We sailed on Royal Caribbean's "Legend of the Seas" - a 2000+ passenger ship, which by today's standards is a mid-size ship! The ship underwent a renovation recently and looks lovely!
I'll be writing future posts on each of the itinerary stops with a short video of the pictures taken - it would be too long a post to cover it all!
The ports we visited were:
Stockholm, Sweden (Overnight)
Helsinki, Finland
St. Petersburg, Russia (2 nites)
Tallinn, Estonia
Riga, Latvia
Klaipeda, Lithuania
A day at Sea
Warnemunde, Germany
Fredericia, Denmark (the first cruise ship to ever dock there!)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Day at Sea
Arrival and Disembarkation at Hamburg, Germany
The cruise began as follows:
We arrived to Stockholm Airport and after collecting our luggage, we were greeted by Royal Caribbean's "greeters". As more guests arrived we boarded the motorcoach for the comfortable ride to the cruise ship terminal....ahhh!
The check-in process was smooth: we tagged our large bags with our cabin number and surrendered them to cruise personnel (we kept our hand luggage with us). We then checked in at a desk where we were given the key cards to our room which were also our ID cards to disembark & embark at each port and served as an "account card" for any onboard charges (tours, bars, shops, etc). And then we boarded the ship - what a fabulous main lobby! We quickly made our way to our room and our cabin steward introduced himself to us - we'd later come to find that he would magically/mysteriously slip into our room and tidy it up every morning and turned down the bed for us every evening...it was delightful! The room was immaculate.
As we began unpacking our small hand luggage, our two suitcases arrived! With plenty of storage on board, we started unpacking so we could start investigating the ship....then the phone rang! Our friends had arrived earlier and were eager to meet up...15 minutes later we were hugging and ready to start celebrating our vacations! Up to the Crown Lounge at the top of the ship! (This was to become our regular "hang out"!) We relaxed over a bottle of wine and planned for an early dinner and good night's sleep aboard as we had a few hours the next day to walk through Stockholm...
This post is a quick snapshot of the ship!
Fifi
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