Background we are married and in our mid 40s. We live in Southeast Michigan. We have been on 10 cruises on NCL, 2 on Celebrity and 2 on Carnival. We booked this cruise as a last minute getaway 14 days prior to departure. We used the cruise web site to book the trip.

Getting to Boston due to a bad flight experience going into New Orleans in January my husband prefers not to fly. This means we have started to drive everywhere. Boston is exactly a 12 hour drive from Detroit so we left at 5:00 Am on Friday morning and were in Boston by 5:00 PM that night. We hit bad traffic on the Mass Pike into Boston at rush hour (of course) but we should have planned better. We stayed at the Westin in South Boston (Westin Waterfront) which is by the conference center but absolutely nothing else. I paid $150.00 on Price Line and the hotel web site listed rooms for $269 for that night on their web site. The Westin is very nice and the staff was very helpful. We ended up eating in the hotel pub that night which was fine but pricey.

Saturday Morning we have departed from Boston on a Bermuda cruise so we knew where the pier was, etc. We parked in the temporary drop off location, dropped off our luggage and went to lunch at Yankee Lobster. After lunch we parked in the cruise terminal parking garage and walked over to the terminal. A pleasant surprise to find out it is $16.00/day to park in the cruise terminal (in Detroit you pay $25.00/day at the airport). Read more