This was a 13 night Transatlantic Cruise from San Juan to Barcelona.

I'll start off by saying this cruise was fantastic - the weather was gorgeous, the seas were freakily calm - we met some good people and had an excellent time overall. There was a fly in the ointment in that our luggage was lost for almost 10 days - which didn't spoil the cruise altogether, but obviously could have enhanced our experience even more.

The luggage situation: We flew British Airways, Heathrow to San Juan via Miami. When checking in at London Heathrow, we specifically asked if we would need to collect our luggage in Miami and re-check it for the San Juan, American Airlines part of the flight. We were told no, we didn't need to do anything, and the check in girl put special large orange tags on all our luggage to say the passengers (we) would not be collecting in Miami and it would go straight through to San Juan! I asked her we would know it had been transferred and she said to check at the boarding gate in Miami - we did as instructed but the person at the boarding gate said there was no way she could tell if our luggage had been transferred to that flight! Well, it never did get past Miami. When we arrived in San Juan and realised it wasn't coming through, we made a report and were told not to worry, there were several more flights coming in and we should get our luggage before the ship sailed. Well by Sunday morning we had to make a decision - if the luggage didn't arrive, we would be at sea for a week - the next land was La Palma, Canary Islands - we needed to buy essentials just in case. We had very little in our hand luggage - one change of clothes each and a small amount of toiletries. So off we went into Old Town San Juan and bought some basics - but nothing you could possibly consider formal clothing so we knew we would be doing the buffet for formal nights! Long story short, the luggage never arrived and we sailed without it. Read more