• PART 1
  Day 1 the Hotel
• PART 2
  Day 2 Whales
  Day 3 Beach
  Day 4 Puerto Plata
• PART 3
  Day 5 La Romana
  The Ship
  The Cabin
  Info Desk
  Tax Free Shop
  English Hostess
  The Lifts
  Sauna
  Ships Hospital
  Dining
  Drink Packages
  Evening Shows
  Excursions
• PART 4
  Day 6 Catalina
  Day 7 Tortola
  Day 8 Antigua
• PART 5
  Day 9 Barbados
  Day 10 Guadeloupe
• PART 6
  Day 11 Sint Maarten
  Day 12 Porto Plata
  Day 13 Playa Dorada
  Day 14 Flight home

Sauna

Of course if a passenger comes from Finland to a boat that is made in Finland the sauna is a must. The sauna interior was unfortunately also designed in Italy. The sitting height was too low. The sitting height is measured from the stones of the stove. Your feet should  be on the stone level when you are sitting. The seat should be so high as you are sitting with straight back your fingers should touch the roof if you put your hand on top of your head. The sitting board was also too narrow.

The lighting should have been dim, but the whole side wall was a milk-glass window to the deck day light. The only thing that was correct was the air ventilation with incoming air under the door and out going air from the roof hole. There was no thermometer on the wall only an hourglass for some mysterious reason?

On the locker room wall there was an instruction written, to keep your swimming suit on at all  times on the premises – also in the sauna. Keeping your swimming suit on in the sauna is considered unhealthy and it is therefore forbidden in every public sauna in Finland.
On the corridor opposite the sauna door there was a row of nameless doors that led to private shower rooms that you could lock from inside. The shower was again nailed to the wall. You could not let out water with a temperature suitable for your use, with out getting a gold sprinkle on your shoulders first. Hot water was not hot enough as high as the deck 9.

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