It's fitting that the day started with overcast skies. Tomorrow, we'd be heading home from the cruise terminal, and dealing with traffic issues triggered by the NYC Marathon. To most, it's a symbol of New York supporting athletics. To people in transit to other places, it's a pain in the *** that can't be avoided.
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The day started with us waking up early to have one last relaxed breakfast in the main dining room. Although the quality of food was as good as usual, the service was sloppy at best. This might have been triggered by too many people trying to eat at Taste or Savor at the same time, or it might have been caused by bad management of these dining areas. I won't bother to take a guess about which scenario is true.
Once done with breakfast, it was off to the photo gallery to select one photo of the two of us that we could frame in each of our apartments. We selected a nice photo, and then went to the duty free liquor store, where I burnt off the rest of my non-refundable cruise credits (along with a few extra dollars) on a bottle of Amaretto. And, finally, it was back to our cabin to finish packing, accommodating our late dinner at Le Bistro (a specialty restaurant).
One of the benefits I have with my Platinum loyalty status is to get luggage tags that give me a priority in leaving the ship on disembarkation day. We went to Guest Services and got bad information from one of the crew manning the area. After a wasted trip to our cabin, we ended up going to Guest Services again and asking for our yellow luggage tags - which we got without anyone checking our status. Now, I know what I have to do on future NCL cruises to get priority disembarkation.
Around 8 pm, we pushed our bags into the hall for delivery to the pier, and then proceeded to the ship's French restaurant for dinner. We ordered wine with our dinner, and never had to show our cruise card for it. Could the staff be using some system to remember that we had the drink package on a prior visit to the restaurant? Or, did they stop giving a damn about checking for drink package cruisers? Given the behavior of other bar crew personnel on this cruise for soda and alcohol orders, I'm not sure of what is going on. RQSr and I started with the Mushroom soup, and I followed that with some more Escargot. RQS had the Dover Sole, while I had the Beef Tenderloin. Both were yummy. And then both of us finished with the Strawberries and Cream over Sponge Cake. This was pleasant, but I'd rather have had a simple Napoleon to finish off the meal.
When we were done with dinner, it was back to the cabin to try and sleep, as tomorrow would be a busy day.
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