BACKGROUND INFO: I'm a 60-year-old woman from North Carolina. This was my eighth cruise.
HOTEL INFORMATION: We stayed the night before at the Sleep-Inn, airport, Miami. Our room was clean and comfortable and reasonably priced. They held the room for late arrival as we drove and had to deal with a blown tire on the way. Shuttle to the cruise port is provided for $10/person and we were allowed to leave our car in a safe place for $5/day.
EMBARKATION: Boarding the Divina was the easiest embarkation ever. We left our hotel at about noon, so I guess we were getting to the MSC terminal around 1pm. We breezed right through without a line anywhere. By the time we finished our lunch at the buffet, the cabins were ready.
Even a small area is usually comfortable for one, but I found my cabin design ("interior 1") to make good use of the space allotted. I was especially impressed with the fantastic number of hangers -- no doubling up was necessary. My sister and her husband also had an inside cabin, but theirs was larger, being an "interior 2" classification. They had an extra closet, an upholstered chair, and the cabin was longer and wider by a few feet. As I was by myself, this didn't matter, but might be important if 2 or more people share.