Sunday, June 20, 2010

Liberty Harbor Marina...Jersey City, NJ....not the greatest..not the worst...but it does win an award for confused (or inept) staff. Seems as though when Floyd started this booking process last March, they noted that the TUMBLEWEED was an RV...do people even name those things???... that error coupled with the fact that they booked us for the wrong dates made getting into here a cluster....it is, however, a much calmer place to be than the fancy Liberty Landing Marina across the way. The promises of great views of the city are not true...NJ apartment buildings are very much in the way...but we are a really short walk to the Light Rail, a little longer to the PATH train to NYC, and the NYC Water taxi makes a stop right at the marina dock. After numerous calls, errors were finally resolved. We were docked in a pretty nice slip. We continue, however, to be frustrated with the way things are handled. For example, seems that you need a code for the laundry room but there is no key pad on the security gate. Or how about, they gave us the security guard's key for our pier gate....it is just a real good thing that we have a sense of humor...The local boaters around us have found nothing unusual about any of this. In fact, one couple told us that the Latin phrase at the bottom of the NJ flag roughly translates to "shut up and bowl." Now that's funny!!!!

1 comment:

JacqueNelson said...

Well, you are in New Jersey....which is waaaay close to New York....and they probably do everything a little differently there! Sounds like you still have a sense of humor!