Swanning down the Seine
Pick-up Failure
23.06.2019 - 23.06.2019
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2019 Paris - Provence - Barcelona
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We got dressed to go on the River Boat Cruise for dinner. The taxi driver that picked us up was adamant that I should text the company that I had been picked up but I did not know what number to text and he didn't tell me. I should have asked. But we got to the boat in a timely manner - our reservation said either pillon 5 or 7, so he let us off at 7 but he asked the boat people at the 7 location and they said it was 5.
Boats - our boat is the Cristal
We went down to 5 and showed our ticket and got on the boat.
Table 400 ticket and a roll
We were at table 400 on the Cristal. There were some empty tables.
Dinner menu
Dinner table with juice - orange and apple
Mineral water to drink
Photographers picture of us- I look a little grumpy
Pulling away from the dock
We had a choice of an starter, main course and dessert. A. had the
Riviera style tomato salad and sorbet (fresh goat cheese with honey lemon vinaigrette)
which she said had a kind of tomato sorbet), and was good I had the
Prawns and Greek style vegetables
which proved to be cauliflower and carrots among others and was also good.We both had the 
Roast chicken supreme
which came with a separate dish of turnips, radishes and mushrooms.
Glazed baby turnips and radishes
And then we both had the Chocolate dessert
Dark chocolate mousse and raspberry sorbet
Our Route
I took about 163 photos during the cruise. Part of the time there were reflections if I was in the sun - sometimes shooting into the sun.
Eiffel tower
Under the Umbrella
Alexander III bridge
Underside of a bridge
Former RR station -Le Musee de Orsay
No anchoring
Walkers, cars and a boat
Mongol Figurehead on a boat
Dome
Number one with a green light
Picnics
Dancing
Dancing on the banks of the Seine
Houseboat - Le Peniche du Coeur
Bridges on the Seine
What is he looking at?
Acajou
Apartment building?
Party time
Dangling feet
No Parking
Batobus stop
No Parking
Someone has a good view of the Seine
Bridge detail
N is for Napoleon
Saint-Jacques tower (a free-standing tower not connected to any church), and the winged statue in the same picture is at the top of the column of the Palmier fountain at Place du Châtelet
Line for the Toilettes
Faces under the bridge
Power boat
Louvre?
Horse bas relief
Willow tree
Batobus - sightseeing boat
Equestrian statue by the bridge
White and gold decoration on a bridge
Horses at the Grand Palais
Statue of Liberty
Eiffel tower
The cruise ended at 7:30 but our pick-up was not scheduled until 2215 which would be 10:15 pm. It was still quite warm, as France was having a heat wave. I could not find any number to call in France, so I called the number on the voucher which proved to be Vacations to Go. They had no information to help me. So the lady who was checking people in called us a cab which she said would be there in 3 minutes. It wasn't of course. But some people got out of a cab so we grabbed it and got into it and were back at the hotel in a jiffy.
Lauren wrote me I heard back from the driver waiting for you after the dinner cruise and he said he waited for 30 mins and tried to call. Apparently the cruise was late getting back? He tried to call but there was no answer. I just wanted to touch base about that.
I replied: The pickup was scheduled 22:15, when the cruise ended at 19:30. Almost 3 hours after the cruise ended. This was not satisfactory. We did not want to wait 3 hours at the dock for the driver. (The next cruise did not get back until 11:00 pm)
The only number on the sheet to contact was a US number, so I called the number listed and got Vacations to Go. I knew you did not have office hours on Sunday, and so I talked to another person there - a Clifford Muller. He did not know how to contact the driver. There was no other number on the voucher to call. All the other tours had a local French number, but I had with me only the vouchers for the transport to the boat, the dinner cruise, and the transport from the boat.
Lauren said she would contact the supplier. I have not heard anything about it yet.
Posted by greatgrandmaR 15:19 Archived in France Tagged paris dancing statue_of_liberty eiffel_tower seine dinner_cruise speaking_french missing_taxi
I'm glad to see they are keeping up the tradition of dancing on the banks of the Seine. I assume this is at the park "Tino Rossi" in the 5th arrondissement. My younger son took me there in 2007 when he was a student in Paris.
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