The One with the In-Laws- P&O Iona Fjords April ‘23.Day 3-Stavanger

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17th April Stavanger

Well it was a bad nights sleep and nanan woke everyone up calling at 6.45 to let us know they were going to the buffet for breakfast. We got up,showered and ready and down to the buffet for about 7.45. The kids had pancakes, I had pastries and Scott had some full English, it wasn’t as good as yesterdays at all.

Back to the cabin to see if I could sort Georgias trainers but couldn’t in that time. Maybe another day. The plan for today was the swords and that’s all. The captain came on to say that we were docked so we got ready and went ashore.

Scott ordered an Uber. It was about a 10mins waiting, 15mins ride and cost me about £18. Cheaper than P&O excursions and there was no one there so they all played taking photos of the swords and then it stated to get busy so we ordered another Uber back to town for £17.
Nearly got attacked by a crazy swan. Very beautiful place though.

Stopped at Starbucks for toilet, didn’t buy anything though whoops. Plan was to have a walk around town, then go and get the cinnamon bun then to the pub. We had a little round the town and only bought some chocolate, stupid me thought they weren’t too expensive and they turned out to be £9+! Best not make that mistake again. They were quite nice though. And it’s holiday money so who’s really counting.

We walked to the canning museum as there is supposed to be a nice bakery opposite that I was told about on a forum but that was closed

So we went back to the bar we used last time called Beverly Hills Fun Pub. Scott had 4 beers and we shared coke and lemonade. It was lovely sat in the sun. It was the same pub we came to the year before and we always really enjoy it. Lovey Viking bloke working here that the kids say I fancied. He was nice looking till he came out from behind the bar and was a lot shorter than me. We also met him back in August 2022 when we came here but obviously he didn’t remember us.

With nothing much else to do we got back on the ship and had some lunch. Me and Georgia had katsu curry and Scott and Scarlett had fish and chips. We went back to the room to sort out an eBay payment and tried to decide if to do the kids club or to do pool. The kids chose the pool so we went up to the hot tubs on deck 17. They were packed and they spotted nanan so we all went to the infinity pool on deck 18. Again it’s so busy and grandad went in the pool with the kids so even though I had my costume on I didn’t bother to go in. Too many cooks and all that.

The kids had a good 20mins in there and then when dried and dressed they went with nanan to play football and basketball while me and Scott had a sunbathe. Us and the kids went back to the cabin to decide what to do for the night. We were going to go get a cocktail but decided to have a coffee in our room instead, we have booked a table for 6 people at the opal for 5.30pm. Haven’t even seen the menu to check if we even want to go there so it will be a nice surprise.

Dressed and ready for dinner at 5.30pm when it opened.

Me and Scott had kofta for starters

For mains it was brisket

For desert it was Apple strudel.

Scarlett had sausage mash carrots and gravy. The concentration in trying to pour the gravy 😂

Georgia had chips, nuggets and sweetcorn.

Both with ice cream for pudding. We did go to eat with Tracey and Steve but I don’t know what they had as I wasn’t paying attention and they get funny about me taking photos of food. The service does seem really slow to clean the table etc and the drinks. It took us 1.5hours which is longer than usual for Iona.

We went up to the sky dome to get a seat for the rock show

about 15mins waiting, the kids got some more chips and in laws got drinks. We weren’t so bothered for drinks or food. Well the band were crap in there, not sure if it’s the songs or because of the acoustics but they were murdering all the rock songs we love, it was awful, really couldn’t stay here. It was 7.40 and we decided to swap to the comedian at 8pm as if not we would be waiting till 9.30. So Scott went down and got some seats and text me to let me know. We went down there and I remembered I’d forgotten pop and crisps from the cabin,naughty I know but they didn’t have the drink I wanted in the club house, you’d think Coke would have been an easy order so I went back up for them and me and the kids had those while Scott had beer.

We watched the show and it was quite funny. Not sure the kids understood most of it though. We were done by 9pm and all tired so back up to the cabin, as we past the buffet we got another pudding. Scott made me a coffee in the cabin and planned for tomorrow. The kids want to go swimming first thing so that’s what we are going to do if we are up early enough. Bed for 10.30.