Thursday, August 23 – the Redondo Beach Hotel, LA

Need to be gone from our cabin by 8.30am and off the ship by 9.30am.  We are not hurrying as we can’t book in to our hotel until this afternoon so taking time to enjoy our last morning on board.  So breakfast - just fruit today then we collect our bags and head back up to the pool deck to while away an hour or so.

We are almost the last off the boat, in fact as we are standing in a line of 8 or so to have our room key pass scanned, they call us along with some others, over the loudspeaker.  But we still end up in a queue once off the boat to get through the final check.

Once on land again we organise an Uber to take us to the Redondo Beach Hotel, arriving around 10.30am.  Our room is not ready but we can store our bags while we relax in the comfy chairs in the nice bright lobby, help ourselves to a coffee, water etc, go for a walk – separately, because we still have some heavy stuff with us and generally make ourselves at home.  The WIFI is very good here too!

The Redondo Beach Hotel. LA

We’re installed in our room by 2.30pm and it is lovely - a harbour view, spacious, bright and airy, sliding door to a little balcony, plush beds, huge flat screen TV, Keurig coffee maker, a nice tiled bathroom with lots of vanity space and quality soaps etc, much more like it!  A beautiful resort by the sea, we will enjoy this : )

The roof top deck and patio area, perfect for catching some rays and having a read

Have time for an hour or so sitting on the roof deck on the first floor, before it’s time for HH down in the lobby.  The hotel puts on nibbles, wine and beer for the guests, Mon – Thus from 5pm to 6.30pm.  So we enjoy a wine or two, rather a lot of nibbles, in fact enough so that we don’t feel like dinner afterwards, and then relax back in the room watching a movie.

View from our deck as the sun sets over the marina across the road