As you saw in an earlier post, the departure for the Panama Canal transit voyage is from NYC....but there were changes in store for us. Normally, Cunard uses a dock in Red Hook, Brooklyn as its departure terminal, so we booked a hotel not far from the Wall Street Ferry slip to ease our getting across to the dock. The ferry from Wall Street is just about the most convenient way to get to the Brooklyn terminal.
In early December, however, we received info that Queen Victoria would now be docking on the Hudson, at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal. That's in Upper Midtown at 55th Street, not too far from Times Square.
Phil scrambled to adjust our plans and we booked a new hotel about fifteen minutes' walk from the Cruise Terminal.
As it stands now (01/13/2023) we are taking Amtrak to NYC, arriving about 11:30 AM on the 19th (a day before departure). We have time for a leisurely lunch in the Metropolitan Lounge at Penn Station's Moynihan Hall, then a twenty-minute walk to the hotel. We plan to drop off our luggage, then run errands, including a wine tasting in Lower Manhattan. Phil discovered a very cool Thai restaurant near the hotel, so we are planning on having dinner there. If the weather is decent, we hope to walk over and take a few night shots of QV at dock.
We have to take a Covid test the day before departure and demonstrate a negative result. It's completely on the honor system now!
This past week has been a flurry of cleaning & tidying-up, meeting the cat sitter, and for me, using up our fresh food in meals. Phil has prepped the cat food dispensers and water fountains, so they will be ready to go.
We've also been doing some research for our cruise port calls and have finalized (we think!) what our plans are for each destination.... but more on that later.
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