Day One Of My P&O Cruise

In May till June for 2 weeks I was on the Pacific Jewel. The Pacific Jewel is a cruise boat from P&O cruises and is one of the smallest boats of all of the boats called, The Pacific Aria, The Pacific Explorer, The Pacific Jewel and a few other cruise boats. This is what I was doing for those two weeks.

DAY 1

It was Monday and it was time to get up, our boarding time for the boat was 2:30 but our flight was around 10-12 in the morning so I didn’t need to rush I was packed and we were leaving the house at 9:00. It was risky flying out the day of the cruise because it was windy in christchurch and our flight could be delayed any moment and we could miss the cruise. It was 9:00 and we were nearly at the airport. It was only a little bit after 9:00 when we arrived at the airport. We were early for our flight but we ended up deciding to go wait in the sitting area waiting for our gate number to be called. A while later we were on our 1 hour flight to Auckland, I was sitting in the window seat next to my Mum and Simon and in front of us was Megan and Jorja. We arrived at Auckland and a nice taxi man took us to the port and it didn’t feel like a long drive from the airport to the port.

We Finally arrived at the port 1 hour before our boarding time but we still got our bag tickets and put them on our bags then our bags were put onto the boat, we went into the waiting area and a sign said “NO WATER” and Megan threw out her water but Simon, Mum, Jorja and I still had our water and so my Mum asked a security lady and she said that you could get rid of it up stairs so we went up the escalator into the shop and, there was a place next to the shop where we had to fill out a overseas form then grab those and our passports and get into the line. Once we were at the front of the line we threw out our water and put our bags on the scanning machine and we went through the human scanning machine. We also had to go in another line to get our room cards and they were also how we buy things that my Mum would pay for at the end of the cruise. After all of the security Megan, Jorja and I got our gold cards where we could go on the activities then we finally boarded the boat “I was the first on” and brought 5 lanyards one each for our cards.

We went to our rooms and Megan and Jorja picked up their bags from the side of the hall and a little bit later Simon got his bag from the hall but my Mums and my bags weren’t there and after everyone else unpacked my mum got her bag and a little bit later I got my bag and unpacked. Megan, Jorja and I decided to go look off deck 14 that was the highest deck that we could go and we could see deck twelve from up there. There was no deck 13 and we weren’t allowed to go on deck 1 and 3 but there were still 14 decks or I should say there were really 13 decks but the staff don’t want to admit it. After that day we were hungry so we went to the restaurant called The pantry.After we went through security, unpacked, explored a little bit and ate we decided to go back to our room and relax then go to sleep.