Day Four We are in San Diego for another day. Do you remember our mix up with night light tour from the previous day with Old Town Trolleys well we were fortunate to receive a refund for it. Waking up this morning we noticed another Dam ship was docked in San Diego. It was the Koningsdam with a maximum passenger capacity of 2,600 while our ship has a maximum capacity of 684 passengers. This ship was massive compared to ours. A brief history lesson now. Juan...

Day Three brought us to the wonderful city of San Diego. For some of the Around the World passengers it was the second time that they visited the city as they had stopped on the way from Miami. San Diego, named after Saint Didacus, is the eight largest city in the United States and second largest city in the state of California. As mentioned in the previous blog we were intending to visit San Francisco where Oceania had planned two full days of tours. Janice an...

Day Two Our first sea day originally scheduled to sail to San Francisco was changed as the authorities in the port of San Francisco decided that everyone on board needed to have a PCR test before leaving the ship. This would have been very time consuming so the decision to sail here was cancelled and the ship sailed south to San Diego. Cool and cloudy temperatures were the norm for the day. I joined a Trivia team that includes four Americans, a transplated Par...

Day One Embarkation Day! Both of us are very excited that the day has finally come. Having registered with the Oceania representative at the hotel the previous day we were advised to meet at 9:45 for the bus trip to the main cruise port terminal in Los Angeles. Our luggage was collected from our rooms and delivered to the ship along with a dozen bottles of Acrobat wine purchased earlier from the nearest wine establishment. While waiting at the meeting area I o...

Here we go... Our flight to Los Angeles was with Southwest Airlines. This is the first time with them and were pleasantly surprised. The airline does not provide reserved seating but Janice and I purchased Business Select ($137) which allows you to board the plane first. On the suggestion of our friend Tom, we made our way to the back of the plane avoiding passengers who would have passed us if we had seated ourselves at the front. We were still being very ca...