Heading towards Southampton

Our last day on the cruise started the same as all our other days - with breakfast at the specialty restaurant that serve breakfast exclusively to suite passengers. Thanks to our free upgrade, this includes us. Today we decided to take a picture of the menu.

It's the same menu every day, but I don't think Katherine and I have had the same breakfast twice.

You probably can't read that, so let me elaborate. As soon as we arrive, our waiter brings strong English tea for Katherine and a cappuccino for me, and only then do we order. Here is the menu enlarged.

This is the reason that on several cruise days we haven't been the least bit hungry for lunch, and have just waited for dinner. (Though yes, I do admit there was that one day when we thought we were hungry enough mid-afternoon to order high tea in the cabin. Big mistake!)

The free upgrade that we got the most $$ value from was the complimentary Internet, which is usually very expensive on a ship.  Free laundry was also great, and we'll be heading to Scotland tomorrow with clean clothes in our bags, no thanks to any effort on our part. They put the actual cost of doing our laundry on our bills before zeroing it out again. This perk has been worth about $65 each, and has saved us so much time and hassle coping with the ship's laundromat that I may decide it's worth paying for if when I cruise again.

I don't suppose they treat someone to such a great upgrade twice in a row, and so it is going to be harder cruising again without the "suite amenities" now that I know what they are!

We are pretty much all packed up now and have to put our bags outside the door by 10pm for collection and offloading in Southampton in the morning. We have a good disembarkation time - 9am - especially considering that we have to put the clocks back an hour to English time tonight. So we'll get an extra hour's sleep.

This time tomorrow night we should be at our hotel in Edinburgh, all being well. I hope we have the connectivity promised by the hotel.