February has the least amount of rain in the Caribbean, and the one leaving early February had very few children onboard. The one AFTER that, leaving 2/18 was due to have 300 onboard! Must remember that for the future!

We are lucky enough to live only an hour and a half from the port. Sunday traffic is light, and we got into the port area at 11 AM despite inaccurate GPS directions that tell you to turn left into a cement median. I'd advise you to not get to the port any earlier because some people on the ship are still leaving, and the people who are picking them up will be in the same line as you are to get on, and you'll be waiting either way. We spent 45 minutes in the car before unloading. From there it was fast. If you park at the port, be prepared to spend $19 a day. This amount of money is ridiculous! The port area is nothing but a run down eye sore with boarded up empty buildings surrounded by marshland. This parking lot is hardly taking up prime real estate property. So for $228, our car was parked at the Bayonne dump.

----- (At the end of the cruise, if you use the Express Disembarkation, you'll have to carry all your own bags down onto the same bus you took to get there. The bags have to sit with you on the bus which is a little crazy because the bus ride is literally 500 feet to the Immigration area. All that heavy lifting of bags onto a bus is kind of crazy when it would be easier for people to just walk down to Immigration.) Read more