Married my love that I had asked out nineteen years ago. We got back in touch three years ago; we eloped nine months later. I have never been married before. He wanted me to have a wedding that I never had. One year later we had a ceremony for my family and friends. We received enough money from our guests that we had enough to book a trip on the, what we had been told, best cruise line. We booked it and had to wait six months. I was nervous because I have never been on a cruise before. Am I going to be ok to be in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? I got more excited as the time moved a month prior. I started counting the days on a chalkboard. Two weeks, one week., three days. The night before we packed. I did some research on what to wear, so we packed for a dress up fancy captains’ dinner and we bought Hawaiian shirts for the flower party. We were going to attend the light up lighthouse party. Unfortunately, we did not do any of that.
Well, we just got back today. We got home at 8:30 am which we thought would take three hours to disembark the ship, that was the best part of this trip though, getting off the ship hours before we thought we could.
We had to endure rude people throughout the whole 4-day trip. Other stuff I will get to momentarily. I had so much anxiety and needed to get off the ship desperately, but no, we had people walking very slowly in the middle of the isle and we could not get around a lady. I cannot breathe, my chest pounding as well as my husband’s. We finally got past her and around the corner we got behind a couple that were also taking up the whole isle that we could not get around. As we got off the gangway My husband said, “isn’t that the area that we just passed, that we need to get our thing that was confiscated?” I turned around, rolling over his toe with my luggage and asked a woman from the cruise line. She said, “no that would be downstairs.” I was aggravated because I knew where I was going, and the fact that he was mad at me for hurting his toe when I was having an overflowing explosion of anxiety. I yelled at him; I mean I screamed “I have dealt with your anxiety for the past three years. I get to have my anxiety moment; you do not get it this time.” I almost started to break down, bawling my eyes out!
The other deal of having to endure the rudest people in my entire life is at mealtime. From what I understand, other cruise lines have some sort of food available 24 hours a day, not this cruise line, mealtime is only a two-hour period for each meal. That made the whole ship full of people eat at the same time with small corridors to move around in. They were so rude, they started to knock into us with their shoulders and looked at us like we did it or no acknowledgement at all. And the kicker, if I compared their buffet to Golden Corral, it would be an insult to Golden Corral.
I must change it up for a moment and talk about a highlight light that was good.
We spent a good ½ day at the pool while most of the guest had disembarked to see the island and that was nice. We also had a good day at the lagoon at the cruise line’s private Island. Another best highlight was at the casino. I had brought $45.00 in cash. We won $100.00. I got my money back and paid for my souvenirs.
OK back to the bad. We did not sleep the whole 4-day trip. It was clear that the parents left their young children unattended in the room above us. Every single evening into the wee hours of the night, you would hear, thump, thump, thump, bang as if someone were running and jumping. Another reason we were having trouble sleeping was the bed was so miserably uncomfortable.
We tried to enjoy ourselves and had some drinks that were available from the premium drink package we had purchased when we first boarded, but I ended up having a gastritis attack and my husband having a pancreatitis attack, so we were sick for a day and a half. I was violently throwing up from 1 o’clock in the afternoon until 10 o’clock the next night. He was not throwing up but was so bloated and having pain that it was uncomfortable. This was our fault and no one else’s. We did not drink for the rest of the trip.
I had to use a Netty pot as soon as I got home to get the horrible smells from the cruise line out of my nose. The ship had some areas that were hot and smelled of wet towels and the hallway to our room smelled of sewage. The buffet area also smelled of wet towels and we had the misfortune of entering the hot elevators after someone had obviously let one loose and never have been surrounded by so many people that dint care if they offended anyone with their farts.
I am not even going to get into the crap we paid for specialty drinks and Wi-Fi but could not use.
That was, unfortunately, my honeymoon.