My fiancE (29) and I (28) on our very first cruise.

PRE-CRUISE -- Arrived in FLL on Saturday night around 8pm via Southwest. SWs luggage carousel was the very first one off the escalators, so after we picked our bags up, we exited the door, turned right and walked a ways up trying to find the Ground Transportation desk. Besides us, there were only 2 other people on the shuttle.

We headed for our destination and after dropping the first person off in Little Haiti, we arrived at the Holiday Inn Port of Miami. It was 8:30pm when we checked in and were given a room on the 10th floor overlooking the port and Bayside Marketplace. The room was huge! We didn't pay for a bayside view room, just a standard room with one queen bed ($130) but we did not complain! We headed across the street to Bayside Marketplace and ended up having dinner at Hooters. Read more