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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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2-person cabin does (C49 --
the one I managed to reserve for 3 of the 4 segments). As the cabins on
this deck have no en-suite bathroom or shower, there are four communal
showers and Mens and Ladies toilets nearby.
"B-deck" is the level passengers embark and disembark the ship on, and is
also the level with some of the nicest cabins (the Governor of St. Helena
and his wife stayed in B-36). Located near the entrance is the ship's store
(selling St. Helena souvenirs and books, film, snacks, laundry soap,
toiletries, and other miscellaneous items), the purser's bureau, hotel
services, and the booth with the satellite phone, a South African cardphone
(for use when the ship is docked in Cape Town), and an email terminal.
There's also a bathtub and private bathroom for anyone to use at the end of
the hallway across from cabin B39, but hardly anyone even knew it was
there. On both B and A decks, there's a pantry where you can go anytime of
the day or night to make yourself a cup of tea or coffee.
"A-deck" has a lot of cabins, a pantry, the ship's laundry (two washers
and two dryers as well as a drip-dry room -- free for anyone to use), public
bathrooms, the doctor's office, the exercise room (suspiciously right across
from the doctor's office -- when I mentioned that fact later to the doctor,
he chuckled), and the main lounge (facing front, though as it's in the
middle of the ship, there's no view of the water in front). The exercise
room is better than nothing, but is by no means a gym: a small room with
windows, it has only one exercise bike, two "pull-up-bike" machines, one
sitting bench, a floor mat, and a scale. The main lounge on A deck has a
bar and tables to eat at, but only a small portion is declared
"non-smoking", and smoke circulates through the entire room. The small
alcove which constitutes
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
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Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
