Getting there and embarkation
Since we live on the North Fork of Long Island, we decided to take advantage of embarking in Boston. We live 20 minutes from the ferry in Orient Point, NY so we opted to take the ferry to New London and then drive to Boston. The trip up was easy. No traffic on Sunday morning and we got to Boston in 3.5 hours (which includes 1 hr 20 min on the ferry). Parking at the port was easy, and it is a 5 minute walk to the terminal. Once we got to the terminal it was confusion and lines. We were wandering on the street, and found a porter to take our luggage. There were no signs that we saw indicating where to drop off the luggage, and there were people on the line to check in, who still had their luggage. The line to check in took us about 1 hr 30 minutes, once we did check in, it was quick and we were given zone 10 for boarding. We found out that the reason for the delay was that the computers were down; the rep at the desk did handwrite our information. It was another 30 minute wait until our zone was called. We got on board and were able to drop our bags off in the cabin. Then we headed to the Fish and Chips on deck 10 for lunch. I had heard good things about the Fish and Chips and we were looking forward to trying them out. They were ok, not great I thought they were too heavily battered, but we both liked the calamari. All said, I hope they fix this issue, it could turn people off from departing from Boston.
Food/Dining Room
Cabin 1220 - Interior w/ porthole. Great value. The 2 portholes give plenty of light and you are able to cover them and draw the curtains which provided you with plenty of darkness as well. The room was quiet, with the exception of an alarm bell ringing (kind of like an alarm clock) every so often and what sounded like dryers running. The noise wasn't loud and never bothered us, it was more like white noise.