Punta Del Este, Uruguay February 18

We arrived about 7 am in Punta Del Este and it was a beautiful, warm sunny day.  This is a great resort city with many high rise hotels and condos fronted by beautiful beaches.  The city is clean and safe and a great place to just walk around.  The harbor area has loads of seafood restaurants and just a few blocks away is the main street where there are more restaurants and lots of shops.

High rise condos and hotels along the beach

We used a large local tender to get into the pier

There were quite a few very nice yachts in the harbor

Our ship was anchored quite a ways out from shore.















We have been here before so we did not take any of the organized tours and just took the tender into the town and walked along the waterfront and then on the main street.  It seemed quite warm after being in the cold weather of the past 10 days.  We will be packing up the cold weather clothes in the next few days after sending it out to be laundered or dry cleaned (we still do not have access to the passenger launderettes).

We did see a dive boat come alongside this morning but have not yet heard anything about our propulsion problem.  We did receive a letter this afternoon that they will be doing ship wide sanitizing in Buenos Aires and if you want to remain on board you will be confined to the Horizon lounge for about three hours while this is done.  Luckily we have a tour that day so will not have to deal with that situation.  We hope this takes care of the virus problem and we can go back to normal operations on board.

The captain did make an announcement that it had been determined that there was not a problem with the propulsion system and that we could resume cruising at full speed when necessary.  This really doesn't matter for the trip between Punta Del Este and Montevideo as they are quite close and it would only take a couple of hours.  We left Punta Del Este at midnight and we will have to basically float around until 2 pm tomorrow afternoon when we are scheduled to dock in Montevideo.