So I’ll end this story with the last messed up thing. We were on the second floor mid ship. Last morning we go to leave our cabin at about 7:44 am to go get breakfast before debark and the hallway is filled with a line of people the length of the ship with all their luggage looking to get off at the second floor gangway! I had to fight our way out of there and was told someone gained because it was so hot and long of a wait! Craziest thing I ever saw. So to recap:
1-first night stayed in NYC due to weather. No casino or stores.
2- instead of changing ports where the seas were not so rough plowed through to get to half moon cat only to be told seas were too rough to tender ( hello.. I could have told them that)
3- two back to back blackouts where people got stuck in elevators
4- coming into NYC at one am instead of the morning due to weather so casino, stores, and drink programs ended early.
so I get that you cannot control the weather but I feel in this case they should have re-routed out of the horrific storm instead of going right through it. Just my opinion based on over 40 cruises where I have been re-routed more then once and just rolled with it.
glad it’s over. Venezia chock full of other issues ( like lines an hour long for guys, pizza, and deli) all the time. I would think if they kept a portion of the buffet open another hour past all aboard it could have definitely eased congestion and wait times. And forget about getting a drink in the casino.. even when empty service was scant to non-existent.