Rhapsody of the Seas Review

5 Day North Asia March 2008

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Sail Date: Mar 2008
Cabin: Royal Family Suite

We arrived outside the Marco Polo hotel in Hong Kong in plenty of time. This was the muster point. There were about six staff there with RCCI t-shirts, but when we asked for instructions, we were interrupted by the 'supervisor', a young lady in her late 20's who rather impolitely told us to wait, and 'not to go into the hotel'.

After a while we saw the supervisor give a briefing to staff and they were positioned with arrow signs pointing to the back of the hotel. Unfortunately, due to bad positioning, passengers were being sent all over the place. Lots of people remonstrating with the supervisor who was getting impatient with both passengers and her underlings. Anyway not a good start.

Eventually we were herded onto coaches and bussed to the ship which was docked in a container port some 40 minutes away. Again, lots of lining up. We tried to join a shorter line, but were told that this was for passengers who had not checked in online. On the way through passport control, the rather over zealous Filipino security supervisor was separating people according to whether they looked Chinese or not. No one told him that it was in fact possible to be a Hong Kong resident and not be Chinese. Hence a lot of people were sent to the wrong line - and got rather upset with the racial profiling.

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Royal Family Suite

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