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| Page Views: 20 Last Visit to Fort Lauderdale: December, 2008 | Returning from a Cruise by grandmaR - last update: Feb 26, 2009 |
| Window to the outside by the elevators |
Dec 6 -Saturday When I got up, I found that I had forgotten to leave out any clean underpants, and I was having some bathroom issues. I know - TMI We did not get any daily plan sheet from HAL - I thought the dining room would be open (it was), but Bob thought not, so we ate in the Lido. |
Then Bob went out on deck to see what he could see, and so did I. We were bunkering on the ICW side. |
| Freighter and tug in the canal |
We stood out on deck for a little bit taking in the scenery. |
They said that they would announce when the ship cleared and then would not make any more announcements - that we should follow the disembarkation schedule. We had 'Grey 1' tags and a 9:00 time. They did not say whether we could stay in our cabins or not. When I went back to the cabin, I found the stewards had half made it up, but the stewards left and we sat there among our carryon bags. About 8:55 we started for deck 5 - the escalator which has been working only sporadically throughout the trip was running up but not down. Bob had a little cart with the carryon bags so he had to wait for an elevator. Then deck 5 was jammed. |
Eventually we made our way off the ship, but when Bob tried to go down the escalator with the cart, they stopped it altogether and made him come back up and go down in the elevator. Even so, we were getting our luggage by 9:15. Bob had put the unattached handle into the little zipper compartment, and the luggage handlers had apparently tried to pull the handle out, and since it wasn't attached they threw it away. |
| Transporation area from the ship |
We went out to the transportation area, and saw the Auto Rental bus, but were told to stay where we were and not walk to it. I saw a Royal bus and asked if that was for us but the HAL lady said she couldn't see it. I said it was because she was shorter than I was, because I could just barely see it over the wall. She said she didn't think the bus was for us. So I wanted to know if we could get the auto rental bus. The lady tried to take my large bag from me and found it was quite heavy. She said it was too heavy for me, but we did get on the bus. |
The bus driver had never heard of the car rental company that we were using (Royal), but she took us to the correct stop at the car rental place. It was between Avis and Hertz on the third deck. I had seen it when we turned in our Budget car. There were long lines at Hertz and Avis, but none at Royal, so we went right in and got the car. They said they had no economy cars left so they gave us a Dodge, which only gets about 22 mpg We are spending the week in Miami with our daughter |
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