This was supposed to be a Western Caribbean itinerary, but Hurricane Emily changed it into an Eastern Caribbean itinerary (San Juan, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, and Bahamas).
Embarkation We arrived at the Port of Miami and entered the terminal. The embarkation process was botched up. You enter through a set of doors, have your Id's and papers checked, then on to security and screening, then on to the point where the cruise line is CROSS-FEEDING arriving passengers with checked in passengers and thus delaying the process. I know that they have to embark a lot of people, but you do not run your checked in passengers through the line of your arriving passengers and thus create a bottleneck in the process. We walked up to the line, had to wait for several minutes as they let checked in passengers cross in front of us to get their boarding pass pictures taken, then they let some of us through and then stopped to let more checked in passengers across, et cetera. We walked to the other end of the terminal and entered our check in line, (we were told that the itinerary had been changed at this point) we checked in and then had to walk all the way back to the other end of the terminal to enter the cross-feeding line game again. Then we took our boarding photos, and had to walk all the way to the other end of the terminal again to go up the escalator and then enter the boarding line and walk all the way across the terminal once again.
Then the two photographers have people going everywhere while they are trying to get the boarding photo done. People are walking in front of the photographers and delaying the process even more.