Sunday, March 12
We didn't get the best night's sleep due to some noise from some young guys on Spring break, a change in direction of the planes taking off from the nearby airport which meant they were coming directly over us, and the winding forward of the clocks! There was also some excitement at boarding the Koningsdam today and catching up with our American friends.
The shuttle we booked for 10:45 arrived at 11:15, and after the short drive to the Port Everglades Cruise terminal we then had to negotiate our way around this massive terminal - the Koningsdam was berthed at pier 26, and there were about 8 big cruise liners in port today! After the formalities and check in procedure we finally reached our room around 12:30.
We set off to explore this new ship and got as far as the Dining room so we detoured there for lunch. On returning to our room our luggage still hadn't arrived, so we walked up to the Lido deck and had a look around before the Safety drill started. The new procedure involved being directed to your cabin to watch the safety video, and at the appropriate alarm we were instructed to go to our muster station. These are now set up inside the ship, so no more standing on the Promenade deck near your life boat in the sun or rain or cold! We thought this was a better procedure and seemed to go smoothly.
As our luggage still hadn't arrived we went to the sail away party and caught up with Bill & Linda - it was great seeing them again. We are on the early dinner sitting so after our drinks we all went to dinner and caught up with Burgess & Pat, Ken & Jackie, and a new couple Kim & Margie (friends of Bill & Lindas). Our table of 10 had a lot of fun and plenty of catching up to do!
After dinner we took in the show - a comedian who was very funny, and then checked out the band at the B B Kings Blues Club who were excellent. Then it was time to go and unpack so we could get into bed!
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We didn't get the best night's sleep due to some noise from some young guys on Spring break, a change in direction of the planes taking off from the nearby airport which meant they were coming directly over us, and the winding forward of the clocks! There was also some excitement at boarding the Koningsdam today and catching up with our American friends.
The shuttle we booked for 10:45 arrived at 11:15, and after the short drive to the Port Everglades Cruise terminal we then had to negotiate our way around this massive terminal - the Koningsdam was berthed at pier 26, and there were about 8 big cruise liners in port today! After the formalities and check in procedure we finally reached our room around 12:30.
We set off to explore this new ship and got as far as the Dining room so we detoured there for lunch. On returning to our room our luggage still hadn't arrived, so we walked up to the Lido deck and had a look around before the Safety drill started. The new procedure involved being directed to your cabin to watch the safety video, and at the appropriate alarm we were instructed to go to our muster station. These are now set up inside the ship, so no more standing on the Promenade deck near your life boat in the sun or rain or cold! We thought this was a better procedure and seemed to go smoothly.
As our luggage still hadn't arrived we went to the sail away party and caught up with Bill & Linda - it was great seeing them again. We are on the early dinner sitting so after our drinks we all went to dinner and caught up with Burgess & Pat, Ken & Jackie, and a new couple Kim & Margie (friends of Bill & Lindas). Our table of 10 had a lot of fun and plenty of catching up to do!
After dinner we took in the show - a comedian who was very funny, and then checked out the band at the B B Kings Blues Club who were excellent. Then it was time to go and unpack so we could get into bed!
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