Wow! What a week to remember. Our cruise was the week of March 10th, 2013. I will break this review down by category so it is easier to navigate.

[PRE CRUISE HOTEL]

We stayed at the Quality Inn Gretna. They have a deal of $140 for a hotel room for a night, buffet breakfast, a shuttle to and from the port, and a parking spot for your car for the week. It ended up being right about $166. The room was not the greatest, but not bad. I guess you get what you pay for. We checked in at 8 PM and there was a line of about 8 families. With only 1 person behind the counter, we waited about 22 minutes in line to check in. Our room smelled like chlorine (and the pool was still closed for winter!). Other than that, no issues. The breakfast consisted of Cheerios, Fruit Loops, yogurt, hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, grits, sausage gravy, bacon, muffins, biscuits, orange and apple juice, milk and coffee. Noting too exciting. All the food was pretty bland/average. Parking was a regular parking lot. Their shuttle leaves every hour, on the hour, starting at 9 AM, and the bus seats probably 30 people. It was about a 20 minute drive/wait in the shuttle (most of that 20 minutes was waiting to get up to the drop off point). After the cruise, we waited about 30 minutes for a return shuttle. Overall, decent hotel and shuttle services and would CONSIDER using them again. Read more