Day 8 - Celebrity Summit Thanksgiving Cruise – Saturday, 30 November – San Juan, Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Georgia

We left the cabin at around 8 am and made our way to Michael's Club where they had strong coffee and some pastries and juice. Because we were “VIP”s – we could disembark whenever we wanted to. There was nobody else in Michael's Club when we were there. On our way to Michael's Club, the Rendezvous lounge was full of people with every seat occupied as they waited for their disembarkation number to be called. This was a nice perk of being in the VIP class – we disembarked at our leisure.
 

I dropped off the Celebrity questionnaire for the most part rating everything except the MDR as “excellent”. I had left a small tip for Socorro, our room steward. We found our luggage easily and were directed immediately to a taxi that would take us to the airport for which we paid $45 again for all of us including our luggage.

We were coming to the end of a fantastic cruise. In retrospect, although we probably saved a bit of money, we should have booked an excursion in St Thomas. We had received a call and message on our phone earlier in the week from the Concierge who specialized in local, private excursions. I had thought about booking us a private excursion through the ship but then decided that we would just “wing” it in St Thomas which didn't really work well for us. We've already decided that on our August cruise on the Summit, we would eat at Normandie and Qsine twice each and then find 2 restaurants in Bermuda to have dinner avoiding the MDR altogether. Clearly, we've reached the epitome of cruise line snobbishness.

We narrowly made our connecting flight in Miami but, predictably, our luggage didn't make it to Atlanta on our flight so we waited around the baggage claim for about an hour to collect our luggage.  We went straight to Rathbun's Steakhouse for dinner from the airport and arrived exactly o time for our 6:15 pm reservation.

I tried the ribeye trio - "wet aged", "dry aged", and american wagyu - with a side of seared foie gras.  We all shared a bunch of appetizers and side dishes which were all wonderful.