Castro and Millie Posted June 7, 2022 #1 Share Posted June 7, 2022 By 2.45 all tables were taken. Started serving early, at 2.50. By 3.00 the queue for a table was stretching outside the room. First course sandwiches. Second course savouries. Third course scones and cream. Fourth course, cakes. Plus copious cups of tea. A truly spectacular event and it was great to see the Queens Room with its buzz back. And numerous quests unable to move afterwards! Sadly no marmalade sandwiches though. I have some photos which I’ll endeavour to upload when I can. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace2542 Posted June 7, 2022 #2 Share Posted June 7, 2022 6 hours ago, Castro and Millie said: By 2.45 all tables were taken. Started serving early, at 2.50. By 3.00 the queue for a table was stretching outside the room. First course sandwiches. Second course savouries. Third course scones and cream. Fourth course, cakes. Plus copious cups of tea. A truly spectacular event and it was great to see the Queens Room with its buzz back. And numerous quests unable to move afterwards! Sadly no marmalade sandwiches though. I have some photos which I’ll endeavour to upload when I can. Did they have the swan shaped cakes they used to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castro and Millie Posted June 7, 2022 Author #3 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Didn’t see any Ace, majority of cakes were decorated with red, white and blue. Tasted great though! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted June 7, 2022 #4 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Is Arthur still enjoying himself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porsena Posted June 7, 2022 #5 Share Posted June 7, 2022 We had no idea, when we booked our June 4th cruise to Alaska, that it would begin on the weekend celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Appropriately, the galley laid on a special tea in the Queen’s Room. Racks of sweets and a large ice sculpture of the lion, and unicorn with the Royal coat of arms flanked a large cake decorated as the Union Jack. The tea-time sandwiches were supplemented by savouries and a wide variety of small cakes, sweets and chocolates. With just 939 passenger aboard, the sailing feels uncrowded, but there was a line of people awaiting others to finish so they could get seats for the Jubilee tea. Yesterday’s ports speaker told us that Sitka would be a tender port. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted June 7, 2022 #6 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Thank you for the photos, it looks lovely 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castro and Millie Posted June 8, 2022 Author #7 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Cheers porsena, it saved me the trouble of struggling to upload my photos! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castro and Millie Posted June 8, 2022 Author #8 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Yes he is exlondoner, today we were in Haines so he saw some of his relatives! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castro and Millie Posted June 8, 2022 Author #9 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Beautiful Haines 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace2542 Posted June 8, 2022 #10 Share Posted June 8, 2022 14 hours ago, porsena said: We had no idea, when we booked our June 4th cruise to Alaska, that it would begin on the weekend celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Appropriately, the galley laid on a special tea in the Queen’s Room. Racks of sweets and a large ice sculpture of the lion, and unicorn with the Royal coat of arms flanked a large cake decorated as the Union Jack. The tea-time sandwiches were supplemented by savouries and a wide variety of small cakes, sweets and chocolates. With just 939 passenger aboard, the sailing feels uncrowded, but there was a line of people awaiting others to finish so they could get seats for the Jubilee tea. Yesterday’s ports speaker told us that Sitka would be a tender port. Strange that you had to tender. The NCL Bliss pulled into Sitka. Was there more than 1 ship in port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Wonderland Posted June 13, 2022 #11 Share Posted June 13, 2022 On 6/8/2022 at 3:10 PM, ace2542 said: Strange that you had to tender. The NCL Bliss pulled into Sitka. Was there more than 1 ship in port? I checked the sailing track. QE eventually berthed at pier last Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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