This review is for the 31 August - 7 September cruise.
Embarkation
Just after 12:00 we arrived and parked at Galveston Park N’ Cruise (highly recommended!!!) across the street from the terminal and rolled our luggage across Harborside Drive to the luggage drop off. We already had our luggage tagged, so while I expected just to drop it off, there was a porter there with his hand out. WTF?
We tried one of the “Virtual Balcony” staterooms that were added earlier this year. We ended up enjoying it much more than we thought that we would. It’s basically a vary large HDTV stood up on edge. The image shown is from an aft-facing camera from the stern of the ship. This is the only view available. There is a remote control that is for power on/off, volume up/down, mute. At night we left the system on as we drifted off to the white noise of the sea. Very restful.