After a great night's sleep we were up at 7:00 this morning. This is a great hotel. Rooms are very quiet but smaller as the hotel is an old but very well maintained one. The hotel staff is maybe friendliest I have ever seen, and believe me, I have seen many hotels during my airline career. After I got ready I went down and got coffee and brought it up to the room. Rebecca expects that!
It was 60 degrees this morning but suppose to be another warm day here in San Francisco. Sun is shinning brightly and we can see forever from our 9th floor room. I have our luggage ready now for the bell hops to come get them later this morning. They will put them on the buses that take the Regent passengers to the ship at noon.
Breakfast is pretty expensive at Mark Hopkins. I am glad that Regent will be paying it, not me.
As I mentioned yesterday, Regent was sending 3 buses to pick up the hotel folks starting at noon. We let them take our 3 large bags but we took a taxi to the ship at 11:30.
When we arrived there were only a few guests already there. We went right through security but had to wait until about noon before they started checking guests in. We were the second couple to walk aboard the ship. We were advised that the suites would not be ready until around 2 pm so we went up to the La Veranda (buffet) for some lunch. Right away we started seeing crew member friends from previous cruises. It is so good to see these wonderful people again. During lunch Goran, our good friend who is the Food & Beverage Director, came by to give us big hugs. Really great to see him again. He had made us reservations at Prime 7, the steakhouse, for this evening. Later on he took us down to Compass Rose, main dining room. There we met the Executive Chef who is from Germany. We also visited with Alin who is the manager at Prime 7. He is an old friend also. The head sommelier, Arthur, another old friend, stopped by to tell us he had the two cases of St Francis chardonnay that we ordered special.
We were allowed in our suite at 2:30. Our luggage showed up shortly thereafter and we have everything unpacked now. Our stewardess, Rosemary, and our butler, Surish, came by to introduce themselves and make sure we had everything we needed. All the butlers on Regent are from India and do a fabulous job.
Ok, we are sailing now and the ocean is not being very nice. We had a great dinner in Prime 7 so now hitting the hay. Internet not cooperating so will try again tomorrow.
It was 60 degrees this morning but suppose to be another warm day here in San Francisco. Sun is shinning brightly and we can see forever from our 9th floor room. I have our luggage ready now for the bell hops to come get them later this morning. They will put them on the buses that take the Regent passengers to the ship at noon.
As I mentioned yesterday, Regent was sending 3 buses to pick up the hotel folks starting at noon. We let them take our 3 large bags but we took a taxi to the ship at 11:30.
We were allowed in our suite at 2:30. Our luggage showed up shortly thereafter and we have everything unpacked now. Our stewardess, Rosemary, and our butler, Surish, came by to introduce themselves and make sure we had everything we needed. All the butlers on Regent are from India and do a fabulous job.
