This was our seventh cruise with RCCL and we had a blast despite some of our issues with the cruise.
We arrived a day earlier and stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Port and Sea. We had read some negative reviews about it but it was great and super clean. We took their shuttle to the port and got their around 12:15pm. There were no lines and since we are platinum members and had a suite we went to the priority line. We were checked in and on our way in 5 minutes.
Upon entrance to the ship we were directed to the Adventure Ocean staff as we had our two boys with us, ages 7 and 8 and told where to go for lunch.