So, we get up in the morning because today is the big day. I step out onto the Balcony and of course and luckily the skies are clear and the weather is gorgeous. Originally I had planned on going into town to have a Malorca at La Bombonera but instead decide to go straight to the ship. Its not that I lost interest in visiting this place which I had heard so much about, logistically it just didn’t work (would have required too many taxi rides).
After showering, dressing and lugging our luggage back over to the main building, check out was a breeze. All we had to do was leave since we didn’t order room service or anything. So, I hit the ATM to withdraw the cash I would be using on this cruise and off we went.
We got to the cruise terminal at about 10:30 which meant we ran right into the middle of the mass confusion caused when passengers arriving run into passengers who are leaving. Some people try to avoid the confusion but personally I like it as it adds to my feeling of excitement.
Porters were of course readily available so I grabbed one tipped him (2 bucks per bag) and got in line. There were only a few dozen passengers who arrived at the terminal before we did so the check-in process took less than thirty minutes until we were killing time at the duty free waiting to be boarded. The wait was probably another hour before they allowed us to get onboard the ship so, luckily the duty free was handing out sample bacardi shots so time went past pretty fast. We were on the Lido deck by about 12:30 and our luggage arrived safely to the room about an hour later, smuggled booze and all.
I wore my pool attire over so that I would be ready to enjoy the day without having to worry about when my luggage would arrive and spent the next few hours taking advantage of the empty pools. After that I went back to the room unpacked, organized, explored and enjoyed the ship. I won’t get into the details since the ship board experience is what you make of it but I do want to say I really enjoyed the staff, I experienced great service but I did find the drinks to be a bit on the weak side.
