We had booked this Western Caribbean cruise some Fifteen to Eighteen months beforehand in order to join two friends from Canada who were also on this sailing; the itinery was to be Labadee on Haiti, Falmouth on Jamaica and Cozumel Mexico. Falmouth was changed to Costa Maya Mexico due to Falmouth not being ready in time, our journey began on Friday 15th October in Manchester England with flights on Delta airlines to Atlanta and then on to Fort Lauderdale Florida.

Both flights left on time and arrived early which meant we arrived at our hotel the FLL Hilton Marina situated by the side of the S.E 17th street bridge overlooking the port early too.

On Saturday morning we were collected by bus as part of our Fly/Cruise booked with Royal Caribbean through Thomas Cook, all the luggage was taken by truck to the ship so no dragging it on and off the bus. The Bus driver was the Double of Morgan Freeman the American actor who related a little story to us about how a previous Elderly cruiser had asked if he was actually that person? He replied well I am driving Miss Daisy! The trip to the terminal building took around Ten minutes Read more