One of the challenges of preparing for four weeks at sea is being aware of what electrical plugs are available on your ship. J dismissed my concerns about this and said – they always have 110 Volt plugs (typical North American plugs) on ships. My spidey senses were working overtime when I chose to buy an international adaptor the night before we flew to Asia. I knew the adaptor would be helpful when we Taiwan and Thailand at the start and end of the trip where we would be staying in hotels. What I didn’t appreciate was how essential the international travel adaptor would be on the ship.
On the Norwegian Sun we have one 110 volt plug at the desk in the room and two 220 volt plugs. Beside the bed you can also find two USB – A plugs – now the old style of USB’s which most iPhones don’t use anymore. Phones in the last few years have been moving to the smaller, universal USB-C plugs. There is a convertible plug from 110 to 220 V in the bathroom for razors that we never use. For the record we are in an Oceanview room, but the same electrical plug configuration seems to be the same in the verandah staterooms.
This is the PlugBug 120 international adaptor made by twelve south and purchased at my local Apple store – it has four USB-C ports. Three are constantly in use (one for my computer, one for my anker charger that chargers my phone and my watch overnight and one for my recently purchased power bank). J uses the one North American plug for his phone charger. If I hadn’t purchased the adaptor – charging electronic devices would have been much more stressful. I could have brought my very inexpensive extension cord that could have saved grief too!
The Norwegian Sun is an older ship that is slated to be sold off in 2027. I don’t recall the same limitations for electrical plugs on the Norwegian Prima when we sailed it in 2023. So if you are going on a cruise in the future, you might want to try to investigate what kinds of plug ins exist on the ship on which you are sailing, so that you are prepared!
On this hot day at sea, J, Jessica and I all went for a walk around the ship on Deck 6 for fresh air and exercise. We followed it up with trivia in the Bliss Lounge at 9:15 am. J was too modest to say we deserved the win with only 17 answers, because we had seen the questions on the last cruise, but on the last cruise we only got 9 correct! The next best team got 16 questions correct!
The bridge players had a game in the library at 10 am. I went up on deck 11 to enjoy the warmth and drink a hot chocolate. Many others were using all the pool deck chairs today – and deck chair saving was in full force!
Then I had a lovely face/audio call with our oldest son JG and showed him the Thai silk shirt we bought for him. It will coordinate perfectly with an outfit he has planned for a wedding in March! Mother’s intuition!
After lunch we went to the room and we both promptly had a nap – and then J struggled with getting our Thailand Digital Arrival card updated. It has been a challenge – because you need to identify all the countries you visited in the past 14 days (and that has been a lot for us). You have to know abbreviations for all the countries (that are not necessarily intuitive) – and the drop-down menus on the website were not working – so the process took him a patient hour to complete Thai Arrival cards for both of us.
The four of us played Five Crowns in the library at 4 pm. We then had our second specialty restaurant meal of this cruise at Los Lobos, the Mexican restaurant. Jessica got GF corn tortillas, which she was craving yesterday. I loved the guacamole, made tableside. J’s favourite part was probably the decaf coffee he ordered at the end which turned out to have tequila and kahlua in it! Best coffee of the cruise! I am not sure what Lynn liked best – but we were all glad to eat here!
Lynn retired to their room while J, Jessica and I had one more quick game of Five Crowns.
Tomorrow we have our one and only stop in Cambodia – so we headed back to the room to make sure we were organized for the early morning once again.
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