Sarah and Chris picked us up from home but we had too much luggage for them to take so we took one of our cars as well and we got to Woodall Services for the pick up in good time.
The coach then arrived quite early and we got on board and settled down for the journey.
What a contrast it was to driving ourselves there. There were two drivers and they loaded our bags on board and off we went.
We had several stops at service areas en route including half an hour at Leicester Forest East, so we had time to grab ourselves a cup of hot chocolate each. The coach was half empty so we were able to spread out and the whole journey proved very relaxing.
We arrived in Southampton in good time but it was the usual gridlock, although there weren't any road works for a change!
Embarkation at Southampton took longer than we're used to, although we were hard pressed to remember when we last set off from here.
We soon found our cabin and our bags were already there. Usually we would have to wait to access our cabin and then wait for our luggage to appear. From home to cabin it was all a pretty painless experience.
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We started to explore the ship as we were determined this time round to find every facility we could. It had been almost 10 years since we were last on board and it was hard to remember much about it.
We wanted to go outside as we left port and enjoy the planned 'sail away' party. However, having started as a very wet grey day the weather was now much improved but, in spite of that, it did manage to rain just as it was time to go and we weren't allowed on deck because of slippery conditions and we never saw any sign of the 'sail away' party either.
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