Year 4, Day 186, “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 11/02/2024. Clifty Hill 2 – Day 9 of 16-night KY to New Orleans and Day 8 of 14-night New Orleans Carribean cruise on Brilliance of the Seas. It is back-to-back day at NOLA. NOLA is short for New Orleans, Louisiana. We are in port early and the luggage is being taken into the terminal by 6:30am.
Incredible logistics. There is so much going on at one time. Passengers disembark. Garbage and sewage are removed. New passengers board. Luggage is handled both ways. New supplies are loaded. The outside of the ship is painted. Onboard cleaning is performed. A coast guard inspection takes place. A bunch of busy bees. The ship is cleared by 8am.
There are a 61 back 2 back cruisers this trip. All back 2 backers met in the Colony Club on deck six in the aft of the ship. Some of the back-to-back cruisers we met are on the ship for six cruises in a row. Wow. There we received new stateroom keys. While waiting to be escorted off the ship through customs and back on, they announced three times that all luggage tags have been called. They urged everyone to please disembark the ship. This was the final call. I know they wanted to say GET OFF THE SHIP so we can do our work. At 9:30am they start calling names of people. Wow, how rude can people be.
Coast Guard is coming on board today once all guests are off for inspection. They are inspecting because they just came from a home port of Vancouver, British Columbia. They have a new home port of New Orleans. New guests cannot board till inspection is complete. The last cruise was 80% full. It was pretty quiet. This cruise has 2,291 passengers. The rooms are all booked. It is interesting to walk around an empty ship. The crew was everywhere for the coast guard drill.
They started the boarding process at 11:15am. Lots of families started boarding. It is going to be a different cruise. Every cruise is different because the atmosphere is set by the guests on board. We attended the Consecutive Cruisers Lunch.
Main dining room was packed for first seating with large families. Between this cruise and last cruise, I noticed most passengers seem to be either first timers or die-hard cruisers. Not many in between.
The casino was smoky and packed in the evening.
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Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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