This voyage exceeded our expectations. While not perfect in every respect, nothing in this world is. There were so many positive notes that we will surely be back.
Getting There and Back. Finding Red Hook terminal took a bit of work as the driver of the black car we took from Manhattan did not know where the cruise terminal was. He read the instructions provided with the cruise documents and it was pretty straight forward from there. We purchased Cunard's transfer services to Newark airport.
Embarkation. We arrived in Red Hook at about noon and were caught in a long, very slow moving lineup of cars (two lanes crawling towards the actual terminal entrance). It was raining hard and it was a good 20 minutes till we were close enough to get out of the car and walk the rest of the way. We noticed (too late for us) that a couple of yellow cabs had taken a shortcut and dropped off their passengers at the same spot we got off avoiding the lineup. They had obviously been there before.