Bye bye until next year

Sadly, it was disembarkation day. We decided to finish the day with breakfast in Luminae.

Right after we arrived, Ann & Greg did, so we enjoyed breakfast together. From breakfast, we all headed to Michael's club. We saw our other friends, Danna & Bruce, so we all sat and chatted until Avaline told us we had to leave.

She escorted us to the gangway and we scanned out. There was a line to get to the escalator, but it moved fairly quickly. There there was also a gangway ahead of us, and we wondered why the Michael's concierge didn't walk us to the front gangway to merge in. Ultimately, it didn't delay us much.

We walked to the end of the terminal to find our bags (the suite bags were laid out, not on the luggage carousels). I guess we were almost the last people off the ship since there were only a few bags there. There was a fairly long line snaking through the terminal for customs. I think it only took about 15 minutes. We had a brief chat with a customs person and we were on our way, or so we thought.

We get out to the curb and Beth can't bring Uber up on her phone. Our plan was to Uber to Ft. Lauderdale airport. We spent about 10 minutes trying and then decided to take a cab out of the port to a nearby Starbucks. We got into the cab line, and when we got the cab he told it would be 20.00. What? For 1/2 mile? He suggested we get out and take the free shuttle out of the port area. We weren't sure what he meant, so Beth asked what it would cost to take us to the Ft. Lauderdale airport. He gave a discounted price that we could live with and we decided to just go with it.

About an hour later, we were dropped off at the Jet Blue terminal (her flight was earlier than mine). It was a zoo. When she tried to use a kiosk to check her bag, it wouldn't let her check in. So she went to the special service line, and I decided to walk from terminal 3 to terminal 1 to drop my bag.

It was quite a hike and uphill. A very nice gentleman going the same way did offer to help, but I was almost at the top.

When I got to the kiosk, it wouldn't let me get my luggage tag, so I went to to the premiere line, where a check in person told me it was too early. Oh well. In the meantime, Beth showed up. I got in the help line, but there was a guy there taking a long time. We gave up and headed to the baggage level, where there was seating and a few food options. We had Starbucks, and then she left for her flight. ,

I went back to the check in area, even though I was an hour early for my check in time. This time, the special service line was empty and I spoke to the agent. She was unable to get me onto an earlier flight, but she did override the system to get my bag checked. After that, through security and hanging out for hours. I'm pleased to report two very unexciting flights, and this trip was a wrap.

I'll be back on the Princess board for my cruise the first week of September, and then back here in January for the Eclipse.