Asian cruise feb-mar 2010 (nx power-lite)

Costa Allegra Asia Cruise 2010 - Singapore – Vietnam –

Hong Kong- Philippines - Malaysia – Brunei - Singapore

The Itinerary

Day Details Day Details

1 Brisbane to Singapore 2 Singapore

3 At Sea 4 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

5 At Sea 6 Da Nang

7 At Sea 8 Hong Kong

9 At Sea 10 Manila

11 At Sea 12 Kota Kinabalu

13 Bandar Seri Begawan 14 At Sea

15 Singapore 16 Arrive Brisbane

Day 1 – Saturday - Brisbane to Singapore

Singapore Airlines, A330-300, aircraft departed

Brisbane at 0930hrs after a stress-free check-in.

7.5hrs flying time. Wonderful flight, superb

service and delicious food. Changi airport

is unbelievable in scale & design.

Embarkation at Singapore Cruise Centre

was very well organised; quite a bit of

walking due to the size of the terminal

Day 2 – Sunday – SingaporeChinese New Year Celebrations

Early breakfast &

a cab ride around

town; visited the

Chinatown area &

VivoCity shopping

centre; return to

ship

The first show in the Folies Bergeres

Theatre was Vito Valente a tenor who badly

needed a haircut, which just about summed

up his performance.

Day 3 – Monday - At Sea

Day 4 - Tuesday– Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam

Docked 7.30am met by girls in national dress

who released 100’s of balloons. Shuttle to city

centre visited markets and museum by pedal

cab; real contrast between old & new areas.

French influence slowly being erased. A very

vibrant, noisy and, except for CBD, a typically

Asian city.

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) – Formerly Saigon

Vietnam

Day 5 – Wednesday – At Sea (the South China Sea)

Restful day at sea; the South

China Sea was calm, the

weather sunny and warm.

Relaxed by the pool, all very

decadent!

Entertainment on board very

professional and varied.

Music in all the lounges and

on the pool deck in addition

to main theatre.

Day 6 – Thursday - Da Nang, Vietnam

Visited ancient town of Hoi An and absorbed the cultural variety of the region and spent. Pedal cab rides again. Well worth the visit! Da Nang is most impressive city with many multi-million international resorts under construction.

Like Saigon the traffic is breathtaking – chaotic by Australian standards!

Hoi An,

Vietnam

Day 7 – Friday - At Sea

Day 8 – Saturday – Hong Kong, China

Amazing

shopping

paradise, the

scale of the

place

overwhelms

the senses.

Clean, modern

and awash with

double deck

buses.

The light

display

throughout

the city as the

ship left port

at night had

to be seen to

be believed;

almost every

building was

alive with

lights of every

colour and

moving

patterns.

Victoria

Peak was

covered in

fog all day.

Missed the

best view

of HK.

Day 9 – Sunday – At Sea

Fellow travellers from

USA, England, Wales,

Canada turned the various

meal times into

entertaining events.

Large number of German,

Swiss and Italian

passengerswho generally

kept to themselves and

did not tend to mix with

the English speakers. All activities on-board were conducted in

Italian, French, German, English & Spanish

Day 10 – Monday – Manila, Philippines

After a most colourful

wharf-side welcome from

dancers & drummers in

national dress we took a

shuttle bus to Robinson

Mall which even dwarfed

those of Singapore. Very

westernised. Prices best

yet! Didn’t spend too much.

Cars & ‘Jeepneys’ replaced the

bicycles of Vietnam but the

traffic was equally terrifying.

(Victory to the bravest).

Day 11 – Tuesday – At Sea Again!

Day 12 – Wednesday – Kota Kinabalu,

Borneo MalaysiaTook the City

sights tour which

included the city

centre, the Sabah

Foundation

Building & City

Mosque then a

visit to Toh Poh

Tze Temple,

Heritage Village &

Sabah Museum.

Reminded us of

Penang in many

ways.

Kota Kinabalu,

Sabah,Malaysia

Day 13 – Thursday

– Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

Best destination of the cruise! The city is beautiful, clean

and a feast of experiences. The sultans have built palaces,

mosques and public buildings which reflect their enormous

oil produced wealth.

The population of 400,000 own 1.2 million cars with fuel

below $A0.50 a litre.

Free education, health services & subsidised housing.

Kampung Ayer – Water Village

Kampung Ayer – Water Village

Amazing water village houses over

13,000 people in the heart of the

city with schools, mosque, police, all

utilities & water taxi service.

Day 14 – Friday

Our Last Day At Sea

Leisurely breakfast in the

Yacht Club followed by a stroll

around the deck. Much cooler

day today about 25°C.

‘Last supper’ with our new

friends at Table 52.

Table 52 – 1st Sitting

Montmartre Restaurant

Our new friends from Table 52.

Left: The Girls’ , Hunter Valley NSW

Right: Gary & Sue, Mandurah WA

Missing: Margaret, Bundaberg QLD

Thanks for your great company!

After a final breakfast in

the Montmartre

Restaurant we

disembarked with the

minimum of delay

through the highly

regimented Singapore

Customs & Immigration

officials.

A late model, fully air-

conditioned coach

awaited us for a day of

touring through 36°C &

90℅ humidity

Day 15 – Back in

Singapore!

Heritage of Singapore tour took us to Little

India with shopping time & lunch. Then on to, Arab Street, Kampong Glam & sights galore

& more shopping before we arrived back

at Changi.

Singapore

a city of

contrasts

Day 16 – Back Home

Return Flight departed

Singapore at 9.10pm – a

long day!

7.30 am local - Bron & the

boys met us at Brisbane

where we all had breakfast

and talked non-stop.

The trip exceeded our

expectations in every way!