I am pleased to write this a couple of weeks after returning from three and a half weeks away, the first part of which was our very first transatlantic cruise. We chose the Celebrity Eclipse, fantastic it was too. This was our first Princess cruise and although it transpired not to be quite the same standard as Celebrity we had a really nice week in the Southern Caribbean

On arrival at Ft Lauderdale we disembarked Celebrity and took a taxi around the docks to the terminal the Crown Princess was docked at - embarkation was a bit of a zoo but we were obviously early so on reasonably quickly after a seated wait in the terminal building, we were quite early having only to travel around the port and we were on board by about 12.30, no welcome drink so that is the first minus for Princess. We headed to our cabin as we had been told that they were ready, sadly not and the cabin steward was actually working on it as we arrived. We dropped the hand luggage and told him to finish and went off to explore and find the various cafes and restaurants etc.

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