Precious Memories: Boarding the NCL Jade in Civitavecchia

11/10/2012

(Saturday) -- Rome to Port

Before boarding the NCL Jade in the afternoon, we made good use of the morning and explored a few places around the area, mainly by walking. We were hoping to hit as many sites as we could before RomeCabs, out private transfer would pick us up at 11:30.

We started off from the Vatican area.

DC was our "tour guide" for the morning. (Actually he was our guide in many places.)

A long line in front of St. Peter's, it was Saturday morning.

walking away from St. Peter's Basilica

Ponta San Angelo

Castel Sant Angelo

on the bridge looking at St. Peter's

Pantheon

back to the castle

through the Angel's Gate

back to Tomas

On Board the NCL Jade

The van from RomeCabs picked us up on time and we had the same driver, same van from the day before so the drive was uneventful this time. It was a very nice ride to the port with excellent weather and road condition. As we entered the port, an incident in front caused a little delay for us. I believe the driver wanted to go to the cruise terminal, which is not allowed here unless you are bus services with certain companies. The driver almost had a fist fight with the security staff at the gate. Fortunately, he turned around and we were able to pass through.

We are Latitude Gold and this time we had a suite, so checking in was really quick and easy. NCL did a much better job boarding passengers than MSC, in my opinion. I will have another entry about the "Suite Life on NCL". Once we settled in we went for a late lunch at the Garden Cafe because by now it was too late for Cagney's.

Emergency drill was done and we didn't have to take our life jackets with us. Our station was at the theater so it was easy. The ship sailed away on time and we began our incredible journey on the Jade.