Princess Cruise Experience – 1st Day Travel

We decided to fly the same day as our ship was leaving, which is not advised by the Princess because of possible flight delays, but it all worked out, even though we had very close connecting flights.  That made for a few more gray hairs.

We were fortunate to fly first class with United Airlines.  The San Diego Airport and the United staff could not have been more accommodating with the needs we had traveling with ‘Mr. and Mrs. Spunky’. In particular, Mia at the airport was a gem, she went above and beyond to help all of us.

We were then directed outside to another line to gain a color coded ticket to board one of the many touring buses which took us to our ship. It was chilly and we were all happy to find a seat in our comfortable bus with our entertaining bus driver.

As we made our way to the ship the bus driver gave us a quick city tour and shared some history. A nice bonus.

Once at the port there appeared to be many more lines of hundreds of anxious travelers.  Thank goodness for us, a very kind Princess employee quickly noticed our ‘Mr. Spunky’ might need assistance and offered a wheelchair and escorted he and ‘Mrs. Spunky’ to the front of the lines where there was disability assistance, while me and ‘Mr. Wonderful’ joined the ranks in line.  Again, Princess gains brownie points with all of us.

The lines, oh the many lines.  This continued to be an ongoing theme aboard the Crown, but to the crew members credit all of the lines throughout the week moved quickly.

Above – Princess Processing Center – You go through this area with all of your travel documents prior to loading the ship.  

Once on board we found our stateroom, dropped off our carry-on bags and found some eats.

Next post . . . read about my fist impressions of the ship, from the eye of a designer who is always looking for ways to improve any room.  Scary.

 

 

 

 

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