NCl Dawn 12/08/13 Tampa – Western Carribbean Suite 9500
We flew in a day ahead of boarding, and stayed at the Chase Suites Hotel. Was very clean and had no issues with the hotel at all. The guy who does their shuttle obviously didn’t think we tipped enough, but that had nothing to do with the hotel. Would stay there again. (and we were in one of the rooms that had NOT been updated yet) Free breakfast was good.
We were called several times by NCL and told to not be at the port before 1 pm. We didn’t have an option with the shuttle from the hotel, it was noon or 9 am. (the other times were already booked). We chose noon. We got to the port about 12:30, and the lines had just started to form. There were two lines, and each had about 20 or so lined up already. We got in line. They didn’t open the doors to customs until 1 pm sharp. Once the doors were opened, we got through customs pretty quickly. The line moved constantly.