We raced back to the hotel to check out and hop into our cab reserved for 9:45 AM! We arrived at the port about 10:15 am. We wanted to arrive early to try to track down our missing luggage. The latest information we had from the luggage tracing department was that the luggage would be delivered directly to our ship. After texting with our travel agent, LC, she had reached out to Princess to advise them of the situation and they suggested we arrive early to increase the odds that we tracked down our luggage!
But I am getting ahead of myself. Today we are embarking on an exciting 14 day Mediterranean Cruise! This has been a year in the planning - and is intended to celebrate many years of friendship - stemming from meeting at the University of Waterloo. Okay so I fell into the group by virtue of the fact that I married a Waterloo Alumnus 31 years ago - but I am sure glad I met these wonderful women!
This is our itinerary.
Princess has refined their check in process to be a smooth operation! We had checked in, received our medallion app and were onboard by 11:30 am. In the course of that 75 minutes, I checked in with Cristos - lost luggage manager, three times. He assured me he had received an email regarding our lost luggage (no doubt from LC) and the bags would be delivered to our stateroom before we departed. So we put our faith in Cristos and boarded.
We walked to our staterooms on deck 11 and they were ready! Well done Princess!! We dropped our carry on bags and went to the Capri dining room for lunch. We all had the beef medallions and they were delicious!
We of course checked in at the muster station, watched the safety video and in JP’s case, tried on her life jacket!!
We then went to the retreat pool on deck 17 at the front of the ship. Never have I been on a cruise ship where I actually spent so much time on in the pool and on a deck chair! It was about 38 C and a wonderful to moderate your body temperature!! We made friends too - two sisters from Idaho.
At 4 pm DG decided she wanted to return to the stateroom to see if our luggage had been delivered. She returned to the pool deck with a smile!!! The luggage has been returned!! Hallelujah!
We all returned to our staterooms and unpacked our luggage and before you knew it- we had a dinner reservation at 5:40 in the Amalfi Dining room to attend. I had the chilled soup - it was like a virgin pina coloda in a bowl!!!
After dinner were up on decks 16 and 17 as we sailed away - sporting our new shirts that DG surprised us with!
If you read closely, the shirt caption reads “Oh ship! It’s a girls trip!” The shirts brought lots of smiles and much interaction with other guests.
Then we watched a Michael Buble concert on the big screen over the pool. We then made our way to the Princess Live Theatre where there was a fun trivia game called Mind Duel with the cruise staff.
And so we are packing for an early departure in Santorini tomorrow morning. We have been advised that this is a tender port, there is no shade and we are to be joined by many ships. We are packing for a day that might allow time on a beach and hopefully a boat ride. We shall see!!
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