First off, I've only cruised once before on Disney 7 years ago (4 day cruise). We left from Boston to Seattle ona Friday one day before we departed. We booked the flight ourselves thinking we could get a better deal on air fair, but not sure if this is true or not. We did decide to buy the 1 night hotel and transfers from Princess and couldn't beat the prices for the same hotel (Westin Seattle). Although the buses were backed up a lot at the airport via Gray Line, there just weren't enough buses to get all the people at the airport out. Not sure what happened here, but we waited outside in a line for 45 minutes. The Westin hotel is very nice and comfortable. We arrived early enough to walk around a little, hit the market place by the water and ate at a great little Italian place named: La Fontana Ristorante it's tucked away behind iron gates off the street, you can sit outside in a private courtyard with fountains. Quite, romantic, very good food and not too expensive.

Departure day... No issues really, and it went much smoother than I would have thought. With our transfer deal, we met Princess employees in the hotel lobby at 7:30am Saturday morning (another 20 minute line). Our luggage was picked up from our room and taken to the ship for us. We were on the ship and in our cabin within a couple of hours of arriving at the dock. Plenty of people to help and it was very organized.

The ship is beautiful, rather than describe it I will provide a link to my photos. Our room was nice, it seemed bigger than I would have thought based on the square footage. Plenty of storage for our clothes, my camera gear etc... The balcony was plain but nice, I have no complaints about the mattress or bedding. We are both middle aged 45 - 50 and had no issues at all with the room. Our room steward? was fantastic! Read more