The Never-Ending Cruise, The Never-Ending Review Inspiration 08/29/2004

The Players Myself: 30 years old, never cruised before Barbara, my wife: Celebrated the second anniversary of her 29th birthday on 8/30. Janet, Barb's mom, 50ish Lenny, Barb's dad, 50ish Barbara, Janet and Lenny have all cruised before in the late 80's. This was my first cruise.

Embarkation The embarkation process went fairly smoothly. After making a few wrong turns in Tampa getting to the port, we arrived at the curbside luggage check around 12pm. After tipping the porter $1 for each bag (which he was very gracious in accepting - no intimidation here), we quickly made our way inside the terminal to be guided by security to the check-in line. One curious note: Everyone seemingly was directed to the same line, whether they had used the Fun-Pass on line or not. The line moved fairly quickly, and there were personnel at every station at the counter busily getting everyone's documents in order. By 12:45 - 1:00 we were getting our embarkation photos taken and onboard the ship minutes later. Read more