Monday February 8, The Passengers
Well it was as I feared most of them were asleep after Sunday lunch when I went on at 2pm, rotten scheduling and I’d noticed yesterday that Jock Reid, a former Concorde pilot only managed to attract 29 to his lecture and I only had 47 so it’s not the content it’s the passengers themselves. To explain, I would guess the average age is in the late 70’s early 80’s much older than we last travelled on this ship and I suspect this is a result of the credit crunch which means this is the only age group who can now afford to take a Saga world cruise.
There are very few people under 60 on board and most of the passengers look as if they come to escape the British winter for three months so their principle interests are eating as much as possible three or even four times a day, lying out on the sundecks reading and sleeping and doing the various quizzes on the ship! Sue has noted a similar lack of numbers at the Bridge classes and the Golf lessons. I’ve been going to the gymn and most of the time there are never more than two or three people there.
The only lectures which are well attended are those in the ballroom telling more about the ports we are to visit and giving details of the shore excursions available, though the Captain gave an entertaining one on his experiences at sea as did the Cruise Director who talked on the Mutiny on the Bounty.
It’s certainly different from our time on P&O where I was talking to over two hundred people at a time. Those who did come to hear me seemed to enjoy it and I ran a “Bits & Pieces” competition on Radio 1 with a bottle of champagne for the winner and was somewhat embarrassed when two passengers scored the maximum and after I tried two tie break questions they got those right too so it cost the ship two bottles of bubbly. Proves there are some Radio 1 fans on board.
Today is very wet and tropical, over 90 degrees in old money and we steam along in a heavy swell as there was a cyclone not too far away. Tomorrow Tahiti where the forecast is for more rain....
There are very few people under 60 on board and most of the passengers look as if they come to escape the British winter for three months so their principle interests are eating as much as possible three or even four times a day, lying out on the sundecks reading and sleeping and doing the various quizzes on the ship! Sue has noted a similar lack of numbers at the Bridge classes and the Golf lessons. I’ve been going to the gymn and most of the time there are never more than two or three people there.
The only lectures which are well attended are those in the ballroom telling more about the ports we are to visit and giving details of the shore excursions available, though the Captain gave an entertaining one on his experiences at sea as did the Cruise Director who talked on the Mutiny on the Bounty.
It’s certainly different from our time on P&O where I was talking to over two hundred people at a time. Those who did come to hear me seemed to enjoy it and I ran a “Bits & Pieces” competition on Radio 1 with a bottle of champagne for the winner and was somewhat embarrassed when two passengers scored the maximum and after I tried two tie break questions they got those right too so it cost the ship two bottles of bubbly. Proves there are some Radio 1 fans on board.
Today is very wet and tropical, over 90 degrees in old money and we steam along in a heavy swell as there was a cyclone not too far away. Tomorrow Tahiti where the forecast is for more rain....
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