Embarkation  Boarding the ship was smooth and EASY! We arrived at the port around noon, the only waiting part was for dropping off the luggage with the porters. Once we were able to pull to the curb and unload everything, we never really waited again. We were on the ship by 12:45 or so.

Our stateroom  Once we arrived on the ship we went straight to our Balcony Stateroom on the 9th Deck. The stateroom was in perfect condition. A very large queen sized bed, fairly good sized bathroom (in fact it was bigger than the bathroom in the suite we stayed in the night before our wedding). Plenty of closet space, drawers and cabinets. I brought some extra over the door storage, but it definitely wasnt needed. As we were going in we met our stateroom attendant who happened to be right outside our room. She was AWESOME!!! (I will elaborate more later on.) In fact, she already knew we were on our honeymoon and called Christina by Mrs. Our last name. Christina was blown away by this. What a GREAT start to the cruise.

The tour  After we dropped our stuff off we had a lot of time before the muster drill and decided it was time for a tour. The ship was incredible. We went down to the Royal Promenade first, they already had a sidewalk greeting set up with free samples of alcohol and free coupons from all the different stores and things to do on the ship. It was a great introduction for people that hadnt cruised before. We got free samples, money off on spa treatments that we planned on doing, coupons to Johnny Rockets, some shopping guidance, and a lot of friendly people truly excited to greet everyone boarding. Next we visited the two theatres on board, these were magnificent theatres and we really looked forward to the shows that they had planned. Now on to the Pool decks where we would spend a lot of time. There were three pools (1 adult and 2 for everyone) and about 8 hot tubs. Read more