Live Ruby New Year Cruise
We departed LAX at 10 pm the night before our cruise in the midst of security issues and weather issues and experienced none of them at all! Our Virgin flight was smooth and easy and I was able to catch some zzzs in spite of being a little squished. Got to FLL at 6am, hung out at the port and walked around a little then finally got on the ship at about 11:30am, they were having problems getting people off the ship; it must have been a darn good cruise for them!
This is my first elite cruise but I have not noticed any difference, nothing new in the room, no bathrobes, no bar set-up, no upgraded amenities, and no name tag on my room! I keep asking nicely for my name on the door because of CC people and hopefully it will happen today. The Elite embarkation room at the port did not have any coffee and tea, no water, and no munchies. I was surprised and suppose this might be an economy cut. I was in D734 and I always got excellent wifi reception on my netbook,
I had a rear facing balcony cabin, D 734, which was nice, if small, but the balcony mega size more than made up for the lack of space in the room. There was a suite on one side of the room, and nobody on the inner side of the room making this quite private and nice, especially the balcony! We had tea served there, and entertained there because it is hardly ever windy and the weather was quite agreeable.