The nightmare

The flight to Dubai left at 7 pm on Thursday 2nd February,it took almost 7 hours,with the 4 hour time difference I was ready to be "met and greeted " by the Imagine Cruising representative,the company that had organized the trip, at 6.10 on Friday morning.More than 2 and a half hours later the other 29 passengers had joined me. Two and a half hours. At 9, still not sure if we were missing someone,we boarded a bus and set off for the hotel Atlantis where we were going to spend 3 nights before boarding the Vision of the Seas.At the hotel I was told there was no room for me,they did not have a reservation in my name.They were completely full mainly with Chinese tourists celebrating the Chinese New Year.I will not go at the moment into the details what followed, all I will say is that when finally at 3 pm I was in the room of my new hotel The One and Only The Mirage,I collapsed into bed and slept and slept and slept.