Carnival Pride Disembarkation Bahamas Cruise Review Blog 12/20/09 Day 8

The Carnival Pride seemed to arrived at port at around or before 8 AM. We woke up at around 8:20 AM. It was a very cold morning we could see thick blankets of We had packed our large luggage which had to be left outside by midnight for the crew to picked up. We received Zone 9 luggage tags. We went to get food at the Mermaid's Grille at about 8:40 AM (it closed at 9 AM) and had to eat at the cabin because there were no available seats. There was a pretty decent selection of breakfast foods (this was the first time on this cruise we ate breakfast that wasn't room service). They had scramble eggs, sausage links, bacon, cereal, skim milk, regular milk, chocolate milk, fruit, grits, danish, bagels, croissant, etc.

After eating, we left our cabin for good at around 9:10 and proceeded to the libary at deck 3 which was surprisingly empty. All the other lounge chairs on deck 3 seemed to be occupied. An announcement was made at around 9:30 AM asking all passengers to leave the cabins if they were still in there. Carnival let self-assisted disembarkation people get off the boat first (the deck order seemed random). Then it was Zone 1-4, 4-8, and then 9 through 13. We didn't get off the ship until around 11:15 AM.

Taxi from the Baltimore Cruise Terminal to the BWI Baltimore airport was a flat rate of $30 which was nice. The road conditions were pretty bad so our driver had to take some side streets through downtown. We got to the airport at 12:45 PM and tried to check luggage for our 6:25 PM flight but Southwest wouldn't let us- apparently you can't check your luggage more than 4 hours before flight time. So we checked our luggage in a couple hours later and had to wait in a massively long line. Plus we found out the bad news that our flight was delayed until 8:15 PM. We waited at the upstairs lounge overlooking the planes and runways. There was free Boingo wireless internet for the holidays thanks to Google. We were able to connect but after having to shutdown and reconnect later we could no longer obtain an IP address. I imagine it was due to all the people in the airport connected.

Overall we were actually lucky because apparently yesterday the entire airport was closed due to all the snow.

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