The timing’s kind of cool. Under the bridge and pass the statue late morning instead of 6am. Also harkens back to the day when when ships had to spend time in port to load coal.
Love,love Britannia DR on QM2. Hope io be back on board later this year. Love the winter crossings! Because the ship follows the Gulf Stream and the air temp generally is about the same as the average water temperature on my January EB was around 60 f.
Funny story. I did. a b2b on Explorer last March. On turnaround day I went to old SJ. Back at the ship i went through the usual to board stuff and going up the escalator I realized it was going the opposite direction and I was about to board the Epic. Someone (me?) wasn’t paying attention! No problem at the Explorer dock. BTW the wine store at the dock seemed quite expensive to me.