This was our first cruise ever so we went in with eyes wide open not knowing what to expect. We booked our cruise through a local TA over a year and half ago and kindly forgot about it until February of this year when we paid for the cruise in full with our tax return. After some searching I found CC and began the quest for all things Princess. After finding all the great threads and reviews on this site I had somewhat of an idea of what to expect.
We live in Northern California so we decided to make the 10 hr drive to Seattle. Weute were traveling with my parents who were cruising to celebrate their anniversary. Saturday morning arrives bright and early and we leave, 4 am! We arrive in Seattle at about 5 pm and after checking into our motel we decide to drive to the pier and do some recon for the next day. The pier is easy to find and it is impressive to these massive ships for the first time (I believe the Star was docked when we were there on Sat)!
Sunday finally arrives and we head to the pier about 9:30 in the morning. We get to the pier and drop off our luggage and go to park. We thought we were going to park at the terminal in the lots there but we were directed to another lot on armory way. We left my wife and my mother with the bags at the terminal thinking it would just be a minute, after about 20 minutes we get parked and Dad and I hop the shuttle back to the pier, couldn't be easier. We used Seattle Cruise and Park.
Room was clean, bed was hard, steward was prompt and kept things clean.