Honeymoon Facts!
Ship name
Avalon Panorama
Ship room number
306
Total photos taken
2,475
Top spot we want to go back to
Inner-Switzerland (for the alps, like hiking in Lungern or Bettmerhorn)
Other good revisit places
Amsterdam (lots of museums, tulips, windmills)
Cologne (for the beer and other big Christmas Markets we missed)
Number of markets visited
4 (out of 8 in Koln, Stadgarten one looked good, Chlodwigplatz too) + 1 (Rudesheim) + 4 (out of 6 in Heidelberg, but we hit the good ones) + 8 (out of 8 in Stausbourg!) + 1 (technically 2, since the museum in Singerbach had one but it was semi-closed... Frieburg had a bigger one) + 6 (Luzren, counting the tree market) + 1 (Interlaken) + 2 (Basel) + 2 (London)
29 Christmas Markets out of 38 possible
Gluhwein mug count
23 (26 if you count the 3 plastic ones from Strausbourg)
Coolest mug
The boot from Strausbourg
Most expensive mug
Rudolph's Market in Luzren (15 CFH) (typically only $5-6)
Best gluhwein
Strabourg OFF Market (Organic Gluhwein)
Best Christmas Market
Koln/Cologne
Worst Christmas Market
Breisach
Steps per day (In descending order)
London (29,205, approx 9.5 mi)
Luzren+Rigi (21,514)
Strasbourg (21,337)
Mannlichen+Interlaken (20,909)
Amsterdam Day 2 (20,802)
Amsterdam Day 1 (20,547)
Luzren+Transit Museum (19,781)
Basel (16,962)
Koln (16,651)
Rudesheim (14,902)
Luzren first day (14,355)
Heidelberg (13,841)
Black Forest (11,841)
Heathrow Delay Day 1 (11,980)
Heathrow Panic Day 2 (7,705)
Departure Airport Day (4,388)
Number of train rides
3 (Heidelberg) + 1 (to lucerne) + 4 (funiciular) + 2 (funicular) + 1 (little push car) + 2 (funicular) + 3 (rigi) + 2 (funicular) + 5 (Alps) + 1 (basel) + 2 (london) + 2 (Terminal 5 to 3 and back) = 28 TOTAL TRAIN RIDES
Number of train rides not including hotel funicular
Still 18 !!
Coolest train
TBD (a lot of them were very similar and all made by Stadler)... maybe the SPATZ on die Zentralbahn because it was high speed but also cog when it needed to be
Most popular drink during cruise happy hour
Cosmopolitan, or red wine
For us it was a dry martini and whiskey sour
Average cruiser age
~65
Other cruise people we talked to
6 (Australians, Colombian guy, Long Island couple)
Cruise friends made
0
Number of clothes handwashing sessions
4
Clean clothes left after trip
3
Days jackets worn without washing
14
Times gluhwein spilled on jackets
At least 12 (go tide pens!). I swear whenever you walk the stuff spills no matter how little is left in the cup
Longest uninterrupted sleep
5 hours
Number flights
3+2 = 5
Times we used the Steam Deck to play Civ VI
0
Times we used the Steam Deck to write posts
16
Times we should've request laundry service on the ship but didn't
2
Youngest person on ship
In college somewhere (Lauren's doppelganger too)