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To London, but we can make our original flight home as was intended. Part of why we were different from others is we used fly2fun and others did not for several reasons. They def did fly2fun first.

And here I thought it was the martini……

Did hear one story that one group leaving today had flight delay for 4 hours and not leaving till almost 10pm. This was from another group that was leaving around same time. Sure they are not happy campers.

I agree, they always do.

Couple cocktails will not hurt tht process…..thanks

Love the attitude. Enjoy!!

Much better on landing, waited 35 minutes for bags, then Carnival reps waiting outside baggage claim and 4 busses to Hotel. We landed at Gatwick and took busses to Heathrow, Raddisson blu. Very nice hotel checked us all in in ballroom, fairly quick. Went and ate and back in room. Exhausted, they have busses all times to both airports tomorrow, think we will do a cab, Were told to save all receipts and send in for reimbursement. Hotel already paid for. Others in our group had other flights (all made it out), everyone on a flight goes to same hotel (different from ours. will see them in airport tomorrow. I am beat.

So it was a very interesting day. Crew was fantastic, off the charts, especially when they were up all night. Once we got to the airport, things unravelled somewhat. We were told to chill and come back at 12:15 for check in starting at 12:30. Vouchers they gave us were not accepted in places outside security, told us to ty inside. There were 200 Carnival guests trying to check in for charter. Two reps came late and first two guests were handicapped and much discussion and absolutely nothing happening for 45 minutes. Turns out it was about the batteries in their power chairs. 45 minutes and not one person thru check in. We were maybe 1/3 back and got checked in at 1:50 for 2:30 flight. The walk over to security, then thru customs, were told to run for flight. They ended up waiting for all to get on plane.

Thanks

Outside area

Hamburg airport

After you get off there was a customs check point then down stairs to collect bags. Then out to busses

From butterflies off the ship. They collect sign and sail at that point. Can only assume so that they know who left. Never seen that before. Here is a pic od Butterflies.

Not that bad. In contact with them. They will be flying out early evening, hope to sync up tonight.

Laundry was waiting for us when we went to room. Check. Went to Butterflies at 8:15. Very crowded. Talked with entertainment team member while waiting. They were up all night going thru stuff

Then at midnight we had a knock on the door. One of the entertainers telling us we had to be packed and be in butterflies by 8. Long story short, thought it was for all of us. Woke everybody up and got them packing. Turns out just our cabin. Long lines at GS to find this out. Some packed and ready to go and some in limbo till rest of info comes thru. To quote a Grateful Dead song “what a long strange trip its been”. now if I could get our laundry we sent out…….

So it was a crazy night. We went to bed at 11 thinking the group would be possibly different shuttles but more or less intact.

Lol, not sure why they came out that way. It was a crazy night.

Cruise critic rocks

Our pleasure. It was still an amazing cruise

The spice of life

On a side note, we had dinner at the steakhouse. Great meal to cap a crazy day.

I totally agree. It was chaos d they were all there to help. When the times get tough they are there to answer the bell. I am sure they are in for a long nite. It has been a heck of a day. Lets see what tomorrow brings. More to come.

You would be correct

We need to re confirm our flight details by 9 tonight. There is a form we have fill out. More to come.