The night before boarding is the night that determines the quality of your first day on the water. The member who flew overnight from Singapore, landed in Bodrum at six in the morning, transferred directly to the marina, and boarded at ten is the member who is managing the jet lag and the travel fatigue and the motion of the boat and the social adjustment of the twelve new people simultaneously, with no sleep buffer between the flight and the offshore life.
The member who flew the day before, stayed in the recommended hotel near the marina, slept eight hours, had the breakfast at the hotel, walked to the marina at nine, and boarded at ten is the member who arrives rested.
The Naora pre-boarding package recommends the specific hotel for each boarding port, not the most expensive option and not the cheapest, but the option that provides the correct combination of the proximity to the marina, the quality of the sleep, and the specific features that the offshore member needs the night before departure: the laundry service for the final clothing wash before the leg, the secure luggage storage if the check-in time does not align with the arrival, the breakfast that sends you to the boat with the energy the first day requires.
The Acclimatisation Night
For the member arriving from a significantly different time zone, the North American member flying to Bodrum, the Australian member flying to Las Palmas, the Asian member flying to any Atlantic boarding port, the night before boarding is the acclimatisation night that the body needs and that the offshore experience deserves.
The first day on the Eighty2 is the day the offshore life begins: the first passage, the first anchorage, the first dinner with the eleven people you have just met. The person who experiences this day rested experiences it in a different quality from the person who experiences it depleted. The hotel night costs what it costs. It is the best investment in the quality of the first day available at any price.
In the Mediterranean boarding ports: Bodrum at the start of the circumnavigation, the various Aegean and Dodecanese ports as the route progresses ; the recommended hotels are the harbourside properties that provide the specific quality of the first encounter with the Mediterranean sailing world before the boat. The evening walk along the waterfront, the dinner at the harbour restaurant, the morning coffee at the dock café with the boats moving in the harbour: these are the acclimatisation that the Mediterranean provides to the member who arrives the evening before and uses the time it offers. The Naora team provides the specific recommendation.
The booking is the member’s choice and the member’s expenditure.
