Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas debuted from her new winter port of New Orleans, Louisiana this week. Voyager of the Seas will sail out of New Orleans from now through April 2012.
The first day of operations in the big easy didn't go as well as planned, as there were reports of issues at the port. Evidently there were some issues with the newly renovated cruise ship terminal due to the arrival of about 3000 passengers. The overwhelming issues caused hours-long traffic jams around the port as well as lines that went back into the street from noon until long after 5pm. In addition, there were check-in computer meltdowns and slow security checkpoints.
Voyager's departure from New Orleans was originally scheduled for 4pm, but was delayed until 8pm.
