Our Magical Westbound Transatlantic Voyage: September 2010

[Jools]

Great report Sarah Like you I found the locals in Madeira way too pushy and 'in your face'. I'll probbaly stay on board this year

[bex272]

We are booked on wbta this year so loving the report, I have been wondering how the time difference works is it 1 hour a day for 5 days?

[Maz]

You have an extra hour between Gibraltar and Madeira, though i can't remember if it is the Gibraltar night or the sea day night. Then after Madeira it is 5 nights in a row, but I can't remember if it includes the Madeira night or if it starts the first sea day. all a blur of wonderfully lazy 25 hour days! So 6 in all. I have to say though, and I know some others will agree, it did feel like they were taking the hours away as we were so tired.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Maz

You have an extra hour between Gibraltar and Madeira, though i can't remember if it is the Gibraltar night or the sea day night. Then after Madeira it is 5 nights in a row, but I can't remember if it includes the Madeira night or if it starts the first sea day. all a blur of wonderfully lazy 25 hour days! So 6 in all. I have to say though, and I know some others will agree, it did feel like they were taking the hours away as we were so tired.

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Thats exactly how I felt .. was totally exhausted doing those sea days. Kept wanting to go to bed after dinner

[Maz]

Originally Posted by DisneyPirate

Thats exactly how I felt .. was totally exhausted doing those sea days. Kept wanting to go to bed after dinner

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Our dinner usually ended so late it was bed time! But then we are old, unlike you youngster!

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Maz

Our dinner usually ended so late it was bed time! But then we are old, unlike you youngster!

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That is so debatable Marilyn ... the you = old, me = youngster thing.
I think we sort of merge in the middle

[Maz]

Perhaps, maybe, well on those evenings when we were tired then yes!

We were on late dining again on the PC cruise just gone, but one night we went up for dinner at Beach Blanket(Topsiders on Magic). We went early, 6.45pm, and of course it wasn't a long meal. Well we were so tired we could have gone to bed by 8pm, pathetic! So, we changed our early seating on this cruise back to late or I fear we would be going to bed so early every night. At least at late dinner it keeps you awake(up to a point anyway)

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Maz

Perhaps, maybe, well on those evenings when we were tired then yes!

We were on late dining again on the PC cruise just gone, but one night we went up for dinner at Beach Blanket(Topsiders on Magic). We went early, 6.45pm, and of course it wasn't a long meal. Well we were so tired we could have gone to bed by 8pm, pathetic! So, we changed our early seating on this cruise back to late or I fear we would be going to bed so early every night. At least at late dinner it keeps you awake(up to a point anyway)

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I know what you mean. The meal generally finished about 10 ish and then if there was a late show we wanted to see we went to that, after that it was walk on the deck and then bed. Once we went to a movie after dinner and we had to leave becasue we were both nodding off

[Jools]

Originally Posted by Maz

Our dinner usually ended so late it was bed time! But then we are old, unlike you youngster!

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I don't know about that Maz. I seem to remember you and John off to socialise in the Cove cafe after dinner. I even went with you on one occasion. I've been thinking about the dining rotation too. I don't know what to go for early (so I can be greedy at the dessert party) or late, so I can loaf about at the pool until 6pm like I did most days last year. Ah decisions, decisions...

[Guest]

Thats one thing I definitely want to do this time ... make it to one of the Cove Cafe night-time gatherings