Thursday, 5 June 2025

June 3 – AT SEA, Cruising the Indian Ocean

Weather – 17º, a bit of rain

Steps – 4,323

Humidity – low

We took it very easy today. That isn't all that different for a typical sea day. We slept in, read, ate my in-room DIY breakfast with the DIY coffee and didn’t leave the room until about 1030.

We put a hold on a Christmas cruise a while back and today some space came available, so we went to confirm this with Bea, the onboard cruise consultant.

The hold is just for a ‘guarantee’ cabin on the Christmas cruise, but that is OK with us. Almost 100% of the time, we book the absolute cheapest room available. On Regent, even the most basic room is big and has a balcony – no inside or window only rooms. We aren’t really picky on location. I don’t love rooms under the pool deck – we were in a location like that once and could hear pool chairs moving and didn’t love it. We were also once under a restaurant on a high deck and didn’t love that either due to the restaurant noise. Funnily enough, those rooms tend to be the fancy-schmancy ones – for some reason higher decks where the pool and restaurant are, are considered more desirable room locations – the higher up you go the more motion of the ocean you get…doesn’t seem desirable to me.

This current cruise we are off the back of the ship which we love. We got a good price for this somewhat higher end room due to its location only, but this happens to be over a lounge – the band never plays past 11:15, so we are either still out at that time, or are so tired we pass out, so this over-a-lounge location is no problem for us.

Anyway…the guarantee means we will for sure get on the ship, but don’t have an assigned room yet. It’s a bit risky as far as location goes, but this is all they had.

That was the excitement for the day!

I didn’t even take one photo…my phone needs a break.

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