Mock Cruising

At The Crown Hotel

DAY ONE
Welcome aboard! Collect your cabin key from the Purser’s Office and start finding your sea legs! Meet your fellow passengers at the Captain’s Welcome Reception followed by dinner, bingo and excellent on-board entertainment until 11.30pm. The departure of the S.S. Crown from Weymouth will be celebrated in style, party poppers and streamers provided!!

DAY TWO
We are in CANNES – the Film Festival capital of the Cote d’Azure. Full English Breakfast plus a croissant to set you up for a great day! This evening you will enjoy a pre-dinner ‘Bucks Fizz’ reception and a candlelit meal in our balmy little bistro-café under the watchful eye of Rene, the Maitre d’. A complimentary glass of wine, bingo, first class entertainment presented by the famous Monsieur Pierre plus a dazzling Cabaret Show will get you in the swing! Don’t miss it! Get dressed up as a fabulous star and the Captain may award you with the Palme d’Or. Bring a camera - Grab the Captain (steady!) for a photo with you in your outfit!! What an idea! And why not? Oooooooo la la!

DAY THREE
CURACAO, the exotic home of the Flying Dutchman (no he didn’t have a magic carpet!). After breakfast your transport will climb up to the old inland town of Puerto Dorchesto and on to the ancient plantation at San Athelhamptos for a complimentary light lunch and a tour of the spectacular gardens before returning to the SS Crown for a pre-dinner ‘Planters Punch’, a specially themed dinner, complimentary glass of wine, bingo, full entertainment programme to 11.30pm (to include fancy dress competition with prizes, no special theme). Don’t sit on a cadushi - it’s a very fierce cactus!! Watch out, watch out - Go - Go - Go!!!

DAY FOUR
Welcome to VENICE - you’ll go overboard! After breakfast don’t fall in the Trinity Canal as you disembark to explore the local sights. Hail a gondola, check out the lifeboat just over the Bridge of Sighs - watch out for the water taxis they really shift! Wander around the quaint streets and grab a coffee on a Piazza. Explore the Grand Canal, pop into the old Venetian Bars (New Vic) for a hot chocolate or a cool bier. Was that a gondola? Wow! Could it be? Return to your liner for a cream tea (to remind you of home!), join the crew for a crisp aperitif followed by a stupendous dinner, complimentary glass of wine, bingo, entertainment to 11.30pm plus a special cabaret at 9.30pm. After all that, treat yourself to a chilled glass of something in the Atlantic Bar- Oh well alright then, have a glass of beer - enjoy.

The Hotel Management reserves the right to vary this programme at short notice