Discovery Day 5

Day 5 – at sea

They do say - be very careful what you wish for as you may get it!  Our one regret on this short cruise had been no sea days – in the end we had two! This is when we found out some of the shortcomings of Discovery! The library was impressive for a small ship BUT only opened from 9-10 and from 4-5. We had thought that was because we were in port, but it was just the same today. Ok, another query we put to the Cruise Director – Richard Sykes a day or so ago, was - were the ever any events for solo travellers as there hadn’t been any so far. His answer was of course we have them – coffee meets, lunches etc. – but we haven’t any sea days to put them on. Great we thought – we now have a sea day – zilch! The weather was too poor to sit out on deck – in any event there were only white plastic sun beds (too low for me) or folding teak garden-style chairs (hard and no arms) – so no quoits or shuffleboard.

Discovery has an impressive number of pubic venues for her size – but not the matching entertainment staff to have two things going on at the same time.

Anyway – we allowed ourselves a lie in until 8.50am and just made breakfast. I wandered into the library – the first time I had managed to find it open – probably because it was staffed by entertainment officers. So we tried a few of the games – beanbag bowls, Jakkalo etc. Caryll went off to a recital.  While I watched fruit carving on Lido deck. It was a gala evening with a special menu. We were given one free glass of champagne to toast the cruise. There was the traditional Baked Alaska parade – with sparklers - and delicious chocolate truffles on a tray at the exit to the dining room. The show was Joseph, which was excellent, after which we went to bed. Our arrival time at Cobh was confirmed as midnight.