Vacation, Adventure & Lessons Learned-part 6

I'm not going into the cruise part now, that will be with the "show and tell". When we got back to the hotel, after the cruise, it was about 10-10:30 the morning of the 16th. Nobody was allowed to check in until 3PM. Yes, you are reading correctly. Talk about upset people! Now, check out is 11AM. Four hours to get rooms ready? Really? Some people changed into their bathing suits and went to the pool. When 3 PM rolled around, the line was out the door! We finally got in at 3:20. But we did luck up on one thing, no smoking rooms were available, so we got a poolside room with patio! That was very nice!
The next day when we had to check out at 11AM. Our plane didn't leave until 7pm. What to do with all that time? We packed everything except the cloths we were going to wear on the plane and put on our bathing suits. We packed the car, and stayed by the pool until 2PM. Then we went shopping and to another place I will discuss in "show and tell".
We went to the airport, to return the car, couldn't find a gas station to fill the tank close by, so we were charged a fueling cost. Not only that, but charged another day for the rental car, because we failed to show up at 2PM to return the car. Which, I'm sure the rental person informed us of, in her mind only! Total free car rental added up to 286.00! Lesson learned, never, ever go this route again! Stay away from "CheapTrips.Com". READ ALL THE SMALL PRINT on everything, even if there are fifty pieces of information! The amount of the whole trip could have been spent on a direct cruise, longer days in port, and without the added expenses. And just wait for my "show and tell" of the 4 days, 3 nights cruise and our time in Nassau, coming up!