Just returned from our Navigator RCI cruise out of Galveston. Used Cruise Critic extensively so we were not surprised about many of the things that happened.

Arrived about 11am with moderate traffic until hitting the port area. Some brilliant person with about a third grade education decided to funnel the cars droppings off luggage for both ships to one choke point before separating the two lines. We therefore had to pass well by the Navigator and the Carnival ship before being able to take a left where they then divided the traffic to each ship. Utterly stupid. I recommend that you take the road to the north or right of the port road and go up well past 25th street and come in the other way. Far less traffic and a much faster ingress to the baggage area.

Once through the drop off line, it was not bad in the terminal itself and we saved some time since we were Crown and Anchor Platinum members and junior suite guests as well. Everything else went pretty smoothly and we were able to get our bags in a fairly timely fashion. Staterooms were ready at about 1:30 pm. Read more