Beautiful pictures!
Almost makes me miss that we're not seeing any clear blue waters like those in the Baltic!
It looks like you saw some fantastic sights!
Nice Pics Andrew you can give me the 411 on travel particulars on the cruise, as I would love to now Who (agent for booking) What (how $$$$$) Where (exactly) When (I know that!
) How (Do you get there)
Also thanx for the 411 on the eye as I do not want to Que for an hour or 2!
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Good Morning All
The SEA at Lindos was crystal clear, and no waves, its a natural harbour, (in fact two), and there are rocks in the middle at the entrance forming a natural breaker.
The sea is very safe, its not deep for a way out, you can walk from one beach to another via the sea. We saw fish, some kind of eel that changed colour, small crustaceans or sea creatures on the sand bed of the water, you could even see where they had left their trail in the sand.
http://www.lindosgardens.gr/
This is the resort, it was a UK Package holiday presume cannot be booked from USA, with my TA's but you can book direct.
Rhodes has one major airport top west coast, Lindos is bottom east coast, and about an hours drive, (slightly more as there are lengthy roadworks), we had a hire car airport to airport all the time, I drove down as i know the way. Taxi is Euros 55 from airport.
One downside is plumbing, whilst everything is a good European standard you cant flush anything down the pan thats not *human made*. So paper in binds, rooms are cleaned daily but its different than Disney or 5 star.
There are five star hotels about 5km outside the town but they are a Euros 5 journey in, on a windy road, unlit, so dangerous, if you want full hotel comforts stay there, but I prefer staying in the town, but accept its not 5 star but thats part of the charm.
Many Eastern Med cruises, Crystal and
RCCL call at Rhodes town, that again is an hour by coach or bus or taxi to Lindos, we counted 16 coaches in at Lindos, one day, -note the coach park is top town and a 10 min walk down a road to main sq, and another 15 to the beach.
London eye (imho ) is Londons No1 tourist attraction. the queues can be very long on sunny days and people head there first thing, you can take a gamble they have all gone later in the day but it is a gamble. It has limited capacity per hour so can beat the main ones:-
Ticket/fee
London Eye
3,500,000 vistors annually
Entrance Fee
More visitors annually than the Pyramids of Giza and Taj MahalHaving attracted over 30 million visitors since it opened in 2000, the London Eye is one of the most iconic landmarks in London's skyline. Astonishingly, it receives more visitors annually than the Pyramids of Giza (3m) and the Taj Mahal in India (2.4m).
The 135m observation wheel now stands alongside some of the world's most famous attractions, and is an icon in its own right.
A new feature for 2009 is the 4D Experience (included within ticket price), which is a pre-flight 4D show of the flight. Located in Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank of the River Thames, the London Eye is now the most paid tourist attraction in London.
Base is free...
TOP UK VISITOR ATTRACTIONS
1. British Museum 5.57m (-6.1%)
2. National Gallery 4.78m (+9%)
3. Tate Modern 4.75m (-2%)
4. Natural History Museum 4.11m (+9.8%)
5. Science Museum 2.79m (+3%)
6. Tower of London 2.39m (+11%)
7. National Maritime Museum 2.37m (+15%)
8. Victoria and Albert Museum 2.27m (+10%)
9. National Portrait Gallery 1.96m (+6.4%)
10. St Paul's Cathedral 1.82m (+8%)
Visitor numbers for April show London’s resilience as a tourist destination
02 June 10
Visit London today announced that visitor numbers to the capital’s attractions fell by just 3.2% compared with the same period in 2009. These results were achieved despite the ongoing recession and the fact that disruption caused by the volcanic ash affected a full week of the trading month.
While some of the bigger attractions did see a dip in attendance, there was good news elsewhere. Almost half (44%) of attractions reported improvements in attendances compared with April 2009, while small attractions*
saw a 9% surge in visitors, and free attractions in the small sector reported a spike of 25%.
Sally Chatterjee, CEO, Visit London said: “Many people had expected these figures to be far worse. It says a lot about the appeal of London that visitor numbers are holding up so well despite all the challenges the capital’s attractions are facing at the moment.”
The first three months of 2010 saw visitor numbers dip by only 1% compared with the same period last year.
All figures come from Visit London’s London Attraction Monitor, a monthly survey of 34 London attractions. During April 2010 a total of 3.52 million people visited these attractions.
The research is based on a sample of 34 attractions: Churchill Museum & Cabinet Rooms, Kew Gardens, London Dungeon, London Eye, Madame Tussauds, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Hampton Court, Wellington Arch, Old Royal Naval College, Museum in Docklands, Florence Nightingale Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery, Museum of Rugby, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, Imperial War Museum, Royal Observatory, Greenwich National Maritime Museum, V&A Museum, V&A Museum of Childhood, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, British Museum, Museum of London, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, RAF Museum, Science Museum, HMS Belfast, Queen’s House, V&A Blythe House, National Army Museum, Geffrye Museum, Museum of Freemasonry
London eye is 5th in London on attendance, (6th in UK), and all the higher London attractions are all FREE, only Blackpool pleasure beach beats on paid attractions in all UK.
We are doing the Eye the same day we arrive too, so there could be a lot of us starting to nod off at dinner at Porters. 
I can always spend the excess pounds on the 2nd cruise or change it to Euros!
