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| Narragansett Bay |
Sailed into Narragansett Bay this morning. Beautiful bay with sailboats dotted all over
the bay. Saw this interesting house
built on a rock....My kind of life. It
seemed to take a bit for the ship to get situated; meanwhile, the NCL was right
behind us. Abundant sunshine and warmer
temps for this early morning.
OMGoodness, what a day.
We waited until later in the morning before going down to get our ticket
to board the tender in order to let the tours get off first. At 10:30 we approached the dining room where
the tickets were handed out. There was
already 500 people in the dining room "waiting in comfort" for their
tickets to be called. We were #'s 1158
and 1159.
We went to the library/internet room to wait. While there, a couple pulled two chairs up
along with a member of the cruise staff.
The man pulled his chair right
in front of my legs leaving me an area of about a foot to get up and out from
my chair. We couldn't help but hear the
story.....she had fallen getting off the tender at the ship after leaving Bar
Harbor and she definitely held the cruise line responsible. "They" took her wheelchair away
when she got on the tender at Bar Harbor and told her they'd would order
another one for her at the ship. She
said it wasn't there and she had to walk off the tender. It had been raining and the carpet was
"bathtub" wet and she slipped and fell hitting her head and hip. She said they should have had a canopy over
it to prevent it from getting so wet.
Keeping in mind that about 3000 others didn't fall and she was walking
around today without a wheelchair, it makes me wonder. Just sayin'. We left at that point.
Finally after an hour of waiting, we got on a tender and got
off at Newport along with scads and scads of others.
We got on a city bus (#67) to take us to the Cliff
Walk. It's a mile and quarter walk
along the Atlantic Seacoast and the backyards to the industrial age icons and
their mansions. Doris Duke had a home
here and is open for visitors. Also
open is the Breakers, the summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Named, I'm sure, because of the sound of the
waves breaking over the rocks from below.
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| The Breakers |
We chose to just walk the Walk. The crowds were too thick for us. One end of the Walk is closed due to hurricane damage. We saw a few of the homes, but the private
home section (in use today) was shielded by high shrubbery and we didn't see
much.
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| Another home along the Cliff Walk |
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| Newport |
After riding the bus to the "getting off" stop and
being packed in like sardines and people talking at the top of their lungs, we
opted to walk back to the harbor. A
lovely walk. This is a very quaint,
historic town. Lots and lots of
restored 1800's homes. You can smell
the money here. I can't
We proceeded to get in another line to get back to
ship. Visited with a couple from Oregon
who, more or less, agreed with us about the disorganization/poor service on the
ship. Their only other cruise to
compare was with RCCL. We compared it
with RCCL and about 4 other cruise lines....same opinion.
Sitting on the balcony watching a sailing race with one-man boats. Beautiful. Sailing around the NCL cruise ship.......and listening to a woman next door talking VERY loud conducting her estate sale business. Geez.....
This will be the last of the complaints.....because I'm getting off in the morning. But I am calling it as I see it. LOL. And the reason we live on 60 acres in the country and our nearest neighbor moos.
Tonight we get our suitcases packed back up and organized
for the trip into NYC. Hope it all goes
well. We are pressed for time and I
have fears of delays. But maybe it will
all go smoothly.
A
I've enjoyed all the pictures and posts. What you call complaining, I call keeping it real. We seem to run with the kind of people you've described more often than we'd like. Always good examples of what not to be like to keep us in line. Can't wait to hear about New York.
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