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On 12/15/2023 at 1:44 PM, mahdnc said:
After coming home from our Xpedition Galapagos sailing a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I are heading out again to do another cruise, this time to Asia over Christmas and New Year's. It's been a bit of an unusual coincidence for us as we typically take only one cruise a year. However this Asia trip was originally booked in Dec 2019 (for a Dec 2020 sailing)--some 4 years ago. But Covid and the slow world recovery kept pushing this cruise back 3 years in a row when it finally slid into a spot right after our Thanksgiving Galapagos cruise. So we shrugged our shoulders and decided to take both cruises. That was our form of post-Covid revenge travel.
Here is our current trip plan (link)
When we originally booked this sailing for Dec 2020, it was a 14 night cruise aboard Millennium. There were overnights at Singapore and Hong Kong which are now missing on our current 12 night sailing. We had planned on staying pre and post cruise at Singapore and Hong Kong. So when the overnights got dropped with our current sailing, I decided to book five nights pre-cruise in Singapore and five nights post-cruise in Hong Kong to make up for it. It probably works out better that way. So this trip will have 3 phases: Singapore (5 nights) + cruise (12 nights) + Hong Kong (5 nights)
Originally when we booked this cruise, our two adult children were set to go with us--it would have been our 15th Celebrity cruise as a family. But now 3 years later a lot has changed--they are unable to go with us for a variety of personal and work reasons. So that is another casualty for us from the Covid cancellation/delays.
Today we plan on flying out of Chicago (ORD) and we will fly to San Francisco (SFO) for a 7 hour layover designed to allow us to have dinner in San Francisco with our son and his wonderful girl friend at Mister Jiu's restaurant. I suggested that he pick the place to eat since he knows San Francisco so well after living there for over five years. I told him that since we are headed to Asia for almost a month, I preferred we not eat Chinese food during our stop in San Francisco. Well Mister Jiu's is a Chinese restaurant--a Michelin star one--but still a Chinese restaurant. So that is where we are going today. It will be nice to see our son and his girl friend.
Our flight then leaves SFO at about 11pm local time. We will then have the pleasure of flying on United Airline's flagship route designated as Flight #1 which makes it very easy to remember. But the nonstop flight from SFO to SIN will be about 17.5 hours long. Our car comes to pick us up at 9am, so here we go.....
David and Marcia
HI David I am on the same cruise this Nov 2024. I have read your itinerary and hoping you can give me recommendations now you have done the tours. What would you recommend ? Was the tour of HCMC with Juan good? What about the other tours? Thanks so much Sharon
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Hi David. Just sent you an email. Thanks for all you invaluable info.