Husband and I, both in mid-fifties, Diamond Plus members, saw this come up at a great price and booked a couple of weeks prior to sailing. It was a three night cruise to Nassau and Coco Cay to come back to a 7 day cycle as it returned from the UK.

We received an e-mail stating that due to the ship's transatlantic crossing, the coast guard would be conducting inspections and to not expect boarding to begin until 1pm. Since the message was received 2 days from sailing, we already had our flight tickets. We flew in Wednesday morning to FLL and was at the terminal by 11am. It appeared that most of the departing guests were gone but we were not able to board until after 1pm.

The terminal has designated waiting areas for suite guests, DP members, D members, etc. The order to embarkation is Suite, DP, D etc down the line. Once the suite guests were in line, there was a free for all. The mad rush of DP was rather amusing. It makes me laugh to think that there are really DP members that think they own the ship. People, such as ourselves who had waited for several hours, was suddenly behind a group of DP members that had waited by the stairs and rushed forward to load. This just leads up to the trampling that I will be explain later. Read more