Great R&R trip from the busy northeast! On a quick semi-anniversary trip for 45-44yr olds with kids in college.

We got bumped from a couple flights and ended up having to fly into Tampa on cruise day instead of our original plan to stay at the airport Hyatt in Orlando. We were not happy after all that. We rented a car from Budget one way to Port Canaveral with less than 12hrs notice. Nice clean mid-size for total of about $50 including filling up with gas in Port Canaveral. They had a shuttle van waiting and brought us to embarkation at about 12:15pm. Total trip from Tampa airport to port was much quicker/painless than I expected, about 2hr 15min including gas/liquor stop.

We got through security and check-in in less than 15 minutes and was on board the Magic. The rooms are supposed to be ready at 1:00pm so he headed to Carioca's lunch buffet. Food was ok. Nice selections, hot food was hot and salad, fruit etc, was cold and fresh. Didn't have a great introduction with our server. He had no idea what sparkling water/Perrier/seltzer was? Muddled through with a couple of beers. (16oz aluminum bottles) Read more