A Day off to Malaga or Gibraltar?

One of my days off this week is Thursday and as I am currently spending a a few more weeks at my house in Spain before returning back to London, so I thought it would be good to make some use of my time off instead of just lazing round the pool or stuck up at the bar enjoying tapa with a tinto verano (a hard life I know) and go to either Malaga or Gibraltar. Now thinking about it Malaga has some fantastic tapa bars and very reasonable in price, so two birds, one stone.. you know the saying.

Anyway, Thursday particularly, as this is the day that the largest passenger ocean liner in the world, the Oasis of the Seas, will be docking into Malaga on her way to Barcelona.

Now, I am hoping I may get an opportunity to actually board the ship for a few hours so that I can report back and let you all know what she is like. However, I have got to wait to see if this is possible and because it is short notice may not happen. If it isn’t a possibility, I may well still pop to Malaga just to see the full scale of this beast of a lady in port, especially as the only other ship in port will be the Oceania Marina. Now that will be a sight to see.

Alternatively, I may go to Gibraltar, some family friends are staying there for a few days and it is also an opportunity to pop there to say hello and grab some shopping at Morrisons supermarket, some cheap duty free and have a nose at the port.  Unfortunately, I will have just missed the Celebrity Eclipse by 1 day and will be a day to early to see MSC Splendida.

I am such a cruise geek.

But I might have a nose at the new Sunborn Yacht hotel based in Gibraltar at Ocean Village which has just opened. This is a new luxury hotel concept with two yachts currently based in Gibraltar and London. Others are being built to be placed in Europe, USA, South-East Asia, the Middle East and Russia.

So watch this space, as there could be pictures of me standing in Central Park on the Oasis of the Seas or with my Morrisons shopping bag at the empty port in Gibraltar!

Dawn

x