WTF???
Thursday, September 18, 2008
So I am pretty upset with Semester At Sea currently. First of all, I really didn't want to go on the Fall 2009 voyage because I would have much rather preferred to go the Southern route and hit Namibia and South Africa. But whatever - I am still sailing around the world and I'll take Egypt. But now with this new monkey wrench thrown in I might wait until Spring 2010. The brilliant people at SAS decided to change the itinerary for Fall 2009 and it blows!! Here it is
Fall 2009 Itinerary/Calendar
Destination | Arrive Depart | Day | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | Depart | Friday | 28 August | 1700 |
| Casablanca, Morocco | Arrive Depart | Saturday Wednesday | 05 September 09 September | 0800 2000 |
| Dubrovnik, Croatia | Arrive Depart | Monday Friday | 14 September 18 September | 0800 2000 |
| Istanbul, Turkey | Arrive Depart | Monday Friday | 21 September 25 September | 0800 2000 |
| Alexandria / Port Said / Sharm El Sheikh, Egpyt | Arrive Depart | Monday Saturday | 28 September 03 October | 0800 2000 |
(Transit Suez Canal - Thursday, October 01) | ||||
| Chennai, India | Arrive Depart | Thursday Monday | 15 October 19 October | 0800 2000 |
| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Arrive Depart | Monday Saturday | 26 October 31 October | 0800 0600 |
(On-ship time is 2100 on Friday, October 30) | ||||
| Hong Kong / Xaimen, China | Arrive Depart | Tuesday Sunday | 03 November 08 November | 0800 2000 |
| Kobe / Yokohama, Japan | Arrive Depart | Thursday Monday | 12 November 16 November | 0800 2000 |
(Cross International Dateline; Add One Day) | ||||
| Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | Arrive Depart | Thursday Saturday | 26 November 28 November | 0600 2000 |
| San Diego, California, USA | Arrive | Sunday | 06 December | 0800 |
Umm Canada and no Guatemala and not to mention now ending in California?? The real kicker is now we are traveling EAST! Not WEST! that means we will lose an hour of sleep every night rather than gain one. The other thing is that we are only visiting 8 countries! (9 if you count Canada, but I'm not) What happened to the 11-12 I was promised! This is so lame. If they don't update it again soon, I will probably wait until the next spring. On the plus side of that at least I would have more money saved up.
And speaking of money, not only has SAS blown this itenerary, it has also boosted its prices by $4,000! Now the cheapest cabin is over $21,000. I have yet to break the news to mom and dad. I don't see that being a happy conversation. Gah this is so aggravating. Good thing I changed majors and it has now forced me to be in college forever so I have the option of going a different semester. Mom would probably be happy because then I would not be gone pretty much the entire year - spending a semester in Orlando that is. I guess (hope!) everything will work out. Or maybe I should just wait until the spring iteneary comes out and then make my decision. That sounds like a good plan. I'll go with that.
