FUN:travel – Glacier Alley – Seabourn Cruise – Day 8
February 14, 2013 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on FUN:travel – Glacier Alley – Seabourn Cruise – Day 8
The ABC’s of Chile
A = Awesome
B = Bummer
C = Celebration
Day 12 – Sunday, February 10 – Sea Day – Cruise Day 8 – Scenic Beagle Channel & Glacier Alley – sunshine w/clouds – balmy low 60’s
- A – 7:30 to 9:00 cruising Glacier Alley
- B – 9:00 wake up & missed lots of glaciers
- A – Chris got up @ 6:30 & took lots of pictures
- 10:00 – fresh fruit
- A – 10:30 to 12:00 – cruising Garibaldi Fjord & Glacier
- A – ship gets “up close & personal” to Garibaldi Glacier
- A – there is a small sail boat just ahead of us
- A – captain does 360 and heads back out to the Beagle Channel
- A – 1:00 – lunch splurge hamburger & fries
- A – 4:00 spa for sauna
- C – 4:30 massage w/Gerald
- B – rain late afternoon
- C –7:15 – happy hour Deck 10
- B – 8:00 dinner – Paella – doesn’t look or taste like anything I ate in Spain
- C – 9:00 – run into Susan & John, head down to the Club for after dinner drinks & great conversation along w/good music
Garibaldi Glacier
FF – (FUN-fact) – 80% of South America’s glaciers lie in Chile’s Glacier Alley.
Not so FF – There has been an outbreak of GIS which causes intestinal problems for 24 to 48 hours. It is caused from not washing your hands after going to the bathroom. All staff members are now serving everything with gloves on and passengers are not allowed to touch any serving items. We are on sanitizing “high alert.”
FUN-travel:Chile
March 24, 2009 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on FUN-travel:Chile
Are First Impressions Really Lasting Impressions?
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Good news – Off to Santiago. Get earlier flight for $40 change fee per person
- Bad news – get hit with $262 Reciprocity Fee in Chile
- Good News – Marriott hotel, 2 room corner suite & executive lounge free. (Mr. C’s payback for all that Pasadena travel)
Day 6 – Monday, February 2, 2009 – hazy, warm
- Good News – Executive lounge on 23rd floor, panoramic views of snow capped Andes mountains and Santiago
- Bad News – very smoggy
- Good News – book half day private city tour thru hotel, includes funicular ride to top of hill
- Bad News – guide irritating, incompetent, & inept in English
- Bad News – on top of that, not much to see & still very irritated about Reciprocity Fee
- Good News- get dropped in downtown
- Bad News – thieves everywhere!
- Bad News – get typical lunch of fish, no mas bueno! Can’t eat, spit out, should have had the Cevice
- Good News – try again for typical Chilean fish dinner, very nice!
Day Rating – 4
Day 7 – Tuesday, February 3, 2009 – hazy, warm
- Good News – 9:45 am wine tour, 2 vineyards. Aquitania – boutique & Concho Y Toro – massive
- Good News – Lunch, typical Chilean tourist restaurant in country
Day Rating – 7 (Must be the wine but still pissed about the Reciprocity Fee)
Day 8 – Wednesday, February 4, 2009
- Good News – leaving Chile, going to Buenos Aires!
- Bad News – flight doesn’t leave til 8 pm.
- Good News – take walk to Plaza Los Dominicos, Chilean Arts & Crafts market
- Good News – go to airport
- Bad News – had 2 itineraries and missed flight
- Good News – get on next flight no charge
- Bad News – get charged $40 for overweight bags
- Good News – get the hell out of Chile!
First Impression is the Lasting Impression
Santiago – 4 (still pissed about the Reciprocity Fee & wished they’d gone to Mendoza)
- Concho Y Toro Diablo