London Day 1 – Regal Princess Transatlantic Cruise Southampton to Fort Lauderdale October 2023
Hello hello so where are we Virgin Atlantic on a Virgin Atlantic plan why flying to London we are flying to London so pretty cool we got a not business class but a premium a premium class for similar to business class on other um airlin so we got some goodies so let’s take a
Look okay so for the goodies der’s going to show us what we got that’s not one that I think some BL we got some I guess earphones and we got sleep stuffff toothbrush I think fresh you tooth fa it’s probably it could be a European Bland and then you got a
Blanket blanket and then there going to open up the menu so we can see what’s in that all included all in getting ready to go got the bar oh bar for the 8 hour flight let’s get ready a back pillow pillow because you got a pillow oh yeah
It’s in my back so we got a pillow as well so there us it as a back pillow cuz we also have this so we’ll see we’ll see how it goes 8 hours in London all right so what did you get champagne champagne this is how we start a fight yes cheers all
Right so what did you get what dinner dinner all right let’s peel it open see what you got h any go cheese some dessert and drink I got the but my drink I got a Mal from red wine in can that oh I’m a grow on vacation oh this is cute these little
Breakfast here some sausage waffle and the same thing as far as the size so going yes we’re hot we have made it to London wow it’s kind of weird we are actually here um the flight was actually pretty good didn’t sleep as well as I
Hoped but we were able to take the train the tube the tube was about roughly an hour yeah roughly an hour and there were stairs so we had to take all of our luggage up mini many many flight flight flights upstairs but we are here we are hot but
We will get the day started CU we have a lot to do we’re doing our free walking tour we’re going to Chinatown we’re going to the briish museum and then we have reservations at a really popular Indian restaurant so we are going to you forgot to mention the the the flight was
Awesome the food tons of food they just stuffed you with food it was amazing yeah the food was actually very surprisingly really good I was very shocked by that so it was a lot of uh European uh Brands um for the food so that was really cool to start eating
Things that were made in the UK or in France and so it was pretty cool not bad at all we’ll do a quick room tour because the room tour will be very quick it is uh it is probably like yeah like a dorm maybe even smaller than a
Dorm room I would assume I’ve never been to New York but I’m assume probably the size of a New York hotels maybe but uh be a quick quick room uh tour the the staff has been great so far um so that’s it and then the next time we’ll see you we’ll be
Outdoors all right we’re going to do a quick room tour so this right here is the front door that you come in and then pretty immediate is the bathroom now it’s a tiny tiny I’m not even sure where let’s see are these is this the light to the
Bathroom yes so nice bathroom but it is very very small very tiny but Le is a separate shower so that’s pretty cool and the shower is pretty big so that’s good and then you step right in to the bedroom to where the bed is that’s it
Next to the door and then we have two Windows to look out of uh which is nice to kind of see London see the streets it’s pretty cool Central London central London at um the assembly Hotel so pretty good so that’s it and we and we have a pink
Bunny that is the hotel room teeny tiny but it serves its purpose for what we needed to do today make sure it’s on the walk be Street it could be in h gr but he’d want to be coming back now we’ve had enough of him
In missing he needs to be back in the next week or two or else we’ll have to send him rather Stern leure my lovies anyway and Palace the London Home and Office of his majesty King Charles II and queen Camila not the residents of choice never has been folks the
Residents of choice have always been kind of different properties they kind of perceive okay just ladies and gentlemen this is the home 6 hours 2 hours 6s 4 it t to be quite difficult for them to stand in the same position with that heavy weapon so every
Now and then they’ll do a little drill up and down kind of to exercise the joints and get them blood pumping and that’s two soldiers obiously they went on yest we’re here at Park a break from the tour like a security camera they minst in the West Minster the former
Name for an Abby and Westminster Abby there has been a site of Christian worship on the side fonks for over 1,000 years King William the Conqueror of England R his horse of the aisle of Westminster ABY on Christmas Day 1066 on day we de King of England ever
Since every king and queen in British history with the exception of only two have all been crowned inside Westminster alley including her majesty Queen Elizabeth thei go around this way just be careful this a big bin we’re heading to Parliament this is theor power 10 down the street horse guards parade
The cabinet office the Welsh office the ministry of Defense the foreign and Commonwealth office this area ladies and gents there are 300,000 CCTV cameras in L everywhere you go you are traed I’m pretty sure 299,000 of them are on this very Street this is without a question of doubt the most
Secure Street in Britain this is the Senate half the most important British war memorial in the W it’s white Bo pickle B don’t Twi the out b car bman see walk back I bman F and whe be back for sh Jack please to your p back left heart CES
