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hey cruisers guess what today is it is embarkation day. Welcome to San
Francisco we just got off the freeway and we are making our way down into the
city into the Embarcadero area and my nav says that it's gonna take us 23
minutes to go the remaining two point seven miles to the ship so we thought
we'd say hello you get this vlogging party started
So you can tell from the sound of my voice has been a little bit of a
difficult day I'm experiencing severe allergies and as a result I have a
terrible cough had to go to the drugstore and get some cough suppressant
so I could even talk and now I'm feeling a lot better so we just made the drive
from Gilroy up to San Francisco is gorgeous 72 degrees outside and sunny
doesn't get any better than this in San Francisco there is ZERO marine layer
right now it's gorgeous it's about 11 o'clock we're a little bit running a
little bit later than usual just a little bit of a slow start but we're
really excited we are if we haven't mentioned it yet we are going on the
Grand Princess for a 10 night Alaska cruise round-trip San Francisco we're
gonna be visiting Ketchikan Skagway Juneau and on the way back down we're
gonna be visiting Victoria British Columbia and I think I might be in the
wrong lane right now so I might have to change lanes but anyways yep I got to
change lanes guys next time we see you will probably be showing you around the
baggage drop-off area if we can and also the parking area for the port of San
Francisco we are cruising out of pier 27 today but there is no real parking at
the pier so we're going to be parking at 80 Francisco and we're gonna try to
explain that process to you guys a little bit because it's kind of
confusing for people who have never cruised out of San Francisco before so
we'll see in a little bit
Alright you guys, baggage drop at Pier 27 to San Francisco is a hot mess
we couldn't find a porter, and my husband almost got hit by a car and it took
forever so it is now 11:45 and you just have to build in extra massive amounts
of extra time if you're cruising out of San Francisco it's just very
metropolitan very crowded very unorganized
there's just no infrastructure for the pickup that's happening here of people
who are getting off the ship and the drop-off of people are coming in so I
got to go cuz I got to go get our parking Panda directions so we'll show
you guys where to park if you come to San Francisco Park so like I mentioned
there is no parking in the port of San Francisco nation is on your lap yeah the
destination is here okay so you have to park at 80 Francisco Street if you are
going to the port of San Francisco and it is right here we are about maybe a
block away from the cruise port but you have to take a few turns so what you do
is you get online and you make a reservation with parking panda or in
park for 80 Francisco Street unfortunately it's like 16 bucks a day
and I'm gonna talk to this nice lady so one more moment it's the parking garage
is right behind us and we're walking like two blocks to the ship it is such a
pretty day in San Francisco my only wish is that we were running a little bit
earlier today so what I thought was like a block walk is more like a half a mile
but there is the ship and that that's where we came from somewhere over
yonder anyway it's quite a hoof so you
definitely do want to drop off your luggage if it's heavy
before you park at 80 Francisco moral of the story drop off your luggage pretty
big I realize
made it inside the concourse kind of see outside terminals beautiful here not
sure I'm supposed to be filming so we'll keep this short
all right priority check-in that was smooth security was smooth now nice
young man is helping us to get our cruise cards and our foot back and to
get on board soon as we got our cards we got to board so here we go crossing the
gangplank all right we made it on board and we're gonna take a look around the
room I have an inside cabin on this cruise because it saved us like two to
three thousand dollars you guys so maybe not ideal but but we're used to it and
we have a secret door right out the back of the ship that takes us out to the
terrace pool that is literally maybe 20 feet away so we'll show you that in a
bit but let's take a look around the room we're excited to be on board ok so
when you first walk into an inside cabin on Grand Princess it looks a little bit
like this we have a quad room even though there's only three of us first
thing you see here is the closet nice supply of hangers life vests and of
course we just have our bags kind of sitting there because my husband ran off
to go do the ship tour okay back in the door full-length mirror which is really
nice it's good a nice huh so maybe we'll do some of our outfit of
the day videos in here and this is the full-length closet with shelves that was
a little high that's gonna be my husband and then it's safe which appears to be a
combination operated so this is not a credit card operated okay and then a
series of shelves going all the way down to the floor and we'll take a quick look
at the restroom okay pretty standard restroom smells like
vinegar it has shelves just on the one side here of the bathroom and those are
the amenities for now anyway I'm not seeing the robes here yet we did
ask for robes but before we leave me show you the shower
pretty standard nice and tall I've seen I've seen bigger and crazy turbo flush
cruise toilet and then we have our two beds here now when you have upper bunks
they will not allow you to push these beds together so something that you've
probably seen before in our vlogs there's the second bed which we won't be
using okay and then of course we have over here the flat-screen TV which is
usually showing Love Boat reruns but it's not today it's a nice flat-screen
pretty big - and if I'm not mistaken there's probably an outlet up there
anyways okay over here we have some the cup that comes with the soda package and
then we have a mini fridge let's take a look at the mini fridge let's see if
it's empty it just has water in it so that's nice
and we can put our Lacroix in there that will be cool and then we have our
standard little vanity table here with your remote telephone hairdryer and it
looks like some other little things here shore excursion information a card for
our stateroom steward and some onboard deals it's pretty much about the cabin
pretty tiny this is gonna be our home for 10 nights. Scott singer of Scott
singer cruises here on YouTube told us all about a secret back door on Grand
Princess that takes you out to the terrace pool I think it's called so my
son and I are gonna go check it out right now
supposedly it's right out that door if that looks like heaven raised let's go
so check it out you ready right to the terrace pool
that beautiful this is awesome okay so there's a little door very cool so
pretty on the back of the ship you guys right now look at San Francisco behind
us I need to get my shades on but how gorgeous is that with that big huge flag
blowing so pretty
something going on out there. One thing I've never really done before is vlog myself
