At shortly after 0800 there was ship wide announcement regarding the immigration procedures to be adopted. The idea is that all those leaving on ship arranged tours would pass through right away and the rest of the guests who were not planning to go ashore and visit San Juan would wait on board and they would call out the guests based upon deck number, yes easy .
We are on deck 7 and the cabins start on the 5th Deck and going up the the large suites on the 10th Deck. So thinking that as we are on deck 7 we would have time to start breakfast as surely they would start at the top or bottom of the ship and so we sat down and was part way through when they announced that all island tourists have left and now it was deck by deck starting with DECK 7, what how did that happen??. We are of the opinion that as the ship only has 396 guests on board compared to the capability of 598 that they must have guest’s around rather than having many part used decks .
Anyway down the gangplank we went and too our turn lining up to tee the Immigration lady who asked all the usual questions about how long we are staying and where and when are we returning to the UK. Noel had all the paperwork confirming house rental and flight bookings etc but they did not want to see it. From there we went to another part of this large warehouse building we those who wanted to go ashore for the day could leave whilst us stay on boarder’s would site and wait until everybody on the ship had been seen by immigration and only then could we return to our cabin at around 10 am.
After a couple of things to do in the cabin we went up to the pool deck and found a couple of comfortable chairs out of the sun and listed to music (Noel) and Jennifer back on the cross stitching. For lunch we went back the buffet in La Terraza and had a light meal and then spent a short time in the Cafe Arts which is also having an open deck area and so we went there for a while but then Jennifer wanted a rest and so we returned to the cabin.
I was aware that Chelsea were playing Lille tonight but though that the chances of watching this on the ship would be nil, but I was wrong as one of the channels when flicking though suddenly came up with the game, wow great that's my afternoon taken car of and they won 2 nil.
In the evening for dinner we went back to the Italian and Noel had the Veal chop really great and Jennifer prawns with something… with a few glasses of plonk and then went to the Panorama lounge to listen to the trio, who were very good but at 10.30 ish we snuck away and returned to the cabin as the early morning and late nights don't sit well with us. Well its two full days at sea for the 23 and 24th Feb and we arrive in Fort Lauderdale the morning of the 25th,
