Flew into Orlando and booked the Fly, Stay and Cruise package at Comfort Inn and Suites in Cocoa Beach. This included a shuttle from the airport to the hotel, accommodations, and then a shuttle to the port in the morning. The hotel was "okay" nothing outstanding...totally fine for one nights stay. They gave us a free drink coupon for the bar but the bartender was quite "surly" and the bar had an odor.

Got to the port about 10:00 and we were onboard about 11:00. Very fast and no issues. The ship is beautiful with many works of art to view about the ship. Special shout out to our stateroom attendant Ben from the Phillippines...absolutely the best we've ever had! He said after this tour that he'd be retiring as his wife wanted him to come home. We had a promonade stateroom that was very nice although we really didn't open the curtains very much as it does not afford you a lot of privacy. It was nice, but just not sure we'd book one again...an inside cabin would have been just fine for us. We found the mixed drinks to be the best at the Bull and Bear pub. Definitely could taste the liquor in them and worth the $6.25 charge. We spent a lot of time there! LOL!

Casino was nice...didn't play all that much but didn't lose all that much money either. Read more