Dawn Princess - Thursday 28 January, Sea Day 5 (Final Day)

Our last day on the Dawn Princess and (like all our cruises) we don't want it to end. World cruise is really calling me :-)

The weather has been near on perfect and the seas so calm, we could hardly tell we were moving most of the time. Being closer to the front of the ship and higher up than we have ever been (deck level 11) we thought we might have felt more movement. Nope. Calm all the way. The balcony is quite sheltered which meant we could use it most of the time, I think we only had a few times where it was a bit windy but other than that we either had the door open while relaxing on our beds or were sitting out on the balcony - tough life I know!

Once we had worked out where everything was on the ship we found deck 11 to be quite central and easy to get everywhere, although I suspect all cabins would be the same once you worked out where abouts you're situated on the ship and where everything else is.

Deck 11 was two decks below the Horizon Buffet and the stairs we used, closest ones to our cabin, went straight to the buffet. All other ships we've been on the buffet has been at the back of the ship unlike the Dawn Princess which has the buffet at the front - made it very convenient for us :-)

Our cruise was 13 nights and had 7 stops which, I think, has been the most stops of any cruise we've done before. Our cruises have been between 7 and 13 nights. I have to say, the longer the better but any cruise is a good cruise!

Seeing as this was our last day on the Dawn we decided to go to the Pizzeria for lunch (after mum had checked out the buffet first!). The pizza's are yum! I had the Dawn Special - which is seafood based and mum had the pepperoni.


The last night in the restaurant is the Baked Alaska Parade where all of the chefs and waiters parade around the dining room with baked alaska, the main dining room dude thanks everyone, we all sing a song (Waltz Sing Matilda) and then have Baked Alaska for dessert. A great way to end our wonderful cruise!

Baked Alaska - final dinner on the Dawn Princess

NB: for some unknown reason my photos from our last day and morning didn't download onto my computer - thankfully I was able to print them out though!