Very soon live from the Star on the way to north cape

[GUEST080219]

Good Morning and welcome to alesund.

Some pictures from our arrival

 

[GUEST080219]

And some more

 

Now some breakfast with a view

[dexddd]

Great review! Thank you for taking the time to do it as the cruise goes on. I am doing the Baltic Capitals cruise next month, and it's great to see the Star. Could you take pics of your inside cabin? I am also booked on an inside (traveling solo) and the pics on NCL are not very informative.

 

Great photos btw! Cheers!

 

What floor are you on? It looks like the OP is in one of the newer insides on 12 so if you aren't on 12 your inside room will have a different decor.

[QuattroRomeo]

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us! It is the next best thing to being there-although I do wish I could bite into that lovely souffle you posted a picture of....! Look forward to your comments on the ports as they come!

[Planmaam]

Thank you, Michael, for this trip tour. It's been 40 years (!) since I was above the Article Circle in Norway myself! This is one cruise my DH says he would love to do, he's not as much as a cruise enthusiast as I am.

 

Love seeing the changes to the Star. The Star Bar was our favorite place for a drink; looks about the same from the pictures you posted.

 

Where was the M & G? I didn't recognize the area.

[GUEST080219]

As we are heading towards geiranger and I am waiting for my dinner some news for you.

The good news is we had absolutely wonderful sunny weather in alesund until the later afternoon when it started to rain. The bad news is that after roughly sorting them I have 163 pictures from this beautiful town but as the internet connection is so spotty at the moment there is no chance to upload them to Flickr for you to enjoy.

Anyway this is the freestyle daily for today

[GUEST080219]

Love seeing the changes to the Star. The Star Bar was our favorite place for a drink; looks about the same from the pictures you posted.

 

 

 

Where was the M & G? I didn't recognize the area.

 

 

The best about the sugarcane bar are the drinks.m and of course the staff. There are people working behind the bar that can pour you drinks and there are bartenders. Here you find the second one. Always a pleasure to have one or two pre dinner mojitos here.

 

M&G was at la cucina

[GUEST080219]

Dinner today at Aqua again. I think I slightly prefer it here.

Beef and noodle soup was okay

Lasagne not so much

Chocolate eclair, well chocolate what can you not love about it

 

The evenings start to follow a usual routine. Pre dinner drinks at sugarcane, dinner, post dinner drink at gatsby, casino, show, spinnaker, casino, ...

[herdingdogmom]

We will be doing the 12 day British Isles cruise in September and we have a door sign we would like to use on our cabin door. If you have the time could I ask you to check the cabin doors on deck 12 to see if you think a magnet or two will adhere the sign to the door. I have been told that the doors have louvers, not flat and that this may not work.

 

I looked into this last month for your fellow roll call poster DebbieCruises. The cabin doors on deck 12 are flat. Both magnets I tried adhered to the door just fine.

The larger, heavier magnet was better than the smaller, lighter one as you would expect. Here is my post:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2191255&page=3&highlight=door+magnet+star

Edited June 14, 2015 by herdingdogmom

[GUEST080219]

Some pictures of our r position and the view

 

If you ever have the opportunity to come do Norway, do it!

[jvsnana]

Beautiful!!!!!

By the way, what are you using to see the ships position?

Edited June 14, 2015 by jvsnana

[GUEST080219]

Beautiful!!!!!

By the way, what are you using to see the ships position?

 

 

It is an iPhone app named Marinetraffic

[GUEST080219]

I decided to bore you with some more crappy iPhone pictures

[Josu01]

What floor are you on? It looks like the OP is in one of the newer insides on 12 so if you aren't on 12 your inside room will have a different decor.

 

I'm on floor 10. I didn't know about the differences in decor in inside rooms. Well, even if the decor is different, I hope the pics will still give me an idea of what to expect in a Star inside :)

[Lanzador]

Can you post a pic of the daily page that shows the opening hours of the facilities (gym, spa, restaurants, etc.)?

 

Also, how fast is the internet?

 

Thanks

[GUEST080219]

Can you post a pic of the daily page that shows the opening hours of the facilities (gym, spa, restaurants, etc.)?

 

 

 

Also, how fast is the internet?

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

This one?

It was a sea day.

 

I need to look a bit deeper into the Internet issue. Uploading via tapatalk is fast, as well as surfing or email. Sometimes the login doesn't work though.

[GUEST080219]

Some more pictures. This is 10 minutes past midnight local time.

 

Either thousand people are enjoying the scenery on their balconies or they are doing something wrong. From 11:30pm on the public areas are empty. Now at O'sheehans with only one other table occupied.

Spinnaker lounge is apart from crew members empty.

[GUEST080219]

The pictures I couldn't include in the last posm

 

Guess it is time to head to bed as well as my alarm clock is set for in 4 hours to see our arrival in Hellesylt

[Sherrica]

Thank you so much for your posts and pictures. Do you know if there is a crepe station at the buffet?

[cadien]

With the tapatalk app, can you upload your photos directly into posts or do you still have to go through something like Flickr or Photobucket first?

[Lanzador]

This one?

It was a sea day.

 

I need to look a bit deeper into the Internet issue. Uploading via tapatalk is fast, as well as surfing or email. Sometimes the login doesn't work though.

 

Perfect, and thanks.

 

I'm still try to decide whether the internet service is worth the cost.

[ExpatBride]

Thank you so much for your posts and pictures. Do you know if there is a crepe station at the buffet?

 

There is in the evening until 9:00, I was a frequent customer last week.

[GUEST080219]

Perfect, and thanks.

 

 

 

I'm still try to decide whether the internet service is worth the cost.

 

 

To be honest I am not sure. Most useful is it to have accurate hourly weather forecast before going shore. Today for geiranger internet is down the whole time. That should be expected, though I am not sure why.

That is why I could not update so far. Here in geiranger we do have free wifi although not very fast.

[GUEST080219]

With the tapatalk app, can you upload your photos directly into posts or do you still have to go through something like Flickr or Photobucket first?

 

 

Yea it is then uploaded from the app to a tapatalk server

[elizamar]

I wonder what you're having for dinner right now [emoji4]