I am just back from my first cruise, myself and my girlfriend sailed on the Freedom of the Seas out of Port Canaveral on the 1st of September. We sailed the Western Carribean itinerary. We are early to mid twenties and we are from Ireland.
Boarding the Freedom was relatively easy, the lines were not long when we boarded at 11.30. In all it took between 30-45 minutes which was perfectly acceptable to use.
The ship itself was magnificent. Spotlessly maintained as evidence by the number of times we saw maintenance crews painting the ship during our week on Board.