First of all I'd like to start by saying that our cruise was supposed to be a 7-day but due to hurricane Frances it was cut to a 5-day and we left on Monday instead of Saturday. Nonetheless I was very happy to just leave already, although a bit bummed about the short time and loss of a port of call. Traveling with me was my boyfriend and 4 other friends. We are all ranging from 27-31 in ages.

Our itinerary changed as well. Our first stop was on Wednesday in Grand Cayman and Thursday in Cozumel.

MONDAY - EMBARKATION DAY The embarkation was a complete and utter disaster! The agents looked like a bunch of chickens without heads running around and screaming at everyone. I arrived at 12:30pm and stood in line for about 15 minutes then after checking in stood in another quick line to get your S/S card and then you were directed by one of these chickens w/o heads to sit down in a row of chairs until your row was called to stand in line and take a picture and then to proceed to the security check point which only had ONE - yes - ONE X-Ray machine with about 7 different TSA people standing around it (???). I really felt that the whole process needed a little more organization to it. I also forgot to mention that while I was standing in line the lights went out and the AC turned off for about 10 minutes and the room just got completely HEATED! Everyone was sweating buckets! Anyway, back to embarkation....Once we got through all of this we walked up the ramps and finally crossed the threshold of the beauty that is the Triumph, where our pictures were taken with our S/S card and we were finally inside! All in all this took about 1 hour from first arriving to walking through the door of our cabin. Read more