Sep 21, 2026 · 28 min · 9 segments
This week, we’re diving into the Pre-Cruise Playbook—the simple but important steps that can make embarkation day feel smooth instead of stressful. From choosing flights and a pre-cruise hotel to…
So we'll, let's start with just the, always go in a day early.
Oh yeah.
Always go in a day early.
Yeah.
Like, especially, I don't know.
I'm seeing so, all of us are, are just so many cancellations and delays and that ship's not waiting for you.
So if you're not there.
Yeah.
They're going to take off.
Yep.
Well, I've done it both ways because I really wanted to see how it did.
It was stressful.
But the biggest thing is you have to take that very first flight out.
Yes.
If you're going to cut it that close, you have to take that very first flight out so that there's no delays or anything that whether anywhere else in the other top part of the planet affects your flight because that airplane was parked there overnight and you're the first one to get on it and it's freezing cold because it was sitting there all night.
So anyway, you definitely, if you, and I wanted to see how it worked.
I mean, flying in that day, I would not, I definitely would not do it if it was anywhere else but Fort Lauderdale or Miami.
And the reason being, honestly, because the port is like 15, 20 minutes, 30 minutes from the airport.
Other places like Houston and Galveston and Los Angeles, oh, no, no, no, no, absolutely not.
And then I flew out that day, again, because it's only 15 to 20 minutes to get to the airport.
I have to say it was stressful.
And if there was any kind of delays, I was freaking out.
So I don't make it a practice, but I really wanted to try it to see how other people
do
it.
So we'll, let's start with just the, always go in a day early.
Oh yeah.
Always go in a day early.
Yeah.
Like, especially, I don't know.
I'm seeing so, all of us are, are just so many cancellations and delays and that ship's not waiting for you.
So if you're not there.
Yeah.
They're going to take off.
Yep.
Well, I've done it both ways because I really wanted to see how it did.
It was stressful.
But the biggest thing is you have to take that very first flight out.
Yes.
If you're going to cut it that close, you have to take that very first flight out so that there's no delays or anything that whether anywhere else in the other top part of the planet affects your flight because that airplane was parked there overnight and you're the first one to get on it and it's freezing cold because it was sitting there all night.
So anyway, you definitely, if you, and I wanted to see how it worked.
I mean, flying in that day, I would not, I definitely would not do it if it was anywhere else but Fort Lauderdale or Miami.
And the reason being, honestly, because the port is like 15, 20 minutes, 30 minutes from the airport.
Other places like Houston and Galveston and Los Angeles, oh, no, no, no, no, absolutely not.
And then I flew out that day, again, because it's only 15 to 20 minutes to get to the airport.
I have to say it was stressful.
And if there was any kind of delays, I was freaking out.
So I don't make it a practice, but I really wanted to try it to see how other people
do
it.
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