Our back ground: we are 42 & 39 we've been on 10+ cruises with no real loyalty CCL, NCL, RCCL & Princess (except to say that we know Carnival is not for us). We did a similar cruise 2 years ago on Princess.
The Ship:
Embarkation was a smooth as I've ever had. It was less than 10 minutes from taxi drop off to welcome aboard champagne on deck 5.