We are onboard. Our trip to Fort Lauderdale went smoothly; no glitches at all, but I still hate the air travel part of any trip. We stayed at the Ramada Inn Airport Cruiseport which is a typical 1960’s style motel. It has a restaurant, airport and cruise port shuttles and offered a complimentary breakfast. There is nothing luxury about it, but it was clean so it worked just fine.
I can’t say much about the weather in Ft. Lauderdale except that Denver was probably same temperature. It wasn’t very Florida-like to need jackets. It really didn’t matter as we had dinner as soon as we got to the hotel and then just relaxed a bit and then were ready for bed.
We took the shuttle to the port at 11:45 only to find that Prinsendam had arrived late from dry dock and boarding would be delayed. At about 3:00 we finally boarded the ship. I have to admit we have been awfully spoiled by having suites in the past as today we waited in line for about an hour before we finally reached the check-in desks.
Our cabin, is actually pretty nice for an outside (window) cabin. There is a fair sized seating area with a loveseat and chair. The small walk-in closet looks like it will have plenty of storage and there is a full size bathtub in the bathroom! The crew is working double time trying to get everything ready for passengers since she has been empty for a while. Our cabin is only about half ready. The bed is made and we have towels, but no other amenities like soap. It’s now 5:00 and our steward just delivered our ’gift cards’ and shore excursion tickets.
Thank you to Richard and Alice for the Pinnacle and to someone else also for the Pinnacle…. There is no name on that card, but I think I know who sent it. We wish you were here with us!
Our first piece of luggage just arrived and I need to start doing my Ensemble Host duties. So I’ll write more later.
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Our luggage arrived all at the same time so we were able to pretty much unpack before dinner. Since we had not eaten since breakfast at the hotel we were ready and it was very good; prime rib seemed to be the popular choice at our table. After dinner I got the cabin numbers for those that were missing from my list and then asked the purser’s desk to deliver the Welcome letters. At 9:00 we went up to the Crows Nest to listen to the Piano man and have a quick nightcap then it was off to bed. Thursday we will be in Key West.
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