I just got back last night. Overall, it was a nice vacation, but very disappointing in some ways. Some of it was RC fault and some is probably mine.
BOARDING -- We flew into IAH on Friday night and stayed at the Doubletree, which is set up with RC. We got up in the morning and got on the bus to Galveston. Bus ride was nice and quick - just over an hour. I think we lucked out. The boarding was really really fast. I was impressed with how quickly everyone was processed, through security and boarded.
We got off the ship a little bit late (30 min.) but fairly easily and the shuttle got to the airport terminal timely.