Away we go – again

On May 21, we left Fort Myers around 12:30 to go to Miami. We had a nice driver, Joe, the new owner of Royal Floridian car service. Of course we got to the airport early, but we were able to check in for our flight.

Unfortunately, the TSA was understaffed and it took us over 1 hour to get through security screening, even with our TSA pre-check. We had to let any number of people pass us, because they had a short time to get to their flights.

We were able to spend our time in the Turkish Airlines priority lounge before boarding our Swiss Air flight to Zurich. We had a short connection in Zurich and were concerned when we left Miami almost 45 minutes late. We arrived in Zurich, only 25 minutes late. We flew through passport control (yeah). Then we had a long walk to the train to get to the correct terminal. Of course our gate there was almost to the end. With great speed (and fortunately no secondary security screening) we got to our gate with about 10 minutes to spare. Now our only concern was that our luggage also made this transfer.

A short flight from Zurich to Copenhagen passed quickly. The Copenhagen airport is huge. We walked almost 1.5 miles from our gate to baggage claim. Miraculously our luggage was on the carousel. Now we had to meet up with our cruise line transfer to the ship. This was the biggest snafu of the whole day. We had to stand and wait over an hour for a bus to take us to the ship. The transfer people kept telling us the bus was almost there, but it wasn’t.

Although we had landed in Copenhagen at 2 PM, we did not get to the ship until almost 4. Check in was easy and then we were in our suite. After our muster drill, we had a welcome aboard drink and met another couple in the lounge who had a similar transfer experience.

After dinner, we were able to unpack, clean up and get to bed. Now we are ready to relax and enjoy our cruise.