QE Jubilee Afternoon Tea 5 June

[Castro and Millie]

By 2.45 all tables were taken.

Started serving early, at 2.50.

By 3.00 the queue for a table was stretching outside the room.

First course sandwiches.

Second course savouries.

Third course scones and cream.

Fourth course, cakes.

Plus copious cups of tea.

A truly spectacular event and it was great to see the Queens Room with its buzz back. And numerous quests unable to move afterwards!

Sadly no marmalade sandwiches though.

I have some photos which I’ll endeavour to upload when I can.

[ace2542]

6 hours ago, Castro and Millie said:

By 2.45 all tables were taken.

Started serving early, at 2.50.

By 3.00 the queue for a table was stretching outside the room.

First course sandwiches.

Second course savouries.

Third course scones and cream.

Fourth course, cakes.

Plus copious cups of tea.

A truly spectacular event and it was great to see the Queens Room with its buzz back. And numerous quests unable to move afterwards!

Sadly no marmalade sandwiches though.

I have some photos which I’ll endeavour to upload when I can.

Did they have the swan shaped cakes they used to have.

[Castro and Millie]

Didn’t see any Ace, majority of cakes were decorated with red, white and blue. Tasted great though!

[exlondoner]

Is Arthur still enjoying himself?

[porsena]

We had no idea, when we booked our June 4th cruise to Alaska, that it would begin on the weekend celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Appropriately, the galley laid on a special tea in the Queen’s Room. Racks of sweets and a large ice sculpture of the lion, and unicorn with the Royal coat of arms flanked a large cake decorated as the Union Jack. The tea-time sandwiches were supplemented by savouries and a wide variety of small cakes, sweets and chocolates. With just 939 passenger aboard, the sailing feels uncrowded, but there was a line of people awaiting others to finish so they could get seats for the Jubilee tea.

 

Yesterday’s ports speaker told us that Sitka would be a tender port.   

[Host Hattie]

Thank you for the photos, it looks lovely

[Castro and Millie]

Cheers porsena, it saved me the trouble of struggling to upload my photos!

[Castro and Millie]

Yes he is exlondoner, today we were in Haines so he saw some of his relatives!

[Castro and Millie]

1. Beautiful Haines

[ace2542]

14 hours ago, porsena said:

We had no idea, when we booked our June 4th cruise to Alaska, that it would begin on the weekend celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Appropriately, the galley laid on a special tea in the Queen’s Room. Racks of sweets and a large ice sculpture of the lion, and unicorn with the Royal coat of arms flanked a large cake decorated as the Union Jack. The tea-time sandwiches were supplemented by savouries and a wide variety of small cakes, sweets and chocolates. With just 939 passenger aboard, the sailing feels uncrowded, but there was a line of people awaiting others to finish so they could get seats for the Jubilee tea.

 

Yesterday’s ports speaker told us that Sitka would be a tender port.   

Strange that you had to tender. The NCL Bliss pulled into Sitka. Was there more than 1 ship in port?

[Cruise Wonderland]

On 6/8/2022 at 3:10 PM, ace2542 said:

Strange that you had to tender. The NCL Bliss pulled into Sitka. Was there more than 1 ship in port?

 

I checked the sailing track. QE eventually berthed at pier last Friday.