Off on my first cruise. M and I are taking the Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Sea’s to the Western Caribbean for 5 nights. With the exception of rediculous traffic that was a close call to getting to the plane on time we had an uneventful flight.
The port was 15 minutes away from the FT. Lauderdale airport so it was a quick trip to the ship. I was getting over a cold so they required that i be looked at by a nurse before we got on the boat. I was fine so i breezed through that.
Right when we got on the boat we got our cards we could use to charge anything with. What was cool was they took our photo so they can verify it is us anytime durring the trip. I thought that was neat. We got there a bit early before our room was ready so we headed to the windjammer for lunch. The view was spectacular even though we were sitting in port. The buffet was really nice also.
We brought our bags with us instead of checking them so once 1PM rolled around we were able to head down to our room. We wanted cabin with an outside view but didn’t want to go crazy on cost so we ended up with a cabin on deck 2 with just a porthole. It was ok. I think we both imagined much worse.
Once we were settled in to the cabin we had several hours before ship left port. We both wanted to schedule appointments at the spa so we went up to check it out.
It had been raining on and off all day in South Florida but when the doors opened on the elevator and we walked out onto the deck for the first time is a sight i wont quickly forget. It was spectacular. Just the open deck looking out on the water. Even with the bad weather it was still a sight to see. We did a quick tour of the spa and each scheduled some appointments. M actually went right away and did something. We just relaxed the rest of the day and had a great dinner meeting our table mates for the first time.