Antarctica with Apprehension

[love_the_life]

You can go the other way to SCL with EK or QR…

Indeed, but the cost….

It wasn’t the cost that FM was concerned about. Her SIL didn’t want to take much time off work so QF was more direct and quicker.

 

[Flying mermaid]

In Santiago now. Just had a quick 2 hours sleep, then going to meet Ms FM and SIL in the club lounge for a drink. We need to have the cases outside the room in another 4 hours and ready to depart at 3am. Really should have had an extra night here, but SIL was the problem. My old bones are started to feel exhausted!

Had a really excellent crew and the food was good but no sleep at all on the Mk1 beds.

The airport was pretty crowded on arrival, took quite awhile to do reciprocity fee and immigration. Silversea have been immaculate - heaps of people at the airport, quickly in a nice new mini-bus and to the hotel.

We stay at the Sheraton and they have a desk here with all the instructions. Nice big room on the 19th floor with club access. Quite impressed with the ground service here.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Some pictures of dinner- lovely duck salad to start. Mr Fm had the soup and we both had the barramundi. Then ice cream and cheese

 

[Flying mermaid]

Mr FM had the scrambled eggs which weren’t very nice - weird taste. I had the healthy poached eggs with Quinoa and Kale . Delicious

 

[Flying mermaid]

I am still taking photos so don’t expect quality. Our room

 

[Flying mermaid]

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[Flying mermaid]

Lovely food in the club lounge, with great friendly service - off to sleep again

 

[Pushka]

Your photos are great and it means we are travelling with you in cyberspace. Keep em up!

 

[Flying mermaid]

You can go the other way to SCL with EK or QR...

going to New York with Qatar in May - currently Qsuites on all 4 legs. Even if we get a sub it won’t be as bad as Mk1 seats. That plane really needs to be put out of its misery.

 

[tgh]

Aaahhh scl .. ordinary one day and ordinary the next.. at least it's safe enough

I was right ….the drake will be a lake….. booorrinng … enjoy

 

[Flying mermaid]

Aaahhh scl .. ordinary one day and ordinary the next.. at least it's safe enough

I was right ….the drake will be a lake….. booorrinng … enjoy

Hooray

 

[Flying mermaid]

Luggage had vanished from outside our room so hopefully all is well.

Bizarre being with all these people at 2:30 am. Lots of food for brekky before going to the airport

 

[love_the_life]

View attachment 149360 View attachment 149358 View attachment 149359 View attachment 149361 Luggage had vanished from outside our room so hopefully all is well.

Bizarre being with all these people at 2:30 am. Lots of food for brekky before going to the airport

They don't usually feed you much on the flight to Ushuaia if our experience is anything to go by - one chocolate coated biscuit/cake after about 2 hours in the air. And coffee with powdered whitener, so I had a coke.

 

[Milboo]

Do you still have to hike up escalators with your bags to check in there? We stayed in the San Cristobel Tower, but I see they have now combined both under SPG - but your room looks the ones we had.

We had an outstanding (and huge!) meal in the onsite restaurant too.

But your view is very familiar!

 

[Drakecula]

This Drake also hopes the Drake is a lake. That's what I would want, if I was sailing. (Though probably still wouldn't help me :/ )

 

[Flying mermaid]

They don't usually feed you much on the flight to Ushuaia if our experience is anything to go by - one chocolate coated biscuit/cake after about 2 hours in the air. And coffee with powdered whitener, so I had a coke.

The food was actually really nice. It was a cheese and ham pastry thing. Rather than bread a flaky pastry almost like a croissant. Nice fruit too. I had tea but they gave me a powdered whitener, so I drank it black . Possibly because it was a charter flight Silversea organised better food?

The flight was fine for us. Although Ms FM and husband were in row 8 and we were in 27, at least the pairs were together. Quite a few couples were split all over.

We were taken to a restaurant for an OK lunch. Then one bus at a time went to the ship and 10 people were allowed off, so registration was incredibly quick and we were rapidly in our room wth luggage.

A bucket with a bottle of champagne was on ice - it was Heidsiek Monopole blue top - I’ve asked for Pommery in the fridge and there was a bottle there when we came back from dinner.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Do you still have to hike up escalators with your bags to check in there? We stayed in the San Cristobel Tower, but I see they have now combined both under SPG - but your room looks the ones we had.

We had an outstanding (and huge!) meal in the onsite restaurant too.

But your view is very familiar!

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we were really tired when we arrived, but I don’t remember an escalator. You just walk into the lobby from the street level. We were in the San Cristobel tower, so maybe it has been refurbed?

 

[Flying mermaid]

Strawberry Daiquir
Empanada
Lots of various meat
+salads and a Creme caramel to finish

Then we went for a walk, but quickly retreated to the bus as the rain turned icy

 

[Flying mermaid]

at 5 we had a safety drill and then at 6 an introduction to the heads of departments and expedition leaders

 

[Flying mermaid]

At this point we were all fading,so went to the bar for coffee and listened to a singer/guitarist while we sailed down the Beagle channel.

Son in law went to bed, we had a light meal and then bed as well. Food was terrific but no photos as I was barely functioning at this point. We had a table for 3 and Ms FM and I shared a red curry broth and then king scallops.