day of travel was march 26th, cruise didn't leave until 3/28. all i can say is travel a day ahead of time as you will see an example of why you should in this review! our flight was to leave at 8:34pm from seattle, and as we boarded our us airways flight on time it started to SNOW! pilot came on and said they were looking for the de-icing fluid but had trouble locating it! all i said was "it doesn't snow in seattle in march! let alone most of the winter. well our flight was delayed and we missed our connecting flight in vegas so us ar put us up in a hotel and gave us meal vouchers. we had to catch a 8:00am flight to phoenix, so we got about 3 hours of sleep.

flight to phoenix left on time, once in phoenix we had a 3 hour wait. about 40 minutes before it was to leave we find out that that flight was delayed because someone had "passed away" and they had to land. all i could say to the wife is "do we want to get on this plane?!" by the time we landed in fort lauderdale it was 10:20pm (original time was 7:20am!)

we rented a mini van and drove to hotel. Read more