Reply To: Making FLL suck less
We were in Terminal 2 (I think? Google says that’s where Delta is). We wound up there for several hours since we left the ship early (7:15) and carried our own luggage. Baggage check at the curb and security were a breeze. We were at our gate by 8am. So, just 45 minutes from the time we walked out of our cabin until we sat at the gate – not bad! There was a small deli where I had a pretty good chocolate chip muffin. I didn’t care about outlets because we charged everything up on the ship.
We normally wouldn’t leave the ship before 8 and use Luggage Valet (long story, not happy with our steward or Guest Services about that screw up), but we were up early thanks to whatever that alarm noise was on the dock at ~5am. I was amazed by how easy everything else was all because we left early and carried our own bags. As much as I am so not a morning person, we might leave early again next year just to avoid the airport lines.
At least there was free Wi-fi at FLL. My home airport of ATL is the busiest in the world and we don’t even have that. I spent my wait time deleting… err, I mean reading email.