A shorter lie in after being kept awake by 6052 banging the headboard and groaning during the night because I wanted to get our disembarkation time changed and, unlike most other cruise lines, you can ONLY do it via the tours office which opens when it feels like. 9.45am disembark for Gold 4 was too long to wait so I went down and the earliest she would give was Gold 1 at 9.20am. She said she couldn't give me any earlier because it was for suites "and they've paid for it." Right so as a Platinum World Club member with priority check-in and embarkation, I couldn't get priority disembarkation. How bloody stupid is that???? We have a lounge to wait in but did I get that information? There were orange disembarkation labels but nothing on the sheet about them. Also, other cruise lines have suites but you can still go much earlier.
Shopping to spend the last of the onboard credit, since they don't refund even when it's your money. I told Rob I would meet him on the observation deck but he missed the noon whistle due to being stuck in the queue. I waited for him in the cabin and heard Mr "QUIET!" deliberately pop a cork into the sea before proudly saying, "bye bye, cork" and returning inside. So that miserable git only used his balcony to smoke his cigars on and pollute the sea yet had the nerve to tell us, who spent a lot of time out there the entire week, to be quiet on the first sea day. Couldn't help wondering if it was a coincidence we never saw them when we had the other two. Lunch then I had a nap as I was getting the start of a sinus headache from the cold and rain, so Rob enjoyed the sun on the balcony. He woke me up to tell me we'd hit fog - wooo! We also had a foggy rainbow, which I'd never seen before but Rob pointed it out. Up to the observation deck to see what else was about! There were a couple of other horns around somewhere but soon it cleared - boo! We spent a couple of hours in the Commodore Club as more fog appeared. I went to photograph it and it was as weird as that I'd had in Malaga on the new Royal Princess.
Another sodding informal night with luggage having to be out by midnight. We went ship spotting, as the AIS wrongly slowed Celebrity Eclipse close by when she was, in fact, nearer Dover. We did spot Costa Voyager tootling about in the hazy distance though killing time before Harwich in the morning. Then to dinner! Rob noticed he'd accidentally left the internet connected to his iPad instead of turning it off after using his last couple of minutes. We said goodbye to our table companions a bit earlier to go and see how much he was charged for that extra hour plus and thankfully there was enough money left in the onboard credit to cover it - phew! Such a relief my £0.00 bill would stay that way and for Rob too as he was incredibly worried. Once we put the cases out, we went to see where we were and found us passing Dover then wandered the decks. One of the lights was flickering and it took me ages to get it actually on. Later, from the comfort of the cabin, we spotted (just!) Aurora and Adonia then about 1.30am, he saw AIDAstella through the window. I was to tired I couldn't hold the camera straight.
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