Day two in Singapore. Love this place. Clean city with very friendly people who speak English as their first language. To be another very warm day with thunderstorms forecast in the afternoon. It is 93 degrees at 3pm and no rain yet.
LAST EVENING
This evening
there is an exclusive World Cruise shoreside experience for world cruise
passengers. The tour ticket calls it an
“Illuminated Evening by the Bay”. At 5pm
we will be bused to the enchanting Singapore Gardens by the Bay. It is a stunning display of architecture with
the flower dome, the world’s largest glass greenhouse. It showcases a beautiful and unique display
of plant species from around the world.
We will be able to view the bay from the “water view room”, where we
will enjoy canapes and cocktails. Then
we will dine beneath an illuminated “field” of flowers blanketing the ceiling
in Flower Field Hall while there is a stage performance featuring the beauty
and culture of Singapore. We should
return to the ship around 9pm.
Arriving at the Garden. We had to walk couple hundred yards from bus to venue.
Greeted by two young ladies
The singer was very good with great song selections BUT way too loud.
Menus: One fish entree and other the beef entree.
Rebecca's fish. Both fish and beef was very good as was the appetizer and soup.
Overall this was not a fun evening. We and MANY others were not pleased and would never do it again. Too many WCer's in the venue (around 500 of us). I got some feedback about it from a friend this morning when getting our coffees. He said they were not served until a lot of people were leaving and several more couples never did get served. We could not see the Malaysian dancers from our table. A red and white wine were served and not that great but they kept our glasses from being dry. I would like to know how many bottles of wine were served. Hundreds I would guess. There is to be another World Cruise Special Event in Namibia, Africa. I have heard many of our WC friends say they will not attend as just toooooo many people. We did the special event there back when on our 2010 WC. It was very nice but only half the number back then.
TODAY
This is a turn-around day. I mean end of a segment so some passengers leaving and other arriving. As I mentioned I will be meeting Marcia, Richard, & Harvey in the theater just before 10am as we will be doing the "Singapore by Boat & Trishaw" tour.
This is the four of us tour bus. Another very nice one and good air conditioning. Need it today as it is
Took this photo of the sign--Boat Quay
As I said at the last stop, Marina Bay Sands, the four us took a taxi back to the ship. We specifically told the taxi driver which cruise terminal we wanted but he took us to the other (newer) one to start with. A little out of the way but fare was still just $12.
I logged onto the cruise terminal's wifi to upload today's photos. That did not take long so back through Immigration check one last time. Back on the ship I dropped off my passport back at Reception Desk. Dropped my stuff in the suite and washed my hands well before heading up to La Veranda for a late lunch (1:30). At lunch I confirmed with Dominic our Prime 7 reservation tomorrow night to celebrate our anniversary.
It is now 3pm as I am finishing up today's post. New passengers arriving today. We had to relog on to the ship's internet. We have to do this at the beginning of every segment. This new segment is 17 nights long and only 5 days at sea so lots of ports. It will end in Dubai on April 16th.
We will be sailing again at 5pm and will be docking at Port Klang, port for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, tomorrow morning at 8am. I am scheduled to do an 8 hour tour tomorrow and not back to the ship until around 4:30pm. OOPS! Change of plans! This is our 4th time to this port so I looked back at those blogs and found I did a tour very similar to the one planned for tomorrow. So I am not going on the LONG tour but will repost the blog post we did on a 2013 cruise that shows the same tour places and photos I would be getting tomorrow.
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