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Pride of Aloha - Hawaii

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weppcat
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jul 2004
Cabin: Mid-Ship Balcony
Traveled with children

We sailed July 18, 2004 on Pride of Aloha. This was the eighth cruise for us, having previously cruised Royal Caribbean, Princess and Carnival.

Check in: we arrived at 12:30 PM (check in started at 12) and waited in line about an hour before being processed. There was an additional wait of about 15 minutes as everyone was in line for photographs which was not apparent until the last 5 minutes as we rounded the corner and saw what the hold-up was. We would have bypassed this had we known. Our room was ready (BB category balcony) with the door propped open when we got there. A champagne bucket (stand) with ice but no champagne) was in the room. Our kid's room (also BB balcony) had the bucket, ice , AND champagne. We never did figure out if ours was swiped from the door being open. We asked and no one had any idea. Our luggage arrived within 2 hours of our check in.

So did our shore excursion tickets. There were several errors on these ( I had booked them online prior to the cruise and fortunately had my printed receipts). So we went down to the shore excursion desk and waited 2 whole hours in line to rectify the errors. Just as it was our turn after this 2 hour wait, an employee brought three cruisers to the front of the line who apparently decided they didn't want to spend their time waiting in line like we had (the line was still very very long), to the front of the line. I pulled him aside and protested that we had been waiting patiently for 2 hours and did not appreciate this line intrusion. He told me that these ladies had booked online and they had errors! I told him that I, too, had booked online and had waited for 2 hours like everyone else and didn't appreciate how this was being handled. He apologized profusely but the 3 ladies were still allowed to be helped first. By the time we did get help, we could not arrange it so we could get some of the excursions we had originally booked because by then, they were already unavailable.

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