Okay folks I am back from cruise and I must say that Royal Caribbean is the way to go. My group of girls and I traveled on a seven day cruise leaving from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The itinerary included St. Thomas, St. Maartin, Antigua, St. Lucia, and Barbados (Home Sweet Home).Here is the review of the cruise and pictures will be included.Day 1: Arrival @ San Juan
My group included My two co-workers Sonia and Jeanette who are expert cruisers and my Auntie Jean, from Thunder Bay, who is a novice cruiser. We booked our flights in late January and got a real good deal with Continental Airlines leaving from Newark,NJ. The flight was a 767 aircraft with thre classes- first, business, & coach. The seats were roomy and we had on demand movie service going and coming. Plus the best thing of all ... they fed us REAL food.
Now I forgot to mention about my aunt; she has a slight mobility problem so I brought along with me a wheelchair in order to get her around easier. I checked it in with regular luggage and found out you don't have to pay for accessibility items. When I reached there the wheelchair was in the over-sized luggage area.
San Juan's airport was very organized and clean. I had the intentions to meet my aunt in the other terminal since she was coming from an Air Canada but they rolled her over to our terminal. With all of our luggage combined we had to take turns moving the luggage to the taxi stand area. We able to get a van and the total trip for all of us to the port was $26. Once we got to the pier we had to go through the check-in process which was made easier since we had my aunt traveling in the wheelchair. The lines for that were short almost non-existent . They take your luggage in the beginning where it will be dropped off later in your ro
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around 2pm.As soon as we got on the boat we ate lunch in the Windjammer Cafe which like most cruise lines offers a variety of food in. When we first entered the cafe we saw these beautifully carved watermelons . Jeanette got carried away and took a lot of pictures of them. Here is just a few of them. Even on Easter they had carved Easter Bunnies.
For the rest of the afternoon we got settled in and took a nap and got ready for the muster drill and then dinner. The muster drill is a mandatory safety drill that we all loathe so much to do but it is for our safety.
We posed for ours and luckily because of Auntie Jean we were able to leave it earlier and beat the traffic. We met our waiter staff and our maitre'd and had a wonderful dinner. Because we were up so early, we called it an early night.
Our First Dinner Picture
