Pre-Cruise We stayed at the Westin Long Beach the day prior to our departure (2Nov07). The Westin is very nice and those heavenly beds are to die for! Man! If you cant get a good night's sleep in that bed there is something wrong with you!

Embarkation We headed down to the San Pedro terminal at 1045AM vie Super Shuttle. We had two mini-vans to haul us to the ship. The lead van went directly to the ship but our van headed to the airport! My best friend called me trying to find out where we were because they were already at the ship and we were headed to LAX! I turned our driver around and we finally got to the ship. We unloaded our bags with the porter and headed to check in.

They were passing our embarkation numbers by cabin when we checked in and we were in group four. We waited about 20 minutes and they called our number and we boarded rather quickly! I have to say checking in went rather quickly and we side stepped the obligatory photographer and went directly aboard. Read more