Carnival Triumph Review
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Triumph Review, May 10 - May 17 leaving out of Miami:
Travel day & Embarkation: We traveled from Memphis to Fort Lauderdale on the day of our cruise. We had an early flight of 6:00 am which put us into FLL at 10:50 plenty of time to make it to the Port of Miami. Once we had arrived and rounded up our luggage we waited for Sun and Moon Express to pick us up and take us to the Cruise Terminal. After a short 45 min ride we arrived at the terminal. At almost 12:00 now I would have thought that most of the previous passengers would have been gone by now but apparently there was an issue with the debarkation. While feeling bad for the previous passengers little did I know of the huge crowd that was inside the terminal; waiting to get on the ship. We gave our bags to the porter and headed into the terminal. Once through security we headed upstairs and found what appeared to be controlled chaos. All the seats were taken and the floor was filling up. Even inside the VIP area there was no where to sit. After about a 45 minute wait we were finally allowed to board the ship to start our cruise.
Once a aboard we did our normal activities of getting some excursions taken care of, checking our seating arrangements at dinner, eating lunch and grabbing our first Carnival drink of the day. While I was having lunch and having a drink I recognized a waiter on the deck from a previous cruise I had been on. Mate is his name and he recognized me as well and we struck up a friendly conversation of how things had been since we had last seen each other. It was good to see Mate and it was now time to start getting ready for the Muster Drill. Muster drill was called and away we went to our muster station. Now during our muster drill the ship started to pull away from the port, this really is something I look forward to and hate it when the ship pulls out during the muster drill. By the time I had gotten back up on deck we had already sailed half way down the channel and missed half the fun. We made the best of it and went on to explore the ship. Since we had been several Conquest Class ship and one other Destiny Class ship we pretty much knew our way around. We had now started our Cruise and it was time to start relaxing.