Embarkation was a complete mess, the NFL had taken all the local parking lots and the cruise line failed to make arrangements for cruiser to park. We spent 2 hours in traffic getting parked.

Had to drag the luggage to the corner of the lot to load onto a wagon, were really concerned about seeing it again but it did show up in the room and fairly quick.

Once in the New Orleans terminal it went very quickly, assuming everyone was still outside looking for parking spaces, anyway we were on the ship in pretty quick order. Read more