Day 3 Getting onboard Marseille

So today we are heading to the ship to start our 7 night cruise but first a breakfast that we all agreed on at around 10am. We are expected to board at 3pm but we thought rather waiting at the hotel lobby we should just go to the cruise terminal and risk getting on early so Warren had arranged 2 executive mini vans to collect us at 1pm but changed it to 12pm so after checking out we all waited outside the hotel waiting for the cars to turn up, sure enough on the hour both of them pulled up and we loaded our bags and were on the way to the cruise port. It took about 20 minutes and we rolled up at around 12:40 there were already loads of people there and as we were in yacht club we had our own check in spot, we ended up waiting till just gone 1pm before they checked us in which was quite painless and we were then shown into the yacht club lounge, with a few formalities we were then asked to board the ship, normally we would be escorted on by a butler but as we were a large group of 9 and we got slightly separated at security we ended up getting onboard ourselves which pissed Lorna off something special, we walked into Yacht club on the 16th floor and was met by the concierge who was very surprised to see us coming in un escorted Lorna made her concerns known again and we walked into the bar for a well deserved drink. Just to be clear myself Lorna, Tracy, Ken and Sandy have been  on yacht club before so we really wanted the others to experience the whole service but so far it was lacking a little but everyone was impressed with the rooms when we all went back to see them. We agreed to meet a little later and explore the ship which we did but after a few stops in various bars that did not have diet coke or Bacardi we had to move around to find bars with our preferred drinks, we eventually ended up in the sports bar in a circular booth where we were making so. much noise it was embarrassing, we also went to the champagne bar and ordered Laurent Perrier champagne and some oysters which took nearly 1 hour to turn up, seriously a champagne bar that serves oysters that didn’t have either of them was a poor show but when they turned up they were lush in fact they doubled the order free of charge for us for the inconvenience, we eventually had to go to our muster station which was in the theatre which was a bit of a pain as we got there quite early so we ended up sitting there for ages but it did give us a chance to get all our phones connected to the ships wifi which was quite complicated after the briefing we moved back to the pool bar in yacht club and carried on drinking, I think the guys are impressed with the ship so far so we all got ready for tonights meal in the yacht club restaurant.  We all met and had a few drinks before we went up to the restaurant but as we are 9 people we were causing a issue with seating and we were asked to come back a bit later so they could set up a table for us, we went back down for a drink and waited for 30 mins and went back up to the restaurant, what we didn’t know was there was a French group of 9 that also wanted our table and as typical arrogant French people they kicked off when they could see we had the table they wanted, they were really nasty towards the staff and felt they were entitled to have the table we were now sitting at. But by now we had got a really good rap-our going with can you believe, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira our table servers that they were so on our side. The French twats were really kicking off and even asked the manager to ask us if we would agree to eat at 7pm each. night so they could have the table later on, we told them to basically fuck off and snooze you lose, honestly there were daggers from there table all night so much so at one point Kelly said across the table to stop staring at here and get a life, it was so pathetic and to be honest partially ruined the evening. So we think tomorrow they will be there at 7:30pm to secure the table just to spite us despite wanting to eat much later at 9pm Fucking French seriously. Anyway we had a great night despite the prats and the girls serving us were brilliant and Belinda our Sommelier was also on our side and thought she remembered us from a cruise last year. We had a great meal and ended up back down in the yacht club bar for a nightcap we ended up going to be at around midnight all feeling full and a little tipsy and defiant towards our French prats.