Juleigh DePriest

The next day we docked at Key West. This was a great place to visit...IF we only had more time. The boat docked and hour late and it took an hour and forty minutes to get all the guests off the boat. (Three hours of our port of call taken up by tardiness and disorganization!) The other two hundred guests that signed up for overpriced shore excursions got to get off first and were shuttled to their destinations. The remaining thirteen hundred guests stood in line outside the boat (some for over an hour) waiting on two train trolleys to cart them to downtown Key West. Fifteen Hundred guests on board and it took about seventy-five guests per train to the downtown area! It was crazy! Everyone stood lined up out in the heat waiting to be transported off the dock. NO walking on the dock in Key West. We got downtown at 5:30. All the museums were closed at 5 p.m. So, we couldn't do much touring. We had to be back on the last trolley by 9:15, which gave us four hours to visit Key West. Very nice place! People are so friendly and the street performers are entertaining. We wished we had more time here. Three other cruise ships were also docked at the same time we were.... So the restaurants were extremely crowded with long wait times. So, we opted to forgo the Wonderful Island cuisine for our "much better cruise food” HAH!

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