piginmud
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2002
The day we left the ship we were pretty darn low. The one excellent thing about getting off the ship is that your luggage is right there at the port terminal waiting for u. U just go to the color-coded area and pick up your luggage. Walk through customs and then u are out of the terminal. They have the major airlines right there. We had to walk maybe 50 feet with our luggage (which was extremely heavy since I over-packed, what else is new) to get to the Continental check in. This was great, I cant rave enough about it. We actually checked in right there and she gave us our boarding passes. I was actually on a 4:30pm flight (I dont know why when I booked the flight that I thought this was perfect). Anyway I had asked the lady if it was possible to get an earlier flight without getting charged. She said yes, u could do a stand-by. The next thing I knew she had us booked on a 1:30pm flight (no charge, no stand-by, an actually booking) and smiled and sent us off on our merry way.
We hung out at the Orlando airport from about 10am or so until 1pm when we had to get to the flight. The Orlando airport is excellent. There are tons of shops to browse around in, a little game room and a fountain in the Hyatt hotel lobby (connected to the airport terminal) that was really nice to sit by and watch the kids play around the fountain and flirt with the idea of getting soaking wet. Before u knew it, 3 hours had gone by and we were rushing to get to the gate to get on our flight. The only thing I am disappointed in was the fact that I didnt have the opportunity to volunteer to get off the flight for a free airfare someplace else. I was kind of hoping/counting on doing that so that I could have a free flight somewhere else in the future. But hey, it beats sitting at the airport from 10am until 4:30pm!
We did sooooo many things in that week. I know I didnt list all of them, but there was just tons of stuff to do. From the bingo, the shows, the line dancing, the pool, the formal pictures, the character appearances, walking around in Shutters the photo shop and picking out our photos, the spa visits, shopping in the stores, going to the reading and game room and picking out some books (all the good games had been taken already since we went there in the middle of the week), the captains signing (the captain was available for an hour to sign the autograph books and take a picture to the art of entertaining series where I learned how to fold napkins real pretty and carve a watermelon to look like a rose (yeah Ill really be able to do that!), sitting at the internet café for 5 minutes to send off a quick email to friends and family to say hi we are having fun, the adult karaoke on the last night was pretty funny, although this guy did do a pretty good Joe Cocker imitation, the shopping informative sessions that I did while my daughter was in the kids club with one of her little friends, and the all important pina colada here and there.
We hung out at the Orlando airport from about 10am or so until 1pm when we had to get to the flight. The Orlando airport is excellent. There are tons of shops to browse around in, a little game room and a fountain in the Hyatt hotel lobby (connected to the airport terminal) that was really nice to sit by and watch the kids play around the fountain and flirt with the idea of getting soaking wet. Before u knew it, 3 hours had gone by and we were rushing to get to the gate to get on our flight. The only thing I am disappointed in was the fact that I didnt have the opportunity to volunteer to get off the flight for a free airfare someplace else. I was kind of hoping/counting on doing that so that I could have a free flight somewhere else in the future. But hey, it beats sitting at the airport from 10am until 4:30pm!
We did sooooo many things in that week. I know I didnt list all of them, but there was just tons of stuff to do. From the bingo, the shows, the line dancing, the pool, the formal pictures, the character appearances, walking around in Shutters the photo shop and picking out our photos, the spa visits, shopping in the stores, going to the reading and game room and picking out some books (all the good games had been taken already since we went there in the middle of the week), the captains signing (the captain was available for an hour to sign the autograph books and take a picture to the art of entertaining series where I learned how to fold napkins real pretty and carve a watermelon to look like a rose (yeah Ill really be able to do that!), sitting at the internet café for 5 minutes to send off a quick email to friends and family to say hi we are having fun, the adult karaoke on the last night was pretty funny, although this guy did do a pretty good Joe Cocker imitation, the shopping informative sessions that I did while my daughter was in the kids club with one of her little friends, and the all important pina colada here and there.
My kids are a bit older than your DD - my dd is 15 (16 in 1 month) and ds is 10 - and we can't wait!! Actually, my whole family will be on this trip - 18 of us !! Thanks again!
FYI...u can ask Guest Services for a detailed bill at any point during your cruise to see how much u have spent.
