Our trip on the QM2, December 2- 9, 2006

With much anticipation we left Savannah Georgia December 1 and drove to Fort Lauderdale to stay at the Marriott Harbor Beach a great place, on the beach, rooms great. Could not wait till the morning when we would repack our bags and head to the port. When we arrived at the port we found many ships, lots of passengers, appeared to be much confusion. We finally found our berth, the port handlers took our luggage and then we waited, we waited, we waitedseemed like for ever. Having had two heart attacks recently, standing in a line for 1 to 2 hours was not going to work for me. I finally found a bench outside and sat. No information given as to why the long line or the long wait no communication!!

Finally we noticed the line had started to move and we headed to the door, with it seemed like thousands of other passengers, some quite angry and frustrated. We could not get a clear answer as to why the delay but it only took us a moment to see that none of the computers were working. One poor boat official was working on computers, no luck, would move to the other computer, again no luck. I will say he had a nice smile as he stood over the computers trying to get them to work. No one could tell us what was happening or when it would improve. Finally someone said the computers had blown in the early morning when the immigration folks told them to shut the computers down, for what reason I do not know. It appeared that with the computers blown, the replacement parts were either too few or non existent. Read more