| 14 May, 2010 Friday Celebrity Cruises “Eclipse” Opens the St. Petersburg 2010 Cruise Season |
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| Today - on a bright and sunny morning - the “Eclipse” sailed into the new Sea Facade cruise ship port of St. Petersburg. The day was most beautiful and the passengers delighted to have arrived in St. Petersburg during their Baltic voyage. DenRus port staff welcomed and received all passengers, who had booked their tours with our company. During a brief conversation with some of the arriving guests, while they were rushing to their transportation units, our representatives asked them, how was the disembarkation organized by the ship? Everyone replied that Celebrity handled the situation excellently and smoothly. | ||||||||||
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14 May, 2010-Some of the DenRus staff waiting for our guests to disembark; l-r Elena. Olga, Tatiana, Dinara, Zarmera, Joanna | |||||||||
| “There was neither any categorizing, nor any discrimination against those passengers, who had purchased their tours privately, and not participating in the ship’s own tours. The Moscow tour passengers were allowed to exit the ship first, and immediately after them we were allowed to disembark, too. So here we are, ready to start our DenRus tour!” At the new St. Petersburg Cruise Passenger Terminal there are 36 passport control booths for each arriving ship, and provided they will all be manned , and continue working on each ship’s call, there should be no crowding to be expected. The official scheduled arrival time of “Eclipse” was 07:00 AM, and the first DenRus tour bus on our “Complete St. Petersburg” tour departed at 07:40, and the second bus followed at 07:45. It is clear that all our passengers had carefully read our briefing and instructions regarding the arrival procedures in the morning of the first day in St. Petersburg. |
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| 14 May-Eclipse at dock next to the 2nd of the new "Marine Facade" passenger terminals | ||||||||||
For our future guests it is worth mentioning, that the summer has officially arrived in St. Petersburg, and also to all the entire Baltic Sea region, and the high temperature of today is expected to reach 27 Celsius (about 81 Fahrenheit). |
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14 May, 2010-DenRus guide, Svetlana, being excitedly greeted by her repeat guests . |
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14 May, 2010 – Friday
DenRus opened its German season by welcoming passengers aboard Norwegian Sun to Rostock/Warnemunde, and we operated our first “Complete Berlin” tour of 2010. Many of the same Berlin passengers had booked, and will participate later in the “Complete St. Petersburg” tour, when arriving in Russia on the 17th of May.
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15 May, 2010 – Saturday: DenRus welcomed all its passengers arriving in St. Petersburg aboard P&O’s Arcadia, and participating in our different selection of 2-day tours. A sample letter of passengers on the ship: M.S.
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| 16 May, 2010 – Sunday:
Star Princess arrived early in the morning at 06:30 AM in St. Petersburg with a large amount of participants on our 2-day “Complete St. Petersburg” tour. All participants disembarked extremely swiftly, and reported to our port agents at 06:40. They all checked in as a group, because they had obviously made an agreement between themselves to find each other during the cruise, and prior to the arrival in St. Petersburg, to gather together aboard the ship in the morning of the arrival , and then exit all as one group. Our last tour departed the port area around 07:20 AM. The unbelievably beautiful, warm, and sunny summer weather has continued in St. Petersburg since the 14th of May, when we opened our season. |
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25 May, 2010 – Friday: Star Princess arrived for her second St. Petersburg visit during the current Baltic cruise season, and unfortunately it rained solid almost both days. Regardless of that the touring spirit on our DenRus tours was kept high, thanks to our excellent guides. Here is one of of the many letters we have received from our gusts: |
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