Lily Lee: Celebrity Solstice Day 3

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Celebrity Solstice Day 3

As I had been to Ko Samui before, we had originally planned to just go for a massage and buy some food near the tender pier at Nathon. However, the tender was cancelled due to the adverse weather and the ship was very quick to adjust the program for the day.

We waited at Michael's club at 7am to be escorted to the tender for Ko Samui. Heavy rain though so there was a delay. It rained heavily the previous night too.

The staff brought us latte which is complimentary in Michael's club and we met a lovely couple from Canada.

A bit disappointed that the captain had to cancel the tender to Ko Samui because of the weather. There goes my massage. Originally booked a massage at Chootong health massage, a 5min walk away from the pier. The 3 hr massage is only 900 Baht or US30 per person. https://maps.app.goo.gl/kiDg8WkqWUn6jjhv8

WhatsApp +66 89 474 9075 Chootong massage.

I can see a lot of disappointment as for some it was their first visit to Ko Samui and their excursions had to be cancelled.

You can read about my visit to Ko Samui in 2015 via Sapphire princess: https://mrslilylee.blogspot.com/2015/12/day-8-laem-chabang-and-day-9-ko-samui.html?m=1

We had to order room service as ocean view cafe was so packed and Luminae was already closed for breakfast. Originally planned to have breakfast at Ko Samui.

We went up to sky observation lounge. The view here is awesome. I waited for the mini macrame class at 11am. Decided to bring back to the room and complete it at home as there was such a big crowd. I supposed everyone was trying on the activities which the ship rescheduled. Amazing for them to be able to come up with a new list of activities as the trip to Ko Samui was cancelled.

The spread of food at ocean view cafe was amazing. No wonder it was always so packed! The chicken curry with rice is so flavourful. Had been missing rice cos it's mainly western at the dining room. The food was really good! Best buffet in all my cruises!

The ship was quite fast to come up with a new programme list for the day as the trip to Ko Samui was cancelled. The captain announced that we will leave Koh Samui earlier for Laem Chabang port. We had planned to visit Pattaya rather than Bangkok as it is nearer to the port. The ship will be arriving two hours earlier. Contacted my private tour to make the change to 1 hour earlier. I have contacted our butler, Dominic, to bring us our afternoon tea in-suite at 3.30pm.

Took some pictures at the balcony while waiting for our afternoon tea. Hubby took a nap.

Got a shock on such a spread for afternoon tea. The donuts, eclair, cake were awesome. The ham and tuna sliders were good too and we could not finish the scones.

Photos taken by the photographer the day before were available for download to my phone!

We explored the ship and took some pictures.

Magazines were available in the library.

It was very windy on deck 14 where the lawn club is. The Cabanas were empty as I think it's not worth paying so much to use it.

It is very relaxing on deck 16. Very quiet too.

The view of sunset from deck 16 was amazing.

Beautiful sunset

Performance by Sugar Dees at the grand foyer.

Greatly entertained by dinner at Le Petit. The food was a disappointment though.

First course Tartlet with tomato.

2nd course prawns and cucumber salad which was the best dish.

3rd course braised beef. A bit tough...could not cut through though they changed another knife for me.

4th course dessert strawberry shortcakes napolean.

Performance by the Cardinals at the foyer. Love this song 'How deep is your love?'

Magic show performed by Andrew Lee at the Solstice theatre. It is indeed more crowded at the 9pm show. He interacted well with the audience and the show was more interesting than the one we saw at RC.

Bryony Drake performing John Lennon and McCartney songs at Central. We love the song 'Imagine' performed by Bryony Drake on Celebrity Solstice. She has a very unique vocal.