Travel Photos and Videos: Super Star Virgo

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Sunday, 14 August 2011

Weekend cruise to Redang.

I went away for a short break this weekend, taking the Super Star Virgo to Pulau Redang in Malaysia.

Tenders waiting to bring passengers to Pulau Redang from the ship.

This shot was taken from the tender that I was on as we left the ship.

At the jetty of Laguna Redang Island Resort.

A novel mode of transport.

A beautiful sandy beach.

This reminds me a bit of Bintan.

I like this shot which shows the cruise ship in the distance.

This RM8 coconut was a disappointment. Nothing like those in Phuket. :(

Map of Redang and surrounding islands.

We knew we were back in home waters quite easily this morning. ;)

Thursday, 13 January 2011

I just came back from a short vacation with my parents on the Star Virgo. It is my fourth time cruising to Penang and Phuket on the Star Virgo and the second time with my parents. I still enjoy it. Lots of good food, great entertainment and I like the feeling of sailing on a big ship, waking up each morning in a different port of call.

This time round, we had a room without a balcony. Instead, we had a window. Photos of the room:

Children's pool:

Top deck:

Bow of the ship:

Sunlight piercing through the clouds, illuminating a patch of sea. Looks divine?

Penang's Cruise Centre as seen through our room's window:

Taken as we walked alongside the ship in Penang:

Sunday, 24 October 2010

Entertainment on board Super Star Virgo.

I much prefer going on a cruise than taking a plane. It is more comfortable anytime, in my opinion.

I also enjoyed the life performances on the cruises very much. Some of these were protected by international intellectual properties laws but those which were performed by the ship's own crew were not and we were allowed to take videos of them showing off their talents.

I took some videos with my little digital camera and I am sharing a clip here. I learned that I cannot upload videos onto blogs directly from SD cards. I have started a YouTube account to show videos on my blog via YouTube. I am getting to be less of an IT dinosaur by the day, it seems. ;)

Please pardon the poor video quality. Photos, I can take quite well but I need do a lot better on being a videographer. ;p

Star Cruise to Penang and Phuket.

I was just sorting through my SD cards when I found one which has some travel photos and videos taken while I was on holiday on the Super Star Virgo some time ago. Nice memories and I would like to share some of these. I could just plonk these in my investment blog, ASSI, but since I am trying to declutter that blog, I started a new blog for these:

This is the ship's pool deck with their new water slide:

Penang's Cruise Centre which was still under construction on this trip:

A spanking new mall, Queensbay Mall:

A must whenever I visit Penang is a visit to this shop to buy Nutmeg Oil, which is good for muscle aches, headaches and stomach aches. Apparently, Penang makes the best Nutmeg Oil, being home to vast nutmeg plantations. My Malaysian friends tell me to only buy Nutmeg Oil from Penang and not Melaka:

These were the tenders which ferried us between the ship and Penang. Now, it's no longer necessary as the cruise centre in Penang has been completed and cruise ships could dock next to the cruise centre. So, passengers could just walk down a ramp from the ship to go on land. My parents and I used the new cruise centre when we took the same ship to Penang earlier this year.

Our ship, Super Star Virgo, as taken through the window of a tender on our way back to the ship:

A beautiful sunrise as we got into Phuket, which was a lot more fun than Penang:

Plenty of these wooden boats with propellars on very long shafts in Patong Beach:

Taxis or "tut-tuts" in Phuket:

Lunch in Phuket Town, authentic "Pat Tai":

Nothing like a cool glass of coconut juice topped with succulent coconut flesh in the sweltering afternoon heat. Guess what? It was only 60c a glass! I had 4 glasses!