I am currently sitting in a hotel in the Dominican Republic, normally that would be said with enjoyment. I am suppose to be on a cruise sitting on my big balcony watching the ocean crashing against the ship. So, with my heart issues and transplant it's been a while since my wife and I have been able to take a vacation. So We planned a cruise out of Miami , we live in NC, so we booked a flight. A new policy The airline we flew on had is you must arrive at baggage checkin atleast 45 minutes before your flight in order to be given a boarding pass. This was not the case not so long ago, before if we were there 20 30 minutes before it didn't matter, it was just our risk if we or our bags didn't make the flight. Anyway, we arrived about 45 minutes before flight, but it took 15 minutes to make it through the line so ,they wouldn't let us on. For those that may not be aware Cruises normally leave port at 4pm and you have to check in no later than an hour before departure. So we had booked this flight from NC to Miami at 6:15Am, thinking we would have plenty of time, heck its only a 2 hour flight. Well now that they wouldn't let us on, we had to catch the next flight , which was leaving at 7:30am arriving in Miami at 12:50pm. We thought doesn't leave much time for error, but it should get us there on time even still. That was until we boarded the plane and were told a ground stop had been issued and we would be sitting on the runway for an unknown amount of time.
US in line waiting with 20some other flights waiting as well
You know where this is headed I'm sure bottom line we landed at the same time our cruise was leaving port, that's some frustrating stuff. So we ended up having to get a hotel last night in Miami. We aslo called the cruise line and were told we did have the option to meet the ship at the next port. Which would mean buying another flight to the Dominican Republic and another hotel because the cruise didn't port in the DR until 2 days from then. So here we are now in a hotel in the DR hoping we can get on the ship tomorrow without any glitches, ill update you soon on what happened. I know this post jumped in front of what should have been a third recovery post but I had to put this out there, just to painfully good.
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