As we were going to dock nbr.1 (That is all the way in the corner) we were in position by 07.00 hrs. due to the other ships following us, well ahead of our scheduled docking time. In the old days there used to be the “Pink Hotel” and a nice open air Pub on the… read more of “30 Nov. 2016;…”
San Juan is a port which is often on the cruise schedules with an abnormal arrival time. Whereas in most ports we are docked by 08.00 in the morning and stay a full day, San Juan is the exception to the norm. They only time ships seem to arrive there early is when it is… read more of “29 Nov. 2016; San…”
Last evening we sailed out of the protection of the Bahamas and Cuba and came into the open waters of the North Atlantic. The area is fairly quiet, or better said the North Atlantic further North of us is fairly quiet as there is not much of a swell rolling in and thus the Oosterdam… read more of “28 Nov. 2016; At…”
As usual we had to wait for the sun to set before we could leave the dock in Key West. Because it was nice weather with only a gentle breeze in the afternoon, everything that floated was up and about and thus it took some doing to get the ship into the turning basin and… read more of “27 Nov. 2016; At…”
Because we left Tampa exactly on time, we also managed to arrive in Key West exactly on time. As mentioned last cruise, the time /distance between Tampa and Key West is really tight and 30 minutes late from Tampa automatically means 30 minutes late in Key West. Luckily for the rest of the cruise we… read more of “26 Nov. 2016; Key…”
We were lucky, or better said the ships that arrived after us were lucky, as the fog did not materialize. The temperature balance between air, land and water was not such that water condensation occurred which is what fog basically is. Still better safe than sorry and the good ship Oosterdam was happily docked well… read more of “25 Nov. 2016;…”
The weather forecast sort of came out but in stages. In the early morning it was miserable with rain and wind. By midmorning the clouds and rain were gone and a nice sun was shining. Still very windy and with the wind on the bow it blew a near hurricane force over the exposed bow… read more of “24 Nov. 2016; At…”
Costa Maya is an artificial place, a resort created out of nothing. They basically picked a spot where they could build a T pier into deep water and then attached a resort to it. The T pier can take three big ships and the resort can handle the amount of about 7000 to 8000 guests… read more of “23 Nov. 2016; Costa…”
