Holiday travel tips and experiences: cruise suites

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Seychelles Suite On Holiday Cruise Ship Star Cruise Virgo 4th Sept – 6th Sept 2009 Day 3

Day 3

As per our usual routine, we went to Bella Vista Restaurant to have a leisurely Western breakfast. You could also have Chinese selection here if you opt to in a separate section of the restaurant. At the western section where we were seated, you could have a breakfast food choice of Continental or Asian food. For the Continental selection, you could help yourself to the cereals, croissants, Danish pastries, muffins, bread, cheese and cold cuts as well. For the Western special of the day, you could have Eggs Benedict - 2 poached eggs set on muffin & pork ham gratinated with sauce Hollandaise. The Asian special of the day was fried vegetarian bee hoon noodles.

Western breakfast special

Asian Special

Omelette & Hash brown

This weekend being the start of the week long school holidays, MindChamps which deals with development of children were also on board. Over the whole of next week, they would be conducting various workshops based on the theme ‘be A Champion At Sea’ when children can embark on a voyage of discovery.

Some harbour pictures as we were sailing into Singapore

Whilst waiting to disembark, we were all seated in the cruise suite cabin enjoying each others' company and reminiscing about how time just flew by whilst we were on board the Star Cruise Virgo.

In the Seychelles Suite on board the holiday cruise ship

The holiday cruise ship docked around 1100 hrs and we waited till about 1130 hrs before getting the cruise staff to help push mother in her wheelchair. We were hoping to avoid the crowds. On the way to the immigration and customs, we saw more than ten wheelchair passengers. Now we know why the four handicapped cabins on board the Star Cruise Virgo were not available for us to book. A lesson to note for the future:- If we are going on board again in the future with mother in a wheelchair, we would need to book in advance in order to get the handicapped cabin.

This has been a wonderful holiday cum birthday celebration on board the holiday cruise ship Star Cruise Virgo. It was of course made more enjoyable by us having a cruise suite room as well as being able to record down the dragon beard candy demonstration. At the same time, we managed to experience the how the handicapped cruise.

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Seychelles Suite On Holiday Cruise Ship Star Cruise Virgo 4th Sept – 6th Sept 2009

Holiday Cruise Ship SuperStar Virgo

Day 1

This is the first time we have gone on board the holiday cruise ship Star Cruise Line since mother fractured her hip bone and went for an operation. There were a total of 14 family members gathered for this cruise as it was going to be another birthday celebration as well. Fortunately for us, on board Star Cruise, wheelchair access is no problem although there are only 4 handicapped cruise cabins on board the Star Cruise Virgo that we were not able to book one as they were all fully booked. We got around this problem by upgrading to one of the cruise suites in order to have a more spacious room for mother.

Passengers waiting to board

The boarding area for crew and handicapped passengers

We met at Harbourfront Cruise Center at 1750 hrs. By the time all of us had arrived, it was already after 1800 hrs. As mother is in a wheelchair, she was wheeled in by the cruise staff through a separate entrance. As we were not able to book the handicapped cabin, we decided to upgrade to a junior suite room with balcony as it would be more spacious and thus more convenient for mother and her wheelchair. Junior suites come with large picture windows and are on the higher decks.

We were assigned the Seychelles Suite which comprised a living room, a bedroom as well as the bath and toilet area. With a touch of elegance and luxury, the living room comes equipped with a sofa bed where you can use the sofa during the day and it can be converted into a bed for the night. There is also a 30” plasma flat screen television with a video player for private screening of movies. The bedroom has a king sized bed as well as a smaller television. The bathroom comes with a Jacuzzi where you can soak yourself and enjoy the sea view. Or you could just lie on the deckchair in the balcony and read a book, or suntan yourself on your private balcony.

Sunset image

For dinner, we met at Bella Vista for a Chinese dinner. The Double Boiled Pork Stomach Soup With White Radish was well-flavoured and tasty. The Roasted Crispy Duck was also just nicely marinated and roasted. Overall the food was quite appetizing.