Here is my review of the Crown Princess 01/20/07-01/27/07.
Our group consisted of my parents (16+ cruises, I think), my brother and his wife (2nd cruise), my sister (5th cruise) and her four year old (3rd cruise) and myself and my DH (7th cruise). First Princess cruise for all of us, except my parents. We all arrived in San Juan the previous day at various times and we all stayed at the Holiday Inn Express.
Embarkation: We arrived at Pier #4 early, around 11:00 a.m. Had porters right there to take our luggage. We waited outside the Pier a short time, maybe about 15 minutes, before they opened the gates and let us in. The lines inside for check-in were relatively short at this time and we waited until about 11:40 until they started checking people in. The only slight glitch to the process was that after letting a dozen or so people through the security screener, myself and my DH were the last two through, they stopped boarding, and also stopped those of us that had already been screened. This lasted about 20-30 minutes. We were all on the ship by 12:30. The one thing I was disappointed with is that when we boarded, the photographers weren't out there yet. No embarkation photo (which is my favorite!), but that was probably our fault for arriving so early. I did see them out there later when we got off the ship for some shopping. I am not exactly sure what time the luggage arrived, but it wasn't much after 2:00. We found our cabins, ate lunch, explored a little bit and by the time we got back down to the cabin, all of the luggage was there.