Woke up around 6.30am to see “land ahoy” as the Eclipse slowly made her way into port in Hilo. We went back to bed for an hour then got up and went out onto the balcony, to take in our immediate surroundings. As the Eclipse is such a large ship (over 122,000 tons) we found…
Got up at 7.30am and went out onto our balcony, where the weather was warm and sultry and the sun was already quite hot. Today would be our last full day at sea before reaching our first port of call tomorrow. As today was Hallowe’en, which is celebrated much more in the USA than it…
Got up at 7.30 this morning and were dismayed to see that the decks were wet, and it wasn’t because the deck-hands had been washing them. ☹ After getting washed and dressed we made our way up to Deck 14 to take the route alongside the pool to the Ocean View café. There was a…
Got up at eight o’clock this morning and went out onto the balcony to see what the weather was like. Once again, although dry, it was cooler than we’d expected and cloudy, but the Pacific Ocean was fairly calm as the Celebrity Eclipse glided through the waves, and we enjoyed the hypnotic shhhhh shhhhh of…
We awoke early this morning; in fact, at 6.00am I went out onto the balcony hoping to watch the sun rise, but we were on the wrong side of the ship! Nevertheless we lay in bed for a while, looking out at the mesmerising sight of the sea passing by, then got up around 6.30am. …
As expected, we kept waking up through the night, but we still did manage to get some quality sleep, so we got up at 6.35am and I made a beeline for the large bathroom and enjoyed a long, hot shower and washed my hair. While I was getting ready, we made the most of the…
