this is my first review and my forth cruise, my husband and i go each year usually with my parents, we are a young couple with no children.
we stayed at a small hotel in fort lauderdale called Ramada cruise port and airport... nothing to write home about needs ALOT of repairs but the price was right and they had free transportation to and from cruise and airport and also a small shopping mall. food was OK but there was a pizza place that delivered that was fantastic!!! we stayed on both ends of the cruise.
getting to the ship was great, fast friendly porters took our luggage from the shuttle and we made our way to the terminal(if you want a faster embarkation get into a wheelchair LOL) we got to the terminal at about 1:00 pm and were on the ship at about 2:00 pm not to bad... we went to have a bite to eat and then went to explore, found all of the majors...and then settled down to talk and watch the confusion of lost people. i cant say enough how surprised i was that it was like the staff were scared to ask you if you wanted a drink, on most other lines your butt is barley in the seat before there is someone asking what you would like.
lots of closet room, lots of hangers, tv service was poor and choppy, room clean and quiet.