I could not really think of a "better" title but since the last review I wrote was about as low and negative as you could get this is almost the exact opposite.

The first thing that's worth pointing out if you go out of Red Hook - Be prepared! I live in Central NJ and was dropped off but even trying to get to the door is tough. The porters direct a certain number of cars kind of like when you drop a rental off and then it's a mad scramble to figure out which door to go in. Anyway, this terminal is unlike any other I've been to and rather than being well organized you either go right to get in the line on the right or go left to get in the line on the left. It was my day to pick the wrong one because people who went right strolled onto the ship a good 10 minutes before I finally got up to the counter. Since the terminal is one gigantic room, one problem is the people who are supposed to notice the reps waving their gigantic signs must have bad eyesight. In my line the people who had priority were allowed to go to the counter even if the person waving the sign had tried to get someone in our lines attention. The good thing is that I knew the ship was not going to leave without me and I was able to stand in that line for almost an hour, but there were a number of people who really were struggling.

In hindsight this was good practice for the worlds longest conga line AKA - The line that never ends when everybody gets in line to visit customs in the vista lounge but I should not digress into that lovely ditty yet. When I got to the counter I had the "are you sick" form but not the Canadian one. I never saw one and never saw anyone handing them out but luckily she handed me one so I filled it in quickly and a minute later I was finally able to board the ship. Since I wasn't "elite" they made me walk all the way down a hall which was silly because there was nobody in front of me at THAT door and when I came back from the end of the hall I wound up right AT that door again on the other side but I guess rules are rules. Read more