We arrived a day early and spent the night at the Harbor House Hotel. It was our second stay there and would recommend it to everyone, large, nice rooms and a very pleasant and helpful staff. It is so nice to see the ships come and go from your room window and being so close to everything makes it especially nice.

On the day of departure, we drove to the pier, dropped off the wife and the luggage and drove back to the Harbor House to park. Then I walked back to the terminal where we waited for around 30 minutes before they allowed us to start boarding, which I must say was the quickest and best we have ever encountered. They even served us lemonaide or water while we waited. After boarding the ship, we went to our room to drop off our carry-on luggage when there was a knock on the door, our luggage was there and it was only 12:10. Another first...way to go RCI.

After that we went to the Windjammer and met with some fellow CC members for lunch. I don't understand why we have heard so many people complain about the food while on board. We found everything good, well presented and warm. The only complaint we have on the food is that there was no lobster night. Ooops, we didn't try the dreaded Ranch Steak but heard it was not too good from those who did try it. I don't know why RCI doesn't remove that from the menu, heck, they could replace it with anything. Read more