Rare The-Inside-Cabin Posted February 27, 2022 #1 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Yeah! I’m doing my Doc Dance! Younger cruisers will say – Hey What? What’s a Doc Dance? Doing a Doc Dance was one of the precruise traditions that fell by the wayside once all your cruise documentation was available online. “Back in the day” the cruise line mailed your boarding passes, luggage tags, excursion information and more in big thick envelopes. After you received your ”Docs” your cruise went from a dream to reality as you were able to scan all the wonderful excursions and other highlights of your upcoming cruise. In the preinternet days, you couldn’t easily find out what excursions were available till you received your Docs! Even then you couldn’t easily book in advance and often you headed down to the theatre for a mass shore excursion booking party on the first day. Sadly, the old Doc Dance has been replaced by the new Negative COVID Dance! These days you must get a COVID test right before sailing and when you get the email or text with the big print – NEGATIVE – well I can’t blame anyone if you jump out of their chair and do a little Happy Dance! But – NOT SO FAST – Since we are heading to Hawaii – we must run the COVID gauntlet one more time at the cruise terminal before we board. If we pop positive, then it’s go back home and start thinking about how you can use all your FCC. I am writing this at 1 PM and we leave for the cruise terminal in 90 minutes. Hoping for another negative test – otherwise Follow along here and on Twitter/Instagram, plus my blog www.theinsidecabin.com 19 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iflyrc5 Posted February 27, 2022 #2 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Looking forward to following your adventure. We have 3 friends on the ZDam with you. We are currently on the NS in the Caribbean. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvertoGold Posted February 27, 2022 #3 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Wonderful! This is such a great cruise, a real get-away-from-it-all one. Best wishes for a fantastic cruise and for doing another much anticipated blog! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvteaching Posted February 27, 2022 #4 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Best wishes for a great cruise! Can't wait to follow along with you. Karen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mtn2Sea Posted February 27, 2022 #5 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Hope you have a fantastic cruise! Looking forward to hearing all about your adventures while on the Zuiderdam. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusieKIslandGirl Posted February 27, 2022 #6 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Have a fantastic cruise! It was one of our favorites-especially since we were able to end the cruise in Seattle. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crystalspin Posted February 27, 2022 #7 Share Posted February 27, 2022 We cancelled back in October 😞 but I will be following your adventures. Vicarious fun! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea42 Posted February 27, 2022 #8 Share Posted February 27, 2022 I hope you have an amazing adventure and fingers are crossed that you are negative once again. I've always enjoyed following your blog and am happy to know I have another one to look forward to. Safe Travels! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57redbird Posted February 28, 2022 #9 Share Posted February 28, 2022 We were waitlisted for this cruise but figured our chances were slim to none so we opted to move it to 2023....now I'm wishing we had taken our chances. Enjoy!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ger_77 Posted February 28, 2022 #10 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Thank you for taking us along with you; I'm one who remembers doing the Document Dance. I used to grab the UPS delivery guy and sashay him around the driveway before letting him run back to his truck. Strangely enough, they never sent the same one twice . . . hmmm. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through your cruise till we get to do ours - eventually. Smooth Sailing! 3 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatdrill Posted February 28, 2022 #11 Share Posted February 28, 2022 San Diego Port webcam...Koningsdam sailing now, Z not yet. https://www.earthcam.com/usa/california/sandiego/harbor/?cam=sandiego 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkacruiser Posted February 28, 2022 #12 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Bon Voyage! Looking forward to your reports! (Have not understood why Avalon is a port of call, however.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare erewhon Posted February 28, 2022 #13 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Thank you for a live thread. Have a wonderful cruise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHIARA62 Posted February 28, 2022 #14 Share Posted February 28, 2022 46 minutes ago, 57redbird said: We were waitlisted for this cruise but figured our chances were slim to none so we opted to move it to 2023....now I'm wishing we had taken our chances. Enjoy!!! See you on board the Koningsdam. We booked this back in June 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianbear Posted February 28, 2022 #15 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Will be following along -hopefully you tested negative! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcase131 Posted February 28, 2022 #16 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Will be following, we are thinking about this cruise for next year. Can I ask why you had to take two tests? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatdrill Posted February 28, 2022 #17 Share Posted February 28, 2022 1 minute ago, mcase131 said: Will be following, we are thinking about this cruise for next year. Can I ask why you had to take two tests? One for HAL, the other (in the cruise terminal) for Hawaii. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcase131 Posted February 28, 2022 #18 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mightycruisequeen Posted February 28, 2022 #19 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Have a great cruise! We were booked for this one, but cancelled before final payment because of all the Covid cruising protocols that were still in place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruising Is Bliss Posted February 28, 2022 #20 Share Posted February 28, 2022 It sounds like a wonderful cruise, looking forward to following along and thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare The-Inside-Cabin Posted February 28, 2022 Author #21 Share Posted February 28, 2022 We are currently anchored in Avalon. Great first day. Caught up with a lot of old friends from previous cruise. Ran into Henk, Hotel GM and Shiv who runs Housekeeping - they will both be on the 23 World cruise. Easy check in - our arrival time was 3:20 so things were really almost wrapped up by then. Longest wait was to wait for COVID results. more later but I wanted to post a quick note and try this video. IMG_9652.MOV 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadianbear Posted February 28, 2022 #22 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Security guard took a great photo of you both! Video worked too. Enjoy! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare The-Inside-Cabin Posted February 28, 2022 Author #23 Share Posted February 28, 2022 I uploaded the video to my YouTube channel - this way you won't have to download. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise NH Posted February 28, 2022 #24 Share Posted February 28, 2022 This is the same ship as the 2023 WC right? I’d love to see pictures of the electrical outlet setup in the rooms. have a great trip, we’ve been to many of those ports…fabulous! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love the beach Posted February 28, 2022 #25 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Bon Voyage! Looking forward to following along.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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