Well I live in Florida so we just drove in the day before for the fun of it. We stayed at the Best Western Busch Gardens. They're "All Suites" which is nice and close to Busch Gardens, MOSH, UCF and many other things if you are making a day of it. They served us breakfast Sunday morning and to the port we headed around 11:30AM.

We chose valet service for parking out of simplicity. We arrived to a crowd and everything still moved surprisingly quickly. The porter grabbed our bags (for all 6 of us), I went and paid for the valet, tipped both and we were headed inside. Once inside everything went really smooth and everyone was smiling and courteous. We were on the ship by 12:30PM.

We headed to the Lido deck for lunch. There was a wide variety of food (hamburgers, hot dogs, Italian, Asian, Deli, salads, etc.). We couldn't get in our cabins until 1:00PM so it was great to have lunch available. Kids were already in the pools and playing ping pong, adults were already sunbathing and relaxing. Read more