My dear wife and I were taking a Vietnamese cruise virgin couple with us on our Jan. 6, 2013 cruise on the Pride out of Baltimore. We all live in the Washington, DC metro area. Gotta love only driving about an hour to the Baltimore cruise terminal with plenty of parking and only paying about $100 to park for the week as the main transportation cost for the four of us.
Embarkation:
We got to the terminal late (around 1:45 p.m.) and still was alot of folks processing in so it seem to take about an hour to get through the line, have all four of us processing in and be on our way to the gangway. I think the cruise terminal staff (or where they carnval??) were a bit grumpy by that time directing us to the processing line. Funny thing is that I don't think over 100 folks was behind us once we reached the counter to process in.
Very close to the stairs and only two decks away from the buffet to go grab something to eat or go to the Serenity area.