We had whatever was in our carry-ons. I had to buy some clothes on the ship and they did give us some toiletries when we told them what had happened. 

The problem though was that none of the shops opened until we got out to international waters. Not the biggest deal, but I had been in the same travel clothes for a couple days at that point and really wanted to be able to take a shower without having to put dirty clothes on afterwards.

Our luggage caught up to us at our first port of call, which was a couple days later.

Undisciplined

Wow. What about changes of clothes? Did you have to buy clothes on the cruise?

SimpleStacker

mostly_harmless

Your biggest travel disasters?

The first time my wife and I took a cruise we made the mistake of flying in on the morning of departure. That seems reasonable, right?

The problem is that if anything goes wrong with your connecting flights, you can find yourself in a real pickle. Our departure was delayed, causing us to miss our connection. Fortunately, they got us on another in time, but they didn't get our luggage onto that flight.

We ended up getting on the cruise in time, but without any luggage.