Background info: We are a group of 3 - myself (28) DH (31) and DD(10). This was mine and DH's third cruise and DD's 2nd.

We booked through a travel agent due to this being a trip paid for by my company and they go through a travel agent for booking. Otherwise, I would have booked it myself. We booked back in March as a 6A guarantee and ended up getting upgraded to an 8A (our first balcony cabin).

We flew in on 8/11 (the day before the cruise) and after some delays in the morning, arrived in FLL around noon. We chose to rent a car and drive up to Orlando for the day and spend the night there. It's about a three hour drive there but we really had no interest in going to the beaches. DD wanted to go to Universal so we chose to do that. We spent the night in a La Quinta on Universal Drive in Orlando which was an excellent hotel. The next morning, we left the hotel around 8:00 to make our way down to FLL again. We brought the rental car back and got on the shuttle back to the airport to meet our transfer over to Port Everglades. Read more