My hubby and I are from Chicago. Flew down to Tampa to pick up my Mom and Step Dad, both in their 80's, then drove to WDW for the night of the 12th. Stayed here because we are DVC members and the room was essentially free. Mom lives on the Gulf Coast and staying at Disney kind of broke up the driving for my husband.

After checking out, then having breakfast, we were on our way and arrived at Park n' Cruise around 1230pm. There were plenty of people to help with our luggage and the bus to the port was waiting. We checked our bags at the port, then got into line for security, then upstairs to check in. We were on the ship in about 15 mins from the time we got off the bus.

The rooms were ready as soon as we boarded. My folks had an accessible room #6324..I went with them to help them get situated and show them that the door to the deck must be opened completely when stepping out, so the small w/c ramp falls down. I didn't want them to accidentally trip on the ramp if the door wasn't open all the way. After getting them settled, we went to our room #9338. We were separated by a couple of decks because Mom & Dad booked months after us and there were no accessible rooms and junior suites on the same deck available. It worked out though because both rooms were just off the starboard elevators and we could be at each others room in just a minute. Read more