Princesses of the Caribbean P&O Arvia February 2024. Day 15. Flight home

[vampiress88]

Home today. This was going to be a very long day and we hoped we were right in staying on the ship. We also didn’t bother to book a cabin either. We had to be out the room by 8am so we showered and went down for breakfast. Ate our usual.

We had to go show the passports to immigration so I did that while they played pool and did the quiz. Today was dragging already as ours was the second to last group that was going at 3pm.

So we sort of wandered around and then went for lunch around 12.30pm.

Georgia had Indian platter, while the rest of us had cheese burgers.

For pudding it was Raspberry Bakewell for us, pineapple for Georgia and jelly for Scarlett. We tried to avoid the upper decks so as not to get hot and sweaty.

We then heard that the plane was delayed and we now weren’t leaving the ship till 5pm. Really wish we had gone to the beach instead because then we would have been back at 2pm and wouldn’t have wasted all the day. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Next time we really would have just gone. It looked like it was a really nice day too.

We carried on pottering about. We needed to find a plug socket to charge the phone before we got to the airport. We found some in the crows nest. I might have fallen asleep for an hour.

Apparently people were coming up to see the sights and hearing me snore. I just couldn’t keep awake. It got to about 4pm and we went to the buffet. Got a quick snack then headed to the theatre to get the coach. The cleaner woman from “how clean is your house” was sat next to us. She’s in her eights now and doesn’t look it.

We got on the coach and it was quite a long ride to the airport due to the traffic at that time. The kids fell asleep on the bus and were both catching flies.

We got to the airport around 5.45pm. Our plane wasn’t due to leave till around 9pm. We pottered about the airport. Bought some drinks and some sweets for Scott’s work friends. Again this was so boring. The kids played on their phones quite a bit. This really is one of the things I hate with flying is the waiting around inside the airport. When you get off at Southampton you know your just driving home not doing hours in an airport the hours on the plane then even more driving. Urgh.

We boarded the plane climbing up those horrible rickety stairs. Had the same seats as on the way here and I was sat next to the same couple. The dinner meal was ok but the breakfast wasn’t great. I didn’t get any photos. We all tried to sleep a bit but didn’t get very far. We were making good time but unfortunately we had to circle the sky for 30 minutes as no place to land when we got to Manchester air space. Then when we did land we couldn’t park anywhere so it was another good hours delay. The baggage was really quick though. We got our bags, collected the car and drove home a slightly different way. Took about 1.5hours. When we got back we did the washing and ended up getting some milk then had pizza for dinner. We were proper shattered by this point.

We spent a total of $1201 but as we had bought $2000 in dollars these are included in this budget and then £42 as we had £730obc to use and we didn’t go very far over.

So it was £9184 total for the two weeks. This did include all the dollars I bought though so some will roll over onto the next cruise.

It was something on our bucket list but not something I would repeat unless it was a ridiculously amazing deal.

£7036.00 P&o Arvia Caribbean
£1610.00 On shore spends($2000 bought)
£42.00 Spends (£730 obc)
£40.00 Petrol
£96.00 Car park
£360.00 Seat selection
£9184.00

[Cutiepie]

A lovely holiday. I would like to try this some day. I currently work in a school so it will be a few years off🙁
Thanks for sharing