Time change to Singapore time +1h.

We love Thailand for The seafood options😍 In Hua Hin they have a great selection also. One of our favourites are flambé mussels and fish garlic 🧄 then a hole fish is covered and baked in garlic boats. Mmm really 😋 and scampi and lobster on the grill is never a bad option😋😋😋 We both like Thai style food. (Only thing is not to spicy for Mr😅) I have changed my dinner several times to save him from hot hell🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥🌶️

Phuket 🇹🇭 Oh, what a day😎🇹🇭 I ❤️ love Thailand 🇹🇭 I have visited every year since 2005 at least once a year. Only time not during Covid😩 I always go to Hua Hin. This was the first time in Phuket and we decided to go all-in for Phi Phi island. Tour was via the ship. I was in contact for private tours, but docking times was not good for making it back in time to the ship. (Very good decision!) It was 4 groups on our tour today. 25/26 guests in each group. So 4 buses/speed boats. We left the theatre on time and took the tender to land. The pier in Phuket is long, so a far way to walk before you are on land. (Important to know if you have a walking issue) Our tour guide was waiting a far stretch of walking from the pier. The tour numbers started at 39 on the pier end and we needed to go to nr 3😂😂😂 From there we needed to walk to the bus parking… So a decent tour on foot before we left for the bus👍🏻😂😎 You need to take a bus from this pier to another pier. It took 40.mins in the morning. At the pier they had toilets, water and coffee available to all guests. The speedboat ride is 1h to Phi Phi. Our first foto stop was the famous “the beach” movie spot. A million boats and people on the beach😂🇹🇭😎 Onward we moved to the caves. Foto stop. Then we continued to our snorkel reef. The reef was okay 👌🏻 lots of fish and decent visibility. For us a good time🐠🐟🐡 the water was warm and perfect for snorkelling 🤿 Not everyone on our boat had snorkel experience, so it was some arms and legs hitting wildly around the reef. Our guide did a great job explaining how to snorkel for them and helping them out into the water. After 45.minutes in the water, we moved onward to lunch. It was a Thai 🇹🇭 buffet. They served the classics from the Thai food. It tasted excellent 👌🏻 After lunchtime it was time to move onward to last stop. A little island you could snorkel 🤿 or just swim on the beach. At 16.30 it was departure time for our boat trip back to the pier. 1 h travel time on the boat again. On the pier, it was back on the bus. Due to rush hours, the guide said minimum 1h. So if everything was going well, we would be back in town to 18.30…. Well…. 😜 you probably understand where this is going🤣🤣🤣 We parked in the city centre 19.15… so after last tender😝 Not a huge problem, 100 people just from our Phi Phi groups…. And other ship tours were also delayed. So we arrived on the ship 20.00🙂 And still several tenders left to go before everyone was back onboard. The ship was ready to departure around 21.00. Then we raised the anchor ⚓️ and started to move. We needed to shower off and change. We decided quickly that tonight is buffet time…. We had a great Thai food luncheon and we had no interest of dressing up to Luminae…. Just to much to do after a long day😎 In the buffet, the rest of the ship was going also😝🤪🤣🤣🤣 Everyone was late back onboard😅 They had an Asian theme tonight and thanksgiving turkey. So plenty of options for everyone. Mr went for Ramen and I had some nachos😊 We had a great day to Phi Phi. We will definitely do an overnight there if we travel to Phuket on holiday. It was a long day and it’s lots of transportation. So keep that in mind. I will go thru the GoPro footage later tonight. Maybe Nemo is caught on tape🙃🐠🐟🐡

Phuket, 🇹🇭 A bit gray and foggy 😶‍🌫️ Fingers crossed it will clear up a little more during the day😎 We have a shore excursion: Meeting time 10.00. We had breakfast in Luminae. Menu: We asked for porches egg and avocado toast👍🏻

And for all Americans, Happy Thanksgiving❤️ May you have a great celebration by family and friends❤️ In Norway, we don’t celebrate it.

Cruise Compass Day 11, Phuket Thailand 🇹🇭

Tender information The Retreat, Phuket

Departure information on the bed:

Tonight’s show is Matt Hale. He is a hypnotist. So this can be fun or not😅 It’s fun if you like this type of humour and maybe not if you don’t… 😅 let’s just say it was 50/50. After the show we went to watch the flair show. They are getting into shape now🥳🥳 We had a chat by Mihail hotel director. Things are changing in the industry, so some things are for the better or worse. It’s has been harder to get senior crew back. So training is something that takes time and patience. After our chat, it was time to go for dinner. It was still a bit crowded, but people was eating desserts, so it calmed down quite quickly. Today’s menu: Chefs taste We had the asparagus for starter and then we ordered scallops, lobster and the lamb. So we had a little buffet bonanza😅 Lamb was much better then last time we tried a lamb dish😉 Food tasted good 👍🏻 sauce on the lobster was really tasty and not too strong of taste. So you had the taste of the lobster and the sauce😋 Dessert menu We had ice cream. The peanut gelato was extremely powerful. It was like eating a bag of nuts😅😅😅 So probably very good together by some chocolate or caramel sauce. By itself a bit overkill😅 After dinner it was time for bed…. The dreaded departure letter and tags had arrived on the bed😩

We picked up breakfast there from the self-service buffet this morning. We eat on the balcony in the retreat. We have had som cocktails before dinner 2 days. They have afternoon tea delights from 15.30-16.30 daily. It’s scones, fruit and sandwiches in minis. We rushed by once. They have a snack bar from 17.30 to 20.30. It’s nuts and fruits. They have 2 servers in the lounge taking orders for drinks. But at peak times it’s very busy. The self-service beverage is open 24/7 style. It’s sodas, water and sparkling water. A coffee machine and tea serving. It’s like an airport lounge style. and the retreat hostess has their “office” so they can help you during their work hours. Im not sure what I think about it…. It’s not that I hate it. I just don’t know what I think about the concept. In one way i feel a bit “airport” over it. On the other side I feel it’s a good place to be social. Specifically if you travel by friends in several suites. Then you have more space to meet and mingle. Personally it’s not worth double price compared to a veranda stateroom🫥 But that’s my opinion of it.

yes🙂 He is a very good captain. Very visible and seems like a very genuine good person🥰

Captains Club Senior Officers party, here we come🥰 Today’s party was all according to plan. Drinks, canapés and sweets 🍭🥂🍹🍸 Captain Matt introduced the entire family of senior officer crew and he was giving out diplomas to employees that reached 5, 10, 15 and 20 years in X 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍾🥂🥳

I woke up to clouds and showers of rain. The rain was drumming on our balcony. You could see the showers coming. I tried to have a family chat by my mother, she was in transit in Dubai from Thailand. She’s on the way home after a visit to Hua Hin. Connection was not great. So message worked well but no phone calls. I went upstairs to deliver the immigration cards to Thailand 🇹🇭 at 09.30. It was several people in the retreat. I went back downstairs to check on Mr. What was his wish…. We agreed that we should have breakfast on the balcony of the retreat. Since they have yoghurt, fruit, pastries and cold cuts. Then we would be able to sit outside under the roof and enjoy the food on a large table and walking distance of collecting all of it. It was almost empty when we arrived at 10.20. So we had a nice breakfast in the rain. Temperature was good, so no reason to sit inside. We had coffee and just enjoying life for a while. We went downstairs to change into pool clothes. It’s just showers of local rain, so no need to be sad. Go to the jacuzzi, enjoy the day and have fun🙃 We had some showers, but not a problem😎 Around 13.30 it started to clear up😎😎 So then it was time to move over to a sun lounger and play a round of Ludo🎲 at 15.30 we called it for today’s outdoor party 🎉 Don’t want to get grilled lobster 🦞 since we have a full day outside tomorrow😎 Its captain’s club senior officers party tonight at 17.15 in Eden. This was waiting on our bed back on arrival: Tender priority information for Phuket. Elite and above

It’s an amazing trip! love your photos and videos. We feel very confident that it’s a great trip for us in 2025❤️👍🏻 we made the correct decision to book it🤩