September 9th, 2007 HAL Veendam cruise from New York City to Montreal, Canada.

Being nervous about missing the ship from some horror stories I had heard about NYC, we opted to fly in a day early and stay at the hotel provided by HAL so as to have all the transfers from the airport to the hotel and then to the ship. Plus, I had a friend I needed to discuss some things with and we were able to do that over dinner on September 8th.

Our flight from Central Kentucky to Reagan National in Washington and then on to JFK went without any problems. We arrived a few minutes early into JFK and proceeded to the baggage claim area. Our luggage was almost there on the retrieval carousel when we got there. Everything we checked had made it OK. Read more