Ibis Budget Hotel, Southampton

It's only 1:19 and it's already been a very long day. I managed to sleep for an hour on the bus to Southampton. So I've at least got some sleep in the last 24 hours.

I walked to the hotel, getting there around 10:30 to see if I can check in early or at least leave my suitcases there. There was no early check in but I got to ditch my suitcases, which felt great. Then it was just trying to fill in three and a half hours until I can check in. I went to McDonalds, got some stuff from Poundland (the uk version or a dollar store) and now I'm sitting outside the hotel with still over half an hour to go before I can check in.

Once I finally do get into my hotel room all I'm going to do is sleep and relax until leave tomorrow to join the ship at 9am.Read more