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First day, after lunch. We were quite full from lunch. It was time to take a walk to explore more of the ship. We walked around a bit, but I didn't take many photos. Maybe I was too full. But I guess we were just happy to be on board and knowing that there will be more time later, let me...

Thanks. Yes, I was very impressed that I could get a newspaper from Singapore! Indeed, they print the newspaper on board.

We had a very good time on the cruise ship, but that is also because we stayed in the Yacht Club, which is MSC's premium product. More of the review coming up!

Lunch Buffet on embarkation day Just one floor below the La Palmaraie restaurant, was the Inca/Maya buffet area on Deck 14. After the lunch, I walked down to the buffet to check out for ourselves what was offered for lunch. This was the first time we have stepped into this restaurant...

Lunch - First time in La Palmeraie It was time for lunch. The restaurant for YC guests was called La Palmeraie, located on Deck 15, at the aft of the ship. Now, this is definitely one bug bear for YC, which isn't going to change. All the YC facilities are located at the front of the ship...

MSC Preziosa Royal Suite 16008 Anyway, it was time to head over to our cabin, suite 16008. They called this the Royal Suite. I made a number of videos of the suite, but here is just two. They should show you what the suite is like. The first video was made on the first day, I think the...

Boarding The Yacht Club experience starts from the time you drop off your luggage. I made this video on the experience, right from dropping off the luggage, to the butler bring us to the check-in suite, to the check-in, to another butler leading us on board, to the YC concierge, and to yet...

Now, after that very long preamble, it was time to board the MSC Preziosa! Come to think of it, we spent 3 nights of travelling and hotel stays before we could get to the ship. First night, red-eye flight on SQ306 to London. Second night, London King's Cross Premier Inn. Third night, Holiday...

Genoa By the time we landed in Genoa, it was dark. It wasn't that late, as I recall, about 5pm thereabouts. Genoa was one hour ahead of London, but this being winter, the sun sets earlier. Immigration clearance and luggage retrieval was smooth. Genoa airport was very small. We looked for...

Ryanair Flight Now, time for the Ryanair flight proper. I made a video. Notably, passengers clap at successful landing of Ryanair Flight FR 972 in Genoa. See 6:43 of this video. The flight was very full today. We joined the queue late so we were amongst the later passengers to board. At...

Lunch at Giraffe Family restaurant After looking at various options, including Itsu and Wetherspoon's pub, we decided on Giraffe. It was a family friendly chain and had kid friendly sets like burgers and pasta, which were very safe options for the kids. The adult menu didn't look too bad...

Travelling to Stansted It was time to pack our bags (not that we unpacked much) and make our way from King's Cross to Tottenham Hale. Again, this was very easy as both stations were on the Piccadilly line. Couldn't resist sharing this pic with you of my kids (took out their faces) They are...

By 5am, we were all wide awake and ready to go out to do some walking, which we did. This is a video I made of King's Cross station, 5:08am in the morning. A nice picture of the St Pancras station, early morning. Very quiet that morning and we were walking around. Temperature was about 10...

Second morning, due to the jet lag, we all work up very early, as we had expected. At this time of the year, London is 8 hours behind Singapore. So our body clocks are 8 hours ahead of London time. Therefore, even when we wake up at 4am, it is already noon in Singapore. Sometimes, I wake up...

PHOENIX PALACE Soon it was time for lunch. The plan was to head to a Chinese restaurant called Phoenix Palace, which was very near Baker Street Tube station. The website of this restaurant - Welcome to Phoenix Palace Chinese Restaurant | 5 Glentworth Street, London NW1 5PG This restaurant has...

Thereafter, we took the Tube into London. Our kids travel free on the Tube, with us paying adults. Both of us have Oyster cards, with sufficient value from previous trips. That helped because the line to buy the Oyster cards or top up the card was very long! It was just a short walk to the...

For our December 2015 family vacation, family vacation for December 2015 and back home. This year, we tried something different. As a family, we like to cruise, but we have yet to try the cruise line called MSC and neither have we been to Genoa. We would sail with the cruise ship called the MSC...

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year! Happy New Year! This is the chinese year of the Monkey. The tradition before the Lunar New Year is to have reunion dinners. I had two, one for each side of the family. Both times we do the 'Lou Hei' or prosperity toss, followed by a delicious...

This being Chinese Lunar New Year season, plenty of fun stuff to watch, even at shopping malls! Chanced upon this chinese martial arts demonstration at a local mall. Part 1 - including 10 year old Tai Ji Quan boy Part 2- double sword and single sword Part 3 - World Champion Ho Lin Ying...

V Log 18 Jan 2016. V Log 5 Feb 2016 - Lunar New Year is around the corner and I draw cash from the ATM for ang pows!