We are from Canada and love to drive down to the states to the port. We had a lovely drive down other then discovering the orange bowl was going on in Miami and no hotel rooms were available. We stayed in Fort Lauderdale in a fairly scary Comfort inn who charged us $200 dollars for a double room. Supply and demand prices.

Once at the port embarkment was fast and efficient. Once on board the ship we proceeded to the buffet area for our first meal by the pool. An announcement at 1pm that all rooms were ready.

That is where the first problems began. The room was not very clean. Every surface in the room was covered in dirt and dust. All the drawers had hairs and grit in them. The coffee maker had a sticky layer on film on the top and the fridge door handle had brown slime all around it. We pushed the coffee table over in front of it as we knew we would not be putting anything in there. Gross. I decided to just make the best of the room and just cleaned all the other surfaces myself. Read more