After 45 minutes dockside, guests were getting upset. We were with a group of 7, celebrating a friend’s birthday, with plans to watch fireworks together afterwards. It was about 93 degrees outside, sunny, hot and very humid.

If you want the longer version, here is what happened during the July 4th, 3:30 PM departure. Delayed departures, delayed arrivals, broken air conditioning and ventilation system, chain smokers, horrible, stale, toxic air quality, really hot inside and outside temperatures thieving slot machines that take your money and don’t even bother to operate management staff who have “no control”, and insensitive owner/operators who would rather make a buck than assure the safety of guests and employees. It will be a cold day in hell before my husband and I return to the Port Richey Sun Cruise.