Rare Silver Spectre Posted September 22, 2012 Author #51 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Suffering from Japanese Internet prohibition so only have a small window to post before going home. God, Jimmy K has been really devious at Trivia on this trip, but excellent nevertheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelcat2 Posted September 22, 2012 #52 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Thank you so much for all of your posts!:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare WesW Posted September 23, 2012 #53 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Duct Tape, don't care if you're one of the wrinklees, your posts on this SS board are invaluable, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Silver Spectre Posted September 23, 2012 Author #54 Share Posted September 23, 2012 ging466 and SilverSpectre, thanx so much for your posts. I have been on the Cloud and waited until home to catch up on CC. Sounds like a great trip. Geez, I guess I am one of the wrinklees!...and pleased to be!..it sure beats the alternatives. Fair winds and calm seas as we say on the water. Apologies dt, technically I am also a wrinklee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Silver Spectre Posted September 23, 2012 Author #55 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Whoops, didn't mean to upset anyone. Arrived in Tokyo this morning and apparently it has been raining since yesterday evening and it is not forecast to stop until tomorrow afternoon. They have had a dry summer here and really need the rain. Disembarkation was extremely smooth, if a little delayed. Sad to say goodbye to both old and new friends, both guests and staff. We had 145 guests and 263 crew, so this was a pretty quiet trip. Trivia was outstanding, as was the bridge. Captain also gets off today and flies home to Genoa, and is replaced by the Panama Box captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ging466 Posted September 23, 2012 #56 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hey, I was one of those wrinklies and I'm not a wrinkly (I don't think) :D I'm at Narita now waiting for my flight home to Sydney. It was a great cruise, even though the weather wasn't that great. Raining cats and dogs in Tokyo and during our city tour this morning, a lot of us didn't want to get out of the bus and get drenched....me included:) Can't wait to pick up my kitty, Phoebe, tomorrow. It was a real pleasure meeting Mr & Mrs Silver Spectre. We had a super Trivia Team. Cheers Jennifer P.S. I'll write a review and put it in the Review Section when I get a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare WesW Posted September 23, 2012 #57 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Thanks Jennifer/ging466 and Silver Spectre for taking us along you Shadow/Asia voyage. Please, have a safe journey home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipb Posted September 23, 2012 #58 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hi Jennifer. Have only just latched on to this thread and seen your posts. Sounds like you had a good time apart from the weather. I will ring you next weekend after you have had time to re-acclimatise to Sydney. Philip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare RachelG Posted September 23, 2012 #59 Share Posted September 23, 2012 If you get a chance, would you tell us a bit about the stops in Japan. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Silver Spectre Posted September 24, 2012 Author #60 Share Posted September 24, 2012 If you get a chance, would you tell us a bit about the stops in Japan. Thanks! Stopped in Hakodate, a large port city on the southern tip of the northern Island, and finished the trip by getting off in Tokyo. Currently at Narita on my home and will post more later in the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelcat2 Posted September 25, 2012 #61 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Did anyone attend any of the culinary classes/lunches/shopping visits? Do you recall which ports they were held? Thanks much. Jackie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigella Posted September 25, 2012 #62 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Hi Jennifer, glad that you had a great cruise. It does seem that your butler Allan is the same lovely and very helpful chap who was our butler on the Spirit. We gave him a special mention in our comments form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Silver Spectre Posted September 25, 2012 Author #63 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Did anyone attend any of the culinary classes/lunches/shopping visits? Do you recall which ports they were held? Thanks much. Jackie Hi TC2, the only market visit was in Hakodate, which was absolutely fascinating, and included David fishing out a live cuttlefish and then eating a raw, wrigling tentacle immediately after it was killed. He did three lunches (all the same) in Le Champagne, again excellent. Didn't go to any of the clashes, one of which was cancelled because of bad weather. He also participated in all of the cooking shows, again excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruisinPashmina Posted September 26, 2012 #64 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Can anyone please tell us who are the Maitre D's in the MDR and in La Terrassa? Who is the CD? We'll be boarding the Shadow on October 13 for a B2B...Tokyo to Bangkok. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ging466 Posted October 4, 2012 #65 Share Posted October 4, 2012 U can read my review here: http://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=109544 Sorry about the crazy typing in the La Terrazza paragraph. Phoebe must have trodden on the keyboard and I didn't realise. :D:D Cheers Jennifer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duct tape Posted October 4, 2012 #66 Share Posted October 4, 2012 ging466, really enjoyed the review and appreciate the time it took to organize it and then do it. Glad you had a good trip. We will probably never do that one since everyone I have met who has done it, complains about the seas and the weather. You're a trooper! (That is a good thing here in the States). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare RachelG Posted October 4, 2012 #67 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Thanks for the review, Jennifer. The explanation we received for the carafes of water rather than bottled water was that they were trying to "go green". Don't know if that is really true or just an excuse for money saving, but that's what we were told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duct tape Posted October 4, 2012 #68 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I think it's true. SS has purchased and installed, on each ship, a sophisticated desalinization and filter process for water. It obviously gets rid of plastic bottles, decreases their refuse and tastes good too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Silver Spectre Posted October 4, 2012 Author #69 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Can anyone please tell us who are the Maitre D's in the MDR and in La Terrassa? Who is the CD? We'll be boarding the Shadow on October 13 for a B2B...Tokyo to Bangkok. Thanks! Gilbert is the MD in the MDR, cannot remember the name of the guy in La Terrazza, but he is brand new to SS. Jimmy K is the CD, and his trivia has gotten pretty mean. He should have gotten off in Tokyo this time, and may be getting off when you get on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Silver Spectre Posted October 4, 2012 Author #70 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I think it's true. SS has purchased and installed, on each ship, a sophisticated desalinization and filter process for water. It obviously gets rid of plastic bottles, decreases their refuse and tastes good too! Except there is still bottled water available for the gym and the jogging track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Silver Spectre Posted October 4, 2012 Author #71 Share Posted October 4, 2012 U can read my review here: http://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=109544 Sorry about the crazy typing in the La Terrazza paragraph. Phoebe must have trodden on the keyboard and I didn't realise. :D:D Cheers Jennifer Excellent and well balanced review Jennifer, and thanks for the plug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ging466 Posted October 5, 2012 #72 Share Posted October 5, 2012 thanks for the plug. :) Can u resend the friend request on FB as I didn't get it? I can't find your email address...My post to u got deleted overnight. Cheers Jennifer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare WesW Posted October 5, 2012 #73 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Echo Silver Spectre's excellent review comments Jennifer, delight to read, balanced, esp enjoyed that personal touch--mentioning by name in your review of the crew and pax that went above & beyond & mildy below (e.g. Prof Herb singing of somewhere over the rainbow). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigtraveller Posted October 11, 2012 #74 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Many thanks to ging466 and SS for the informative posts about this cruise, and for the cruise review. I am thinking of doing this cruise in 2013, so read this thread with interest. ging466 in relation to the Tokyo tour and transfer to NRT, can you recall what time you arrived at NRT? Trying to estimate how much waiting time at the airport I will have before checkin for QF22 would open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ging466 Posted October 12, 2012 #75 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Many thanks to ging466 and SS for the informative posts about this cruise, and for the cruise review. I am thinking of doing this cruise in 2013, so read this thread with interest. ging466 in relation to the Tokyo tour and transfer to NRT, can you recall what time you arrived at NRT? Trying to estimate how much waiting time at the airport I will have before checkin for QF22 would open. Hi zigtraveller We were dropped at Narita at 1500 and the Qantas check-in opened at 1700. Narita has free wifi so the 2 hours passed very quickly for me. :) Cheers Jennifer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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