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Transatlantic Crossing Day 16

Sea day

October 30, 2026 · 2 mins read

Start of day: At sea
End of day: At sea

Another sea day. The last full day of this cruise across the Atlantic.

Looking forward along an upper-deck promenade at sunset, with a polished wooden handrail and glass railing on the left above a glittering, choppy sea, and a curved wood-clad bar wall on the right beneath stacked black sunshade louvres. The low sun breaks through scattered clouds in a blue sky, casting long rays and shadows across the teal-and-wood deck toward a white radar dome in the distance

A wide view off the side of the ship at sunset, with the sun low over the open Atlantic behind banks of puffy white and grey clouds, its light glittering across dark blue water. A curving wooden handrail and glass panels run along the deck edge toward the bow, with a covered outdoor bar and radar domes on the right

Inside the Magic Carpet, the ship's orange cantilevered open-air lounge, under a curved translucent canopy with orange ribs, with an open laptop in the foreground on a white bar counter. Passengers relax in wicker armchairs and on a striped-cushion banquette facing tall windows and glass railings that look out over the open sea and a sky of soft sunset clouds

The ship's Solarium at night, an indoor pool area under a white geodesic glass dome with recessed lights, with an empty blue-lit pool and hot tub, a 'Solarium' sign, and rows of navy-cushioned loungers on a tiled floor. A large wall sculpture of shimmering blue fish-scale panels rises behind the hot tub, and tall white columns line the windows at the back

The worst night of them all:

A long stateroom corridor on the last night of the cruise, with tagged suitcases set outside cabin doors for overnight collection: a navy Samsonite and an olive bag in the foreground, a silver hard-shell case and a laden luggage cart farther down, under green emergency exit signs and over grey carpet with a red-and-grey geometric pattern

See you in the morning.

Part of the Transatlantic Crossing 2026 trip.