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Cruise Food - Premier Service

Continental Breakfast As part of the Junior Suite Cabin with Balcony and Suite Service 'package' you get 'Premier Service' Don't get too excited, as this is a little 'lack lustre'. One of these 'perks' is Continental Breakfast in Bed for ONE day of the week,…

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Adriatic Affair - Cruise Plots

As best as we could capture at the time... We logged the ships progression using a GPS Data logger, which shows the course we took across the 7 day cruise. The Day at Sea (orange line) plot had to be broken into 3 segments, as…

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A Cold War in Montenegro

Cruising out of Kotor Bay on the evening of the 25th August, 2023 we were treated to some great landscapes along the coast. Almost out of the bay, we saw something that looked very odd, like a canal tunnel heading perpendicular to the coast line…

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Day 8 Review - Lunch at GkA

As we were doing two cruises 'back-to-back' we had a full day in Dubrovnik on 'change over day' This made up for the late check on our first day of the Adriatic Affair cruise. We last visited Dubrovnik in June 2007, and at that time…

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