Everything you wish for everything and more can we take a picture with the actual yes keep wait for months Spanish and French fleets in the battle of chaal and the four black PS you see at the base depict his four most famous victories the bombardment of Copenhagen
The battle of the Nile the Battle of Kate St Vincent and the Battle of chaalo however and I’m sorry to do this to you before your lunch he famously lost his life in the battle of chipala another one off the list com we are here ATO this nice spicy delicious Indian I radius
Mixture we have some fried oprra um some chicken and rice something that’s very spicy um some black beans doll and a chicken Curry amazing excellent food excellent drink a little like this CH here chili chne Prett good I like it scared me for a moment but it’s pretty good was it worth the
Walk a short walk yeah perfect tury and my Virgin drink yay first birthday celebration yeah there you go toold you’re cold so we are in Southampton I thought it would be a little bit more of a sleepy town but it’s really not it’s pretty vibrant um we are looking for some fish and
Chips something that we probably definitely need to do being in the UK so we are headed around trying to see what we can find uh it’s interesting that everything well not everything most things close and at between 5:00 p.m. is um most of the stores on Sunday so I guess
After you may want to find out oh then maybe after 5:00 p.m. it becomes a sleepy town perhaps but more vibrant than I anticipated pretty cool okay so we are here at this Beau restaurant so tell me what happened why are we here uh we went to go get some
Fish and chips from the local place and they supposed to be open till 800 and they were not they were not they were closed yes seems to be the going theme here in Southampton things are closing early on Sunday so we made it to a plan
B to a restaurant called all bar one they do have fishing chips here but they seem they have any servers yep everything is uh through the app and digital and scan and stuff actually very efficient everything is QR code so we haven’t seen a server we found our own table and we ordered
Everything and you pay before you get the food so you pay first and then they cook your food and you tip first too yeah but the tips are all in one kind of everything’s all included yeah so like they have a back tap back tap that’s automatically added to your bill so when
You pay you don’t have to tip extra yeah but how long you speak to the camera there you go tell them how it is well so so we don’t have a tip extra like you do in the US which is nice I suppose but because it’s automatically
Added if you didn’t like your service I mean I guess you can ask for the take off the B Tas I don’t know but we’ll see so we’ll see what everything looks like and tastes like when it comes out because we wanted some authentic fishing
Chips that one of those p in the Wall restaurant and that didn’t happen so we are trying this restaurant and hopefully it will be just as good I mean I don’t have a comparison I never had fish before but hopefully it’ll be good be flavorful at least it’s a place in the
Country that uh we’ve never tried before so it’s prob going to be new anyway yes and Dereck is most excited about is Guinness he said that I I checked up my list my bucket list and His Bucket List was Guinness and he hasn’t had it so
He’s getting it today I had one item one item took us till today to get it what did we do for you everything everything the horse the everything stood near the king’s horse took pictures went to the British museum I mean a brief fby we went inside Indian
Restaurant yes went to the Indian restaurant so my L we did so and I had one thing that one thing we almost missed it cuz everything’s closing so we’ll see how this one thing tastes when he gets it I’m not sure whether I came on but the Guinness is
Hair was it everything than you hoped it would be mhm it’s the spot it’s the spot it’s better than American Guinness why it’s different they they Manu they make it like Canada or something like that so it’s just different it’s like a slightly different recipe that’s what I read I really want
To go to Ireland actually we see now it looks like we have another bucket list coming up the whole table we found fish and chips people there the Clinton actual fish like the fin you see the fin you see the tail actual fish and they just C oh yeah yeah oh oh n
Traveled on Virgin Atlantic in Premium Class from Miami to London for our 15-Day Regal Princess Transatlantic Cruise from Southampton to Fort Lauderdale October 2023. Direct flight on October 6th and landed on October 7th at 6am and toured London for 1 day before heading to Southampton for a night before our October 9th transatlantic crossing.
15-Day Regal Princess Transatlantic Cruise October 9th 2023
Southampton, England
Le Havre/Paris, France
Bilbao, SpainLa Coruna, Spain
Lisbon, Portugal
Azores Islands, Portugal
Assembly Covent Garden
https://www.assemblyhotels.com/
Free Tours by Foot – Westminster Tour
Dishoon
https://www.dishoom.com/covent-garden/
All Bar One Southampton
https://www.allbarone.co.uk/national-search/south-east/all-bar-one-southampton/food
Premier Inn Southampton West Quay hotel
https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/hampshire/southampton/southampton-city-centre-west-quay.html
National Express Bus
https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
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