Holiday Special - Superstar Virgo

We are back from a very wonderful 1st time cruise experience. Both Anthea and Anders Love the cruise and said they want to go for another cruise again.

Our Free & Easy cruise trip became a FUN PACKED schedule. Well, all because, Star Cruise had planned out so many events for the family.

23 Nov – Day 1:

5 pm: Check in at Harbour Front Cruise centre with my parent in laws. We booked a maxi cab since there were 6 of us.

Upon boarding, the children were excited to see such a big Ship and they were sleeping onboard.

Went to our cabin and it had whatever a normal hotel room had plus a Balcony. (This is my 1st time in a cabin so all these while, I had imagined otherwise. The children were happy with the cabin and they started playing their toys in the cabin.

6 pm – 8 pm: Met with my in-laws for dinner at the Pavilion – Chinese set dinner. Food was good.

9 pm – 9.15 pm: Meet and Greet with Mr. Bean.

9.15 pm – 9.45 pm: Family Funtime Welcome party

9.30 pm - 10.45 pm: Showtime : The Musicians of Bremen. It was a Live Musical and we were all impressed by the cast.

11.30 pm – Supper on board. The spread consisted of congee, fried noodles, pizzas, prata and desserts. After supper, we headed back to our cabin and the children slept almost near 1 am. (Record time)

24 Nov – Day 2:

Woke up a bit late, almost 9.30am and then realized that Breakfast serving ends at 10 am.
We quickly washed up and headed to Bella Vista for our continental set breakfast.

Both Anthea and Anders had their usual half boiled eggs with serving of sausages, baked beans and bread. There are side tables which had cornflakes, salads, fruits and bread. So we had quite a filling breakfast.

11.30 – 12 noon: Mr. Bean show. Anthea had the chance to take photo with Mr. Bean, Mrs. Wicket & Erma, Mr. Bean’s girlfriend.

12.30 pm – 1.30 pm: Fun at the Wet & Wild pool.

2 pm – 3pm: Tea break at the Taverna. We had club sandwiches, pizzas and burgers. As we had credits, thus we can use it on dinning.

3.30 pm – 5.30 pm: power nap

While the children and Adrian had their power nap, I went to the gym and did some workouts. After so much of food, I need a jog badly…hee : P

7 pm – 8.30 pm : Dinner at Bella Vista ( Had Western set meals – Prawn cocktail, soup, Snapper Fillet and crepe with Ice-cream)

9 pm – 10.30 pm: Watched movie at the picture house “Jump In”. Anthea requested that she wanted to watch the movie.

Then after the movie, we went back to our cabin to change and the children had their milk. Then Anthea went to my In-laws cabin to room in with them. The reason is on the 1st night when she slept with Adrian, he could hardly sleep as she tends to move around quite a fair bit.

So my in-laws were very nice to offer to let Anthea sleep with them. So Adrian can have a good night of rest. After we brought Anthea to my In Laws cabin, 3 of us went to the lounge for congee buffet as Adrian need to take some food before his medication. I bought some fed tablets from the Duty Free shop.

25 Nov – Day 3:

8 am – 9.30 am: Breakfast at Bella Vista

10 am – 11 am: Prepare for disembarkation

11.30 am: Home sweet home

It was another fruitful and eventful trip / cruise for the Aces family. We had loads of fun and most important, we spend quality time as a family. And for the children, having their ye ye and nai nai with them were additional bonus.

NOTE: one of my colleague is quite a regular at Star cruise. When she knew that i got my cabin card, she told me to go & buy 4D. She said so far Cruise numbers are quite LUCKY. So upon hearing her GOLDEN ADVICE, we bought the cabin number & we hit the "Starters Prize"..hmm, no bad for a 1st time cruisers.