unpacking getting our room kind of organized so I thought I would show you
guys that so I just opened up this giant suitcase down here on the floor and I'm
kind of taking everything out of it and the first thing I'm going to do is I'm
going to take our outerwear out of this giant compression bag you guys will not
believe how much is in this thing it's really funny my husband got out the
compression bags in the pump so let's open it and see how big everything gets
and how fast I don't think it really even does it justice but that teeny tiny little
pancake pretty much all over giant pokey outerwear so basically I'm just getting
all of this stuff hung up in the closet and oh they're making the announcement
for the muster drill so you probably have to cut this short but I've started
to get really organized put things in the fridge and put these the drawers and
then put things in the closet I do want to show you guys with the claws it looks
like full come with me really quick
they're not calling ups the closets pretty small but I'm kind of getting it
all squared away I just want to give you guys a general idea of how many hangers
are in here because I know a lot of people are curious princess is pretty
good about hangers and there's a ton of pant hangers and then probably about ten
regular nice wooden hangers too and they're just real hangers they're not
the type that you get in a hotel room or you like you know you have to put the
little hook into the bar so you don't steal the hanger so I really appreciate
that about Princess it's really nice so this is ask getting organized it's
definitely not done yet but I'm anxious to unpack before the muster drill today
I just feel like I want to get settled in probably because it's a smaller room
so we're gonna head to the muster drill
we're underway in San Francisco with our telltale trail of seagulls
so warm you guys this is not normal for San Francisco
absolutely beautiful so enjoy sail away go to one of the upper decks and get a
little bit of dancing
What do you say we bring back the drink of the day tradition I'm loving their gin
martinis and I'm going for the Bronx which is Tanqueray and perfect vermouth
who and orange juice City it's going to be good or too sweet for me
Proper martini glass and everything, Ronnie that is so good thank you so much oh no I think I
have a new favorite
all right the muster drill is over we've sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge
our son is swimming in not warm but a hot heated outdoor pool were under the
elements right now it's so beautiful and they are setting up
setting up for movies under the stars it's a gorgeous night in San Francisco
awesome sail away you have to check out the big screen right here it's amazing
so it's 5:30 ish and we change our are assigned 5:30 dining time to a seven
o'clock standing reservation into anytime dining or much I didn't know you
could do but apparently if you're willing to give up your 5:30 table you
can have pretty much anything you want so we got a reservation at 7:00 so our
plan is to let our son swim he's been wanting to swim all day but it hasn't
really been possible and then we're going to go enjoy the Platinum lounge
it's at the at the club where Skywalker's would normally be on one of
these ships and have reduced-price drinks and guacamole and chips and then
head over to dinner I'm not even sure that we're going to change clothes
tonight for dinner usually we do but I'm feeling like this is a really really
casual cruise with a pretty casual vibe so they will just stay in these clothes
and see how it goes but right now the little man is just climbing into the hot
tub he's having the time of his life just him and one little boy are enjoying
this amazing pool the covered pool is actually closed and so are the hot tubs
but this is so warm out here and so quiet and it's not very windy yet that
it really doesn't matter so we're he'd be really really low speed
until we get out of San Francisco they said that once you go to the Golden Gate
and you motor along until about 9:30 in whale protected waters so you have to be
really careful to go really slow so not a lot of movement on the ship tonight
and not a lot of wind it's really really beautiful we're having a very relaxing
time it's starting to get in the groove
so you guys remember our Star Princess vlogs from last year where we discovered
the little loyalty lounge that they have so on the Grand Princess they known to
have Skywalker's lounge they took that big old arch off of the ship and they
replaced it with this adorable venue called Club One5 is it the club One 5 honey? and
it's this cute swanky a flange on Deck 15 that overlooks the aft pool and between
5 and 7 if you're platinum or elite I think something like that I don't really
know the loyalty levels that well you come back here and get drink specials
and free snacks before dinner and tonight I got the Mayan mule for 650
that's a pretty good deal for a cruise drink and it's basically a Moscow Mule
with tequila and it's really really good a little bit sweet for my taste but
really tasty and it's chips and guacamole tonight so kind of a Mexican
themed but anyway this is the most adorable venue well of course show you
around a little bit in the vlog today and in our ship tour it's just the best
way to kind of get a snack and a nice deal on a cocktail as an appreciation
for being a loyal princess cruiser the break of dinner we will be here probably
just about every single night Cheers our first day has flown by
I cannot remember a time when I was more tired than I am today at the end of a
day one I know that battling a cough and having not been feeling well maybe
having allergies has been a factor in that but has just been a very very very
long day overall the day was great and our princess experience has been amazing
I love that we had chocolates on our pillows when we came back to our room
after dinner and the good old classic come back new her usable bags see which
on the back on the bed awesome so a lot of things went really well today our
servers in the main dining room at dinner were amazing we got a wonderful
table our cabin steward is adorable his name is Marc Anthony and he is so sweet
and so polite and so high-energy it's unbelievable
the only thing I think that we wish would have gone differently is we would
have got an earlier start and been on the ship earlier but overall embarkation
was amazing the day was great and we're really excited to get into the cruise so
be sure to stick around you guys and come back and watch the rest of the
vlogs because today it's just the beginning and we're going to Ketchikan
Juneau Skagway and Victoria British Columbia so that is gonna be so much fun
we're hoping for good weather there's been a lot of rain the last few weeks
I'm hearing over and over again how cold and rainy it has been so I guess we'll
just have to see what the weather brings and what kind of surprises are coming
but we have so many fun episode's coming for you guys and really appreciate you
tuning in for another awesome embarkation Day vlog until next time
we'll see you on the high seas bye
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