Carnival Destiny - Day 1 - Embarkation

So the day finally arrived. We take a Turistico cab to the port. Its a mad house there. For one, the Democrat primaries are there and there are some protests. Nothing serious but it did create traffic problems. No worries as its early afternoon. We arrive at the port. If you are cruising use a porter to take your bags for you. I couldn't imagine taking our 5 bags plus 3 carry-on bags ourselves.

We first need to get into line to register and get our "Sail and Sign" cards. KK is being a mini-terror. Crying and whining. Luckily we got a "Special Assistance" boarding so we only had to wait a few minutes before we could board. We get on the boat, but our room isn't ready yet!

But all is good, we wait upon the Lido Deck, with a pool and bar. Luckily Melissa had packed KK's swimsuit in our carry-on bags so we had that and let KK jump into the pool. She was entertained for hours. It was a pretty non-eventful afternoon and evening. Boarding was farily easy. UNfortunately, I never got a lot of pictures of our ship. I always felt I'd get them later, but never did.

We had a balcony stateroom that slept 3 people. Not bad. I liked the room and the balcony was nice to relax on. The only issue was we were on the 8th floor, right below the Lido deck. This was at first nice as the food was just upstairs, no elevator ride needed. The bar was right upstairs. The downside was when they had party nights, you could hear all the walking around into the wee hours of the night.

Views from the Lido Deck, San Juan, Puerto Rico