Premier Parking: We paid $111.42 (about ½ the price of pier parking) for parking at 69 New Hook Road and were on a shuttle to the ship within 5 minutes. You must ignore your GPS (which gets you to a building, which never heard of Premier) and look for their sign. They dropped us off at the terminal after about a 10-minute drive. Coming back was horrible. We called and were told to go to slip #109. The person on the phone told us to look for a Yellow Express, which is what our stub said. It actually was an unmarked white van. We let this load and leave. When it came again, I was about to get on when another passenger squeezed on ahead of me, telling me that this was not Premier. When the driver told me otherwise, my previous informant just smirked. The driver told me that he would let us on first on his next trip but traffic was so horrendous that he did not return for 35 minutes. In total we waited close to two hours to get back to Premier. Premier should have had more than one van and a good strategy would have been for one of us to get on without our luggage and drive back to pick up the other.

Arrival: It took us less than two hours to get from our home in Mainline Philly to the terminal. Check in was slow but not too bad. We had a good lunch in Windjammers and got in our cabin by 1:30 PM. However, we did not get our last piece of luggage until after dinner. Allow ample time to drive to the ship as we met a couple who missed the ship due to traffic and had to pay more than $1,000 to fly to Bermuda to catch the ship.

Breakfast: We ate every day in Windjammers. I stuck with an omelet and smoked salmon while my wife varied her diet. The only complaint I had was that the lemonade and orange juice greatly varied in strength. They should have had a recipe as to how much water to add. Read more