July 05, 2021
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For Charlotte Wilkinson, a British expatriate in her early 40s in Singapore, the Covid-19-induced lockdown was beginning to give her claustrophobia. “After nine months on the island we needed to escape,” she says.
For her getaway, she booked a five-night “cruise to nowhere ” aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas for herself, her partner and friends over New Year 2021. Wilkinson runs her own brand consultancy, and has lived in Singapore for a decade; prior to that she lived in Hong Kong and Beijing for six years.
“We’d never really have considered a cruise before, but it definitely helped with the cabin fever. The sense of escape was great,” she says, adding that the happy feeling from her trip lasted for weeks afterwards.