I had a bad night but never noticed the Captain’s promised
hour of rough seas. I woke to the fog horn constantly blaring, drowning in
yellow snot and with a fever.
Not a great day. We had such an excellent trip to SE Alaska
with Alaskan Dream Cruise that any mainstream line would fare poorly in comparison.
But, Oceania seems like they are trying to do poorly or else they care about
something else like profit over customer satisfaction.
Our day was to begin here at 11am today. That was true well
before final payment. It was sold and scheduled as a docked port from day one
to the day we arrived onboard. If you looked at the destinations brochure or
your tour tickets that day, you learned then that we are tendering in Juneau.
There were 2 ships here when we arrived and a 3rd was docked before
we left. That left plenty of dock space for us as the smallest ship, but
presumably it was cheaper to tender. Then there is O’s Regatta Lounge wait for
a tender ticket policy. It took us about an hour to get ashore this morning. Which
gave us plenty of time to meet our 12:55pm tour but little else. On the way back
we arrived to a tender just casting off and were asked to step aside and leave
a path as the next arriving tender had a medical emergency on it to be removed
to an ambulance. That tender went back without any passengers on it. We waited
longer for the original tender to tie up and prepare for us. We waited almost
an hour from the moment we walked up to under way. If there was an emergency,
then why didn’t Regatta drop a dedicated tender to handle it instead of letting
100 people stand in the cold for an hour? The tendering when there was dock space
was slap in the face enough, but then in an emergency to not think first of the
passengers. Unbelievable.
We got off to a bad start when we left to room at 7am to
find breakfast didn’t begin until 7:30am. Then our cabin didn’t get serviced
even though we stayed out until 9am. I wanted to watch Kong:Skull Island on TV
since we had missed it. So we changed the service sign and stayed in until
10:45am when tendering was announced thereby missing the end of the movie anyway.
We had set and watched the fog shifting from Horizons Lounge for over an hour
after breakfast.
It was cold all day today. It was supposed to reach 60F but
the sun never burned through. We had another O included tour here. It was
Flavors of Juneau. We went to Mendenhall Glacier for an hour. Since we had gone
to the waterfall last trip we walked up to the Visitor’s center and watched the
18-minute film. We had about 10 minutes left over to walk to the bear viewing
area where we had seen a couple of red salmon last time as well as a baby
porcupine. Nothing today. We did see several bald eagles today though. Next we
had an hour long cooking demo of salmon and blueberries served with local
Chardonnay. Finally, 20 minutes to visit Alaskan Brewing for 3 tastings. Clay had
all of both of ours and liked all but the Smoked Porter.
Back aboard now and Clay is ready for dinner. I need to save this and get changed. I will post now and assume I find nothing else to
complain about the rest of the evening.